Ann Marie Moylan

As a registered nurse, Ann Marie Moylan was always eager to provide nurturing care to the sick, whether in one of the management positions she held at Southampton Hospital and other health care facilities, or simply as a loving aunt who ladled out chicken noodle soup for an ailing niece. 

After graduating from Pierson High School, the lifelong resident of Sag Harbor earned a bachelor of science degree in nursing from the College of New Rochelle and later a master’s degree in nursing administration from New York University.  

Her most recent job was as a consultant for the medical records company Allscripts, but much of Ms. Moylan’s early career was focused on hospital care. Her first job was as a nurse manager of the pulmonary unit at New York Hospital. She then worked as a nurse manager at Southampton Hospital before becoming the director of nursing at St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center in Smithtown. It was at St. Catherine’s that Ms. Moylan died of complications from esophageal cancer on Feb. 16. She was 53. 

Born on Aug. 9, 1964, in Southampton to William Harry Moylan and the former Ruth Ward, Ms. Moylan was a member of the Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Society, the American Association of Nurse Executives, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, and the American Nursing Informatics Association. She “wanted to make a difference in health care and she did just that, going to great lengths to achieve her goals, advocating for patients and lobbying that all nurses receive a bachelor’s degree, because she wanted the best for everyone,” her family wrote.

She never married but she was a fixture in the lives of the three daughters of her surviving sister, Theresa M. Samot. “It didn’t take much for the nurse in Ann to come out,” said her niece Colleen Samot in the eulogy she gave at the funeral Mass at St. Andrew’s Catholic Church in Sag Harbor. She played many pivotal roles in the family. When Colleen and her sisters, Kathleen and Mary, were growing up, “Ann would be a clown for our birthdays, a magician when we got older, and Santa Claus on Christmas morning,” recalled Colleen. 

Ms. Moylan was an active member of the St. Andrew’s community whose strong faith informed all that she did, her family said. 

Visiting hours were held at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in Sag Harbor on Feb. 18. The next day, the Rev. Peter Devaraj officiated at the funeral ceremony and burial at St. Andrew’s Cemetery. The family has suggested donations to Cormaria Retreat House in Sag Harbor.