Joan Hunsader

Joan Hunsader

"And her tongue went on and on."
Annual Staff 3,4; Journalism 3,4; Student Forum 3,4; F.H. A. 2,3; Latin Club 3,4; Pep Club 1,2,3,4; Tournaments: Band, State Music, Solo Ensemble 1,2,3,4; Forensics 1,2, 3,4; Music Clinic 2; Band & Pep Band 1,2,3,4; Science Club 2,3; Class Play 3.

After graduation, Joan attended St. Mary's School of Nursing in Milwaukee from 1964 to 1967. After Nursing School, she worked at St. Mary's Hospital, served in the U.S. Air Force, and then went to St. Michael Hospital in Milwaukee, where she worked until 1986. Joan and Dudley Blank, a pharmacist at St. Mary's, were married on September 11, 1971 in Algoma. We visited England, Germany and Switzerland on our honeymoon. We built a home in Cedarburg in the summer of 1972. Our first child, Gretchen, was born in February, 1973. In 1974, Joan got back into music when she joined the Cedarburg Civic Band. Two years later she was a co-founder of the Lakeshore Symphonic Band. Steven was born in March of 1976 and Jocelyn in May of 1979. In May of 1982 we returned to Germany for three weeks with nine year old Gretchen and six year old Steven. Gretchen died of meningitis in March of 1983 following a nine hour illness. Jeff was born three years later in March, 1986. Joan died three days later of a blood disorder that appeared hours after Jeff's birth. I remarried, and Janet and I have a 14 year old daughter named Erica