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Joan Vivian Baesemann
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April 4, 1926 ~ July 20, 2012 |
June 23, 2012 |
Joan Vivian Baesemann, 86, passed away on July
20, 2012, at the Boundary County Nursing Home in
Bonners Ferry. Funeral services will be held at
at 10 a.m. the Bonners Funeral Homeon Saturday
July 28. Final interment will be held at the
Baesemann Cemetery in Ribs Fall, Wisconsin, in
late September.
Joan V. Baesemann was born April 4, 1926, in
Wausau, Wisconsin, to Norman and Viola (Koch)
Warner. She went to a one room school until the
eighth grade. She opted to stay home and work on
the farm instead of going to town to live and go
to high school.
She married Hilbert Baesemann in 1945 in Wausau.
She was a stay at home mom and house wife. She
was an excellent seamstress and made most of her
children's clothing and took in sewing for
others.
Later in life she went to work as a waitress,
cook/matron at the Marathon County, Wisconsin,
jail and and later as nurses aide. She moved to
Bonners Ferry in 1977 with daughter Debbie to be
near daughter Penny. She worked at the Restorium
and at the Academy of the Rockies and milked
cows before her retirement.
After her retirement she taught hand knitting to
the 4H kids and taught in her home and at
several businesses in Bonners Ferry. Her
knitting is in about half of the United States
and several foreign countries. In her later
years she learned to do counted cross stitching
and her needle work looks like photos.
A special thank you to the staff at BCH ECF and
Dr. Botkins for the wonderful care and love you
showed mom!
She was proceeded in death by her parents,
daughter Peggy, bother Morgan Warner, brother
Russell Warner, son in law Larry Richards.
She is survived by her children John (JoAnn)
Baesemann, Prescott Valley Arizona, Bruce
(Paula) Baesemann, Tulare, California; Penny
Burch, Kootenai, Idaho; Pam Deedon, Colorado;
and Debbie Richards of Bonners Ferry; sister
Nona Vickers of Ohio and sister in law Delores
Warner. She is survived by nine grand children,
nine great grand children. numerous nieces,
nephew and cousins.
Family and friends are invited to sign Joan's
book at
www.bonnersferryfuneralhome.com.
Arrangements are entrusted to the care of
Bonners Ferry Funeral Home. |
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