Judith Lee “Julee” (Wissler) Transier (2022)

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Posted By: Volunteer
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:04:36

Arizona Online Cremations
Sun City, Arizona
January 2022

Judith Lee “Julee” Transier passed away unexpectedly from a COPD event on Wednesday, January 12, 2022 at Honor-Health Deer Valley hospital in Phoenix. Born in Des Moines, Iowa on July 16, 1942, she was the daughter of James Donald and Helen Veronica (Ellis) Wissler.

Except for a year in Indiana, Julee spent her youth in Des Moines and attended the University of Iowa, where she received a bachelor’s degree in nursing in August 1964. On September 4, 1964, she married Kent G. Transier, in Des Moines, whom she had met at college. She first worked as a nurse at the University Hospital in Iowa City and then left for Arizona in August 1965 when her husband accepted a job in Phoenix. During her first year in Phoenix she was employed at a small community hospital before quitting to raise a family. When the children were old enough she started working at Honeywell as an Occupational Health Nurse. She left Honeywell for a similar position at U. S. West and then worked as a Case Manager at Traveler’s Insurance. She retired in October 2000.

Her favorite activities were playing bingo, card games and dominoes with good friends, going to Las Vegas, and spending time with her extended family on the Oregon coast every summer. She was an avid reader (mostly of true crime stories) and a talented scrapbooker; she made dozens of beautiful scrapbooks for her grandchildren. One of the highlights of Julee’s retirement years was finding her biological grandmother through DNA matching. Julee’s mother had been adopted and had no knowledge of her parents’ families. In 2018, Julee got a DNA match that led to meeting several of her thirty new first cousins during a trip to Tennessee.

Julee was preceded in death by her parents and two sisters, Molly and Susan. She is survived by her husband, three sons, John (Kim), Michael (Brenda) and David (Carolyn), and six grandchildren, Kenneth, Sarah, Spencer, Abby, Jane, and Ethan.

No services are planned. Memorial contributions may be sent to St. Jude’s Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee. Her ashes were laid to rest in the Welty Cemetery in Webster Township where her pioneer Wissler and Schnellbacher ancestors are buried.

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