Edna D. Lalli, 83, nursing professor

Edna Davila Lalli, 83, a nursing professor at Hahnemann University from 1974 to 1990, died on Tuesday, April 6, of complications from a fall at her Blue Bell home at Manor Care in King of Prussia, a nursing and rehabilitation center.

In 1985, the School of Allied Health Professions at Hahnemann gave Dr. Lalli its Distinguished Faculty Award.

In 1989, the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation, which recognizes college faculty in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, gave her its Award for Distinguished Teaching.

Born in Norristown, she graduated from high school in New Holland, Lancaster County, in 1944 and from the Montgomery Hospital School of Nursing in 1947.

Dr. Lalli earned a bachelor's degree in nursing education at the University of Pennsylvania in 1951, a master's in education there in 1955, and a doctorate in education at Temple University in 1980.

From 1951 she was an instructor at the Montgomery Hospital School of Nursing and from 1974 she was a professor in the physiology and biophysics department at Hahnemann, said her daughter, Loren.

After retiring in 1990, Dr. Lalli became professor emerita and in 1996 taught in the biology department at Montgomery County Community College.

In 1968, the Montgomery Hospital School of Nursing gave her its Anna F. Young Award for outstanding teaching.

She was a member of the National Honor Society of Nursing, the National League for Nursing, the National Health Science Honorary Society, and the National Association for Allied Health Professionals.

Dr. Lalli's husband, Michael, died in 1996.

A viewing was set for 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Saturday, April 17, at the Boyd-Horrox Funeral Home, 200 W. Germantown Pike, Norristown, where a memorial service will follow. Burial will be in George Washington Memorial Park, Plymouth Meeting.