* Wanda was very active in findagrave and will be missed by many. At the time of her death she had created over 46,000 findagrave memorials.
OBITUARY: Wanda J. Huisman, January 2, 1949 ~ March 13, 2019 - reprinted from the Rausch-Lundeen Funeral Home website
Wanda Jeanette Huisman, age 70, of Vietnam passed away on Wednesday, March 13, 2019, at the Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville, IL.
She was born in Barron County, WI, the second child of Wendell and Norma (Stearns) Huisman. Wanda was raised in the Prairie Farm, WI area and began serving God when she was about 12 years old. She graduated from Prairie Farm High School in 1967 and graduated from Stout State University, Menomonie, WI with a degree in Home Economics in 1971. She then enrolled in a Red Cross program that sent women to Vietnam to help the service men. She was there for about 6 months until the fighting intensified in the area she was in and had to return home. She then began her 30-year teaching career in Michigan, and later moved to California and then to Texas. She continued her education while teaching and received a Masters Degree in Counseling. In 2002 she had the opportunity to return to Vietnam and continue teaching there until she retired in 2009. She continued to keep Vietnam as her home base while she travelled to different countries and came back to the U.S. to visit family and friends and pursue her hobby of genealogy. She had an adventurous nature as she travelled around to different countries, but she was always concerned about the welfare of the friends and workers she met everywhere. She loved to share her experiences and her love and faith in God with others, even in her last days in the hospital.
Wanda was preceded in death by her parents, grandparents: Mary and Martin Stearns & Samuel and Harmka Huisman, sister: Elaine Topinka and numerous aunts and uncles.
She is survived by four sisters and one brother: Kathryn Huisman of Sacramento, CA, Ronald (Kathy) Huisman of Las Vegas, NV, Lavonne (David) Stipp of Cornell, IL, Loretta Darby of Pell City, AL and Phyllis Moyo of California, as well as many nieces and nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews, three aunts: Ruby Stearns, Rosie Huisman and Ellyn Naef, one uncle: Lyle Stearns, as well as many cousins.
Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, March 23rd at the Prairie Farm Community Center in Prairie Farm, WI with Robert Eberhardt and Travis Wagner officiating & interment following in the Glenwood Cemetery in the Town of Dallas. Visitation will be held from 4-8 p.m. Friday at the Rausch-Lundeen Funeral Home in Dallas & also for the hour prior to services at the community center on Saturday. Arrangements are with Rausch-Lundeen Funeral Homes, Dallas & Cameron.
OBITUARY: Wanda J. Huisman, January 2, 1949 ~ March 13, 2019 - reprinted from the Rausch-Lundeen Funeral Home website
Wanda Jeanette Huisman, age 70, of Vietnam passed away on Wednesday, March 13, 2019, at the Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville, IL.
She was born in Barron County, WI, the second child of Wendell and Norma (Stearns) Huisman. Wanda was raised in the Prairie Farm, WI area and began serving God when she was about 12 years old. She graduated from Prairie Farm High School in 1967 and graduated from Stout State University, Menomonie, WI with a degree in Home Economics in 1971. She then enrolled in a Red Cross program that sent women to Vietnam to help the service men. She was there for about 6 months until the fighting intensified in the area she was in and had to return home. She then began her 30-year teaching career in Michigan, and later moved to California and then to Texas. She continued her education while teaching and received a Masters Degree in Counseling. In 2002 she had the opportunity to return to Vietnam and continue teaching there until she retired in 2009. She continued to keep Vietnam as her home base while she travelled to different countries and came back to the U.S. to visit family and friends and pursue her hobby of genealogy. She had an adventurous nature as she travelled around to different countries, but she was always concerned about the welfare of the friends and workers she met everywhere. She loved to share her experiences and her love and faith in God with others, even in her last days in the hospital.
Wanda was preceded in death by her parents, grandparents: Mary and Martin Stearns & Samuel and Harmka Huisman, sister: Elaine Topinka and numerous aunts and uncles.
She is survived by four sisters and one brother: Kathryn Huisman of Sacramento, CA, Ronald (Kathy) Huisman of Las Vegas, NV, Lavonne (David) Stipp of Cornell, IL, Loretta Darby of Pell City, AL and Phyllis Moyo of California, as well as many nieces and nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews, three aunts: Ruby Stearns, Rosie Huisman and Ellyn Naef, one uncle: Lyle Stearns, as well as many cousins.
Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, March 23rd at the Prairie Farm Community Center in Prairie Farm, WI with Robert Eberhardt and Travis Wagner officiating & interment following in the Glenwood Cemetery in the Town of Dallas. Visitation will be held from 4-8 p.m. Friday at the Rausch-Lundeen Funeral Home in Dallas & also for the hour prior to services at the community center on Saturday. Arrangements are with Rausch-Lundeen Funeral Homes, Dallas & Cameron.
