Deceased Classmate: Denyse Storey
Date Of Birth: 6-15-1953
Date Deceased: 10-21-2013
Age at Death: 60
Cause of Death: Complications related from a fall in her home that happened 10 weeks before her death.
Classmate City:
Classmate State: IL
Classmate Country: USA
Survived By: Her husband Wayne, son John, twin sister Anyse Storey-Taylor, brother-in-law Gerry Taylor and father John.

Article by Joan Giangrasse Kates from Chicago Tribune on Nov. 1, 2013 titled "Dr. Denyse J. Storey, former head of surgery at St. Anthony Hospital, 1953-2013." Dr. Denyse J. Storey, the former chairman of the department of surgery at St. Anthony Hospital in Chicago's Lawndale neighborhood, spent more than a week in Jamaica with her husband providing free medical care to the poor in 2004. "We walked up the side of a mountain and saw a line of people about a mile long, and we got right down to work," said her husband, Dr. Wayne Williamson, a Chicago-area internist. "At one point I looked up to see where Denyse was and there she was working as fast as she could and doing what she did best — tending to her patients." Dr. Storey, 60, died Monday, Oct. 21, in St. Francis Hospital in Evanston of complications related to a recent fall in her Evanston home. Dr. Storey specialized in surgeries involving breast diseases and performed many lumpectomies and mastectomies. Early in her career, as head of the emergency department at St. Anthony's Hospital, she was often called upon to do surgeries on victims of violent street crimes. "She was the type of surgeon that performed well in those life-and-death situations," her husband said. "She was steady and sure and calm in the middle of a crisis." "When I think of Denyse, I remember what a truly gifted surgeon she was with wonderful hands," said former colleague Dr. Tyla Courtney, now president of the medical staff at St. Anthony. "Her technique was excellent. Every patient was important to her, and she had a way of making them feel that way." Courtney recounted a moment many years ago, just before midnight on New Year's Eve, when Dr. Storey was caring for a patient that had just been admitted to the emergency room with multiple wounds. "She was trying to determine the extent of his injuries and whether he should undergo surgery immediately," Courtney recalled. "It'd been a long, hard day for all of us, but especially for Denyse because she'd been working literally nonstop since early that morning and was supposed to be headed home. She looked up and without hesitation said, 'I'm going to operate. Let's get him into surgery.'" According to her husband, Dr. Storey scaled back her medical career in 2007, in part, to begin home schooling their son, John, who is now in his late teens, and she retired in 2009. "She felt home-schooling was a way of providing our son with the best possible education," her husband said. "She found it gratifying, and as for our son, well, he looks back on that time and appreciates everything his mother did for him." Dr. Storey, whose identical twin sister, Anyse Storey-Taylor, is a physician in Ohio, was born in Cleveland and raised in Cleveland Heights and Shaker Heights, Ohio, graduating from Cleveland Heights High School in 1971. After receiving her undergraduate degree from Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass., Dr. Storey graduated from the University of Cincinnati's College of Medicine in 1980. She completed her surgical residency at Mount Sinai Hospital in Chicago in 1985 and became a fellow of the American College of Surgeons in 1989. In addition to being an attending general surgeon at St. Anthony Hospital from 1985 until her retirement in 2009, she was chair of the emergency department from 1988 to 1994 and co-chair of the department of surgery from 1994 to 1999. According to Courtney, when Dr. Storey became the chairman of the department of surgery at St. Anthony's in 1999, a position she held until 2007, she was the first African-American to be appointed to that position at the hospital. "She earned every title and accolade she ever received," Courtney said. "She was the best of the best." Dr. Storey, who also had a passion for travel and art and filled her home with eclectic works of new artists she discovered, also was on staff at Sts. Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center in Chicago, where she was chief of surgery in 2005, and St. Francis Hospital in Evanston. In addition to her husband and twin sister, Dr. Storey is survived by her son, John Storey Williamson, and her father, John Henry Storey.