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The Dieringer Sun Family
Legacy
In 2014, David and Jeannie Sun welcomed the birth of their
Mother Noella Dieringer, OSF, first grandchild, Duke Michael Sun. As a precautionary
was the first administrator of measure, baby Duke received care in Marian’s Neonatal
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Intensive Care Unit (NICU). New grandparents David and
Hospital. Remembered as a Jeannie were touched as they witnessed the high level of
natural leader and catalyst care delivered to Marian’s smallest and most vulnerable
Mother Noella Dieringer
of strength, Mother Noella’s patients, moving them to recently make a major gift in
legendary service lives on support of Marian’s neonatal services.
as her nieces Sister Angela Dieringer, OSF, and Sister Norberta
Dieringer, OSF, continue her healing work.

Olivera Family

Growing up in Santa Maria, Joe and Jean Olivera remember
the opening of Sisters’ Hospital when they were children. Joe
served in World War II and after being severely injured during
the Battle of Saipan in the South Pacific, he returned to Santa
Maria. In the years following, the young couple began their
family in Santa Maria and all four of their children were born
at Sisters’ Hospital.

David and Jeannie Sun

Michael Fabella

Just weeks after his high school graduation in the summer of
1962, Michael Fabella began working at Sisters’ Hospital. This
year, he celebrates 53 years of service to the medical center
and has cemented his mark in Marian’s history books as the
longest serving employee. To commemorate this historic
achievement, the medical center’s maintenance building is
named in his honor.
Jean Olivera with her two-day-old daughter Joan at Sisters’ Hospital in 1946.

The Olivera family, 1982 Joe Olivera, WWII Michael Fabella, 2015
1987

2012 Marian, in 2015 Marian opens its
collaboration with Central new Cardiac Interventional
Coast Medical Oncology, Hybrid Suite as part of
opens Mission Hope Cancer the Marian Heart Center
Center, the first integrated Expansion Project.
oncology facility on the
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