Bachman, Joleen Karen (1935-2019)
BACHMAN, CLAPPER, HOLT, VISEDO, DIRKS, REICKS, DERNER, COOK, SMART
Posted By: Paul Nagy (email)
Date: 5/18/2021 at 17:36:22
Joleen Karen Bachman
July 1, 1935 - May 4, 2019Surrounded by her family, Joleen Bachman, age 83, passed away peacefully at home in Early, Iowa, on Saturday, May 4, 2019, following a brief illness.
Joleen was born on July 1, 1935, to Gladys “Bunny” (Holt) and Jack Clapper, of Auburn, Iowa. In 1952, she married Ed Bachman. Together, they created a family with nine children. Her marriage, however, did not last.
Following her divorce, Joleen started her college career. In 1981, she earned an Associates of Arts Degree at Iowa Central Community College (ICCC) in Fort Dodge, Iowa, and in 1983, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Communication at Buena Vista College in Storm Lake, Iowa. During that time, she entered a six-month study lecture program at the Taipei Language Institute in Tai Chung, Taiwan.
This experience led her to return on two more occasions to teach English and study the Mandarin Language. While there, she studied under a master of the Chi Quong martial arts, becoming proficient in teaching it herself. For many years, she taught it as a course for the Buena Vista University Interim Program.
In 1985, Joleen completed her master’s degree in Holistic Studies and Healing Arts at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She, then, furthered her education in 1989 at the Kellogg Leadership Institute of Continuing Education at the University of Georgia. Her proudest accomplishment in her educational career came with her earning a Ph.D. of Higher Education in Adult Development at the Union Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1991.
Professionally, she served both as a teacher and as a Director for Buena Vista University, for Upper Iowa University in Madison, Wisconsin, and for Hamilton College in Mason City, Iowa. After retiring in 2004, she taught online classes for the next sixteen years for Kaplan University, retiring completely at age 83 in 2018.
A remarkable woman, Joleen had a passion for sharing her knowledge and making a difference in the lives of her students. Moreover, as a teacher, mentor, women’s advocate, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, and friend, she inspired many over the years with her passion for reading, sense of adventure, and zest for life. She will be dearly missed.
Joleen is survived by her six sons: Lane, of Lake City, Brett (Barb), of Fort Dodge, Todd, of Sac City, Scott (Claudine), of Charlotte, North Carolina, Colin, of Miami, Florida, and Tony, of Lake View; her two daughters: Pam Visedo, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Cindy Bachman, of Des Moines, Iowa; fifteen grandchildren; fourteen great grandchildren; her sisters: Sheri Dirks, of Breda, Kay Reicks, of Manson, and Peggy Derner, of Lake View; her brothers, Jim Clapper of Boston, Massachusetts, and Chuck Clapper, of Lake View; and a son-in-law, Scott Cook, of Lake City; as well as by many nieces, nephews, and extended family members.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Bunny and Jack; her daughter, Diane Cook; her former husband, Ed Bachman; her sister, Nancy Smart; and her brother Neil Clapper.
Farber & Otteman Funeral Homes & Cremation Center, Sac City, Iowa, 2019.
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