* Wanda was very active in findagrave and will be missed by many. At the time of her death she had created over 46,000 findagrave memorials.
OBITUARY: Wanda J. Huisman, January 2, 1949 ~ March 13, 2019 - reprinted from the Rausch-Lundeen Funeral Home website
Wanda Jeanette Huisman, age 70, of Vietnam passed away on Wednesday, March 13, 2019, at the Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville, IL.
She was born in Barron County, WI, the second child of Wendell and Norma (Stearns) Huisman. Wanda was raised in the Prairie Farm, WI area and began serving God when she was about 12 years old. She graduated from Prairie Farm High School in 1967 and graduated from Stout State University, Menomonie, WI with a degree in Home Economics in 1971. She then enrolled in a Red Cross program that sent women to Vietnam to help the service men. She was there for about 6 months until the fighting intensified in the area she was in and had to return home. She then began her 30-year teaching career in Michigan, and later moved to California and then to Texas. She continued her education while teaching and received a Masters Degree in Counseling. In 2002 she had the opportunity to return to Vietnam and continue teaching there until she retired in 2009. She continued to keep Vietnam as her home base while she travelled to different countries and came back to the U.S. to visit family and friends and pursue her hobby of genealogy. She had an adventurous nature as she travelled around to different countries, but she was always concerned about the welfare of the friends and workers she met everywhere. She loved to share her experiences and her love and faith in God with others, even in her last days in the hospital.
Wanda was preceded in death by her parents, grandparents: Mary and Martin Stearns & Samuel and Harmka Huisman, sister: Elaine Topinka and numerous aunts and uncles.
She is survived by four sisters and one brother: Kathryn Huisman of Sacramento, CA, Ronald (Kathy) Huisman of Las Vegas, NV, Lavonne (David) Stipp of Cornell, IL, Loretta Darby of Pell City, AL and Phyllis Moyo of California, as well as many nieces and nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews, three aunts: Ruby Stearns, Rosie Huisman and Ellyn Naef, one uncle: Lyle Stearns, as well as many cousins.
Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, March 23rd at the Prairie Farm Community Center in Prairie Farm, WI with Robert Eberhardt and Travis Wagner officiating & interment following in the Glenwood Cemetery in the Town of Dallas. Visitation will be held from 4-8 p.m. Friday at the Rausch-Lundeen Funeral Home in Dallas & also for the hour prior to services at the community center on Saturday. Arrangements are with Rausch-Lundeen Funeral Homes, Dallas & Cameron.
OBITUARY: Wanda J. Huisman, January 2, 1949 ~ March 13, 2019 - reprinted from the Rausch-Lundeen Funeral Home website
Wanda Jeanette Huisman, age 70, of Vietnam passed away on Wednesday, March 13, 2019, at the Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville, IL.
She was born in Barron County, WI, the second child of Wendell and Norma (Stearns) Huisman. Wanda was raised in the Prairie Farm, WI area and began serving God when she was about 12 years old. She graduated from Prairie Farm High School in 1967 and graduated from Stout State University, Menomonie, WI with a degree in Home Economics in 1971. She then enrolled in a Red Cross program that sent women to Vietnam to help the service men. She was there for about 6 months until the fighting intensified in the area she was in and had to return home. She then began her 30-year teaching career in Michigan, and later moved to California and then to Texas. She continued her education while teaching and received a Masters Degree in Counseling. In 2002 she had the opportunity to return to Vietnam and continue teaching there until she retired in 2009. She continued to keep Vietnam as her home base while she travelled to different countries and came back to the U.S. to visit family and friends and pursue her hobby of genealogy. She had an adventurous nature as she travelled around to different countries, but she was always concerned about the welfare of the friends and workers she met everywhere. She loved to share her experiences and her love and faith in God with others, even in her last days in the hospital.
Wanda was preceded in death by her parents, grandparents: Mary and Martin Stearns & Samuel and Harmka Huisman, sister: Elaine Topinka and numerous aunts and uncles.
She is survived by four sisters and one brother: Kathryn Huisman of Sacramento, CA, Ronald (Kathy) Huisman of Las Vegas, NV, Lavonne (David) Stipp of Cornell, IL, Loretta Darby of Pell City, AL and Phyllis Moyo of California, as well as many nieces and nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews, three aunts: Ruby Stearns, Rosie Huisman and Ellyn Naef, one uncle: Lyle Stearns, as well as many cousins.
Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, March 23rd at the Prairie Farm Community Center in Prairie Farm, WI with Robert Eberhardt and Travis Wagner officiating & interment following in the Glenwood Cemetery in the Town of Dallas. Visitation will be held from 4-8 p.m. Friday at the Rausch-Lundeen Funeral Home in Dallas & also for the hour prior to services at the community center on Saturday. Arrangements are with Rausch-Lundeen Funeral Homes, Dallas & Cameron.
