Amy Jane Pommer; Health Facilities Evaluator

Amy Jane Pommer, a health facilities evaluator, died Friday after a lengthy illness. She was 47.

Pommer was born Amy Jane Van Houten on July 6, 1952, in Passaic, N.J., where she attended school.

After graduating from Felician College in New Jersey with a degree in nursing, she moved to California. She worked at Santa Monica Hospital as a registered nurse, while studying heath care management. She received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Redlands and became a head nurse in the hospital’s recovery room.

In 1986, she married Eric Pommer and moved to Ventura. She began working in area hospitals, primarily Community Memorial Hospital in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit. She also was a clinical manager at Ventura County Medical Center.

Most recently, she worked for the state Department of Health Services as a health facilities evaluator.

Pommer once served as president of a local chapter of Post Anesthesia Nurses Assn. of California. She was also a member of the Gold Coast Concert Chorus, with whom she sang at Carnegie Hall.

She was a longtime member of the First Baptist Church of Ventura.

Pommer is survived by her husband and their son, Peter John; her mother, Charlotte Schmidt of Ventura; and a brother, John Charles Van Houten of Vermont.

Services are scheduled at 10 a.m. Saturday at the First Baptist Church of Ventura, with the Rev. Don Loomer officiating.

Contributions may be made in her memory to the Cancer Center of Ventura County.

Arrangements are under the direction of the Ted Mayr Funeral Home in Ventura.