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Gene Puskar
c o mmun i ty
Ten years ago, a community came together to ensure that Grace DeIuliis, center with her husband, Joe,
survived. Some of the people who helped save her life are police officer Richard Staaf, pastor Terry Timm,
police officer Mike Welsh and paramedic Doug Widmer.

G race DeIuliis doesn’t remem-
ber everything about the
day she died, but she
knows it took dozens of
Mt. Lebanon people to
bring her back. The Woodland Drive resi-
dent took her three daughters, Sarah, 7;
Victoria, 3; and Elizabeth, 1, to Beverly
Heights United Presbyterian Church on
January 31, 1999. As the then 32-year-
old stepped into the pew, her heart
stopped beating, and she collapsed.

Terry Timm, associate pastor of the
church at the time, was on the pulpit, and
everyone was singing the hymn “Holy,
Holy, Holy,” when he was startled by a
“thud” from the pews. Although DeIuliis
had attended some Bible studies, and one
daughter was in the preschool at Beverly
Heights, this was her first service there.

Timm immediately stopped the service.

Parishioner Mimi Staaf called 911. Other
churchgoers took the three girls out of the
sanctuary and kept them occupied. Dentist
Jeff Frye, pediatrician Bob Argentine and
nurse Patti Timm, Terry’s wife, began CPR.

“We prayed for this visitor among us,” Terry
Timm says.

The call came into the dispatch center
as a seizure, says Mt. Lebanon police
Cpl. Richard Staaf, Mimi’s husband, who
was on duty at the time. He and Cpl. Mike
Welsh responded to the scene. Staaf used
the portable automated external defibrilla-
tor on DeIuliis until the ambulance arrived.

“She was out,” Staaf says. “She was
62 mtl • march 2009
unconscious. No pulse. She was dead,
as far as I was concerned.” But still, Staaf
kept hoping the efforts would work.

Medical Rescue Team South Authority
medics Dave Buddemeyer and Doug
Widmer were first on the scene. DeIuliius
was rushed to St. Clair Hospital and then
transferred to Mercy, where she was in
a coma for a couple of days. But thanks
to the quick actions of everyone who
responded, she survived. DeIuliis says her
energy level has never been the same,
and she has had an internal defibrillator
implanted to keep her heart beating prop-
erly. But she is well and is grateful for the
help of dozens of people. The experience
moved Joe DeIuliis so much that he says
he decided to run for commissioner in the
hopes of paying forward the kind acts. He
now represents the Third Ward.

“We are so grateful that we are so
blessed, that our family is intact, that I can
still be a wife to my husband and a mother
to my children, and I can make a positive
impact on my community,” Grace DeIuliis
says. “That event so plainly illustrated for
us the great character of our community,
with respect to the church, the faith of the
congregation to pray for my life, the resi-
dents who provided meals for our family
for months after the event, and the police
and ambulance service. It was literally a
miracle to have all these pieces in place
at the moment I needed it. I have always
wanted to say ‘Thank you.’”
—LAURA PACE LILLEY