Theresa "Terri" Lohman: Nurse put patients’ needs before her own

Theresa "Terri" Lohman, a nurse practitioner whose career spanned at least 30 years, died June 14 in her Maumee home. She was 74.

She died after a long bout with cancer, her husband of 20 years, Gerald Lohman, said.

Mrs. Lohman was a highly knowledgeable and passionate nurse who once interrupted her oncologist’s explanation of her lab results to answer a phone call from one of her own patients.

Mrs. Lohman, who held a bachelor’s and two master’s degrees in nursing, retired around 2014 after several years as a nurse practitioner at Dr. Jack Siebenaler’s family practice in Oregon.

Before that, she was at different times a registered nurse at Hutzel Women's Hospital in Detroit and a certified nurse midwife at what is now Henry Ford Jackson Hospital in Jackson, Mich.

In retirement, Mrs. Lohman worked part time as a nurse practitioner at various clinics and doctors’ offices in the greater Toledo area, most recently at Great Lakes Urgent Care on Dixie Highway in Perrysburg, until retiring permanently in 2023, when her health started to fail.

“She was loving. She was very thoughtful and careful. And she was very analytical, especially when diagnosing a patient,” Mr. Lohman said.

In her free time, Mrs. Lohman liked to read medical journals.

From around 2000 until about 2020, she also volunteered to sing with Sweet Adelines International’s Pride of Toledo and Scioto Valley chapters.

Born June 5, 1950, in Mt. Clemens, Mich., to Nina and Leonard LaJeunesse, she graduated from a local Catholic high school and later got a bachelor’s degree in nursing from a Detroit-area college.

Mrs. Lohman also held a University of Michigan master’s degree in nurse-midwifery and a Medical College of Ohio master’s degree in nursing with a specialization in family nurse practitioner concentration. She later pursued a doctorate in nursing practice from Robert Morris University near Pittsburgh.

Her hobbies included reading novels, cross-stitching, and traveling.

She was a member of the Maumee chapter of Business Network International.

Mrs. Lohman was preceded in death by an infant son and a brother.

Along with her husband Gerald, surviving are her son, Robert Duchon, and two grandchildren.

Services will be private. Arrangements are by Maison-Dardenne-Walker Funeral Home in Maumee.

The family suggests tributes to Cherry Street Mission or Golden Retriever Rescue Resource.