Anne Sengbusch, 87, the first dean of the UB School of Nursing, died Nov. 8 in Millard Fillmore Hospital. A graveside service was held Nov. 11 in Woodlawn Cemetery, Canandaigua.

Sengbusch moved to Buffalo from Vermont in 1927 to attend the E. J. Meyer Memorial Hospital School of Nursing. She earned bachelor of science and master of education degrees from UB and did graduate work at Columbia University. She was active in the League for Nursing Education in New York State and was a charter member of the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Nursing, serving as an officer for a number of years. She spent nine years as a member of the state Board of Examiners of Nursing.

Sengbusch was appointed in 1935 as the first faculty member of what became in 1936, the Division of Nursing in the School of Medicine. The head of the Division of Nursing was the dean of the medical school and Sengbusch was named assistant to the dean.

When the School of Nursing was established in 1940, Sengbusch was named dean. She introduced a basic program in nursing in 1951, a four-year program of science, academics and nursing, leading to state registration. She held the post as dean of the nursing school from 1940 to 1965 and retired as professor of nursing in 1968.