Joan Elizabeth Wallin 1928 - 2008

WALLIN, ANDERSON, CARLSON

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 5/8/2019 at 20:54:48

Sioux City Journal
16 May 2008

Joan Elizabeth Wallin, 79, of Sioux City died of cancer Tuesday, May 13, 2008, at her residence.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Mark Lutheran Church in Storm Lake, Iowa, with the Rev. Connie Spitzack officiating. Graveside services will be 3 p.m. Saturday in Memorial Park Cemetery, Sioux City. Visitation with the family will be 6 to 8 p.m. today at Fratzke and Jensen Funeral Home in Storm Lake.

Joan was born Aug. 12, 1928, at home in Porter, Ind., the daughter of Alec F. and Esther M. (Anderson) Carlson. She was baptized and confirmed at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Porter. At the age of nine, she lost her parents and went to live with her aunt and uncle.

She married the Rev. Dr. Ralph Albert Wallin on Dec. 27, 1950, in Chesterton, Ind. He was the love of her life for 47 years and had been sorely missed these last 11 years of her life. She graduated from Augustana College in Rock Island, Ill., in 1950, where she received an bachelor of arts degree. She received her master's of art degree in special education from Morningside College in Sioux City in 1980.

She taught school in various places including Moline, Ill., Thunder Bay, Ontario, and Chicago, Ill. While living in Sioux City from 1977 to 1987, she first taught school in Winnebago, Neb., then at West Middle School in Sioux City. After moving to Storm Lake in 1988, she taught at the Fonda Community School in Fonda, Iowa before retiring in 1994.

She was a member of St. Mark Lutheran Church in Storm Lake, until recently, when she relocated to Sioux City, transferring her membership to St. Mark Lutheran Church there. She was actively involved in many organizations, committees, clubs and volunteer work. She loved to entertain, travel, garden, read, play board games and complete crossword puzzles. She cared deeply about education and was an advocate of special needs children. She will be greatly missed.

Survivors include two sons, Dr. Stephen Wallin and his wife, Dr. Marta Wallin of Pueblo, Colo., and Ronald Wallin of Sioux City; a daughter and her husband, Rebecca and Richard Schwartz of Sioux City; six grandchildren, Sylvia and Bruce Wallin, Crissy Schwartz-Dangerfield, Michael and Leah Schwartz and Brandon J. Grant; two great-grandchildren; a sister-in-law, Elaine Carlson of Des Moines; and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; a brother; the "sister of her heart;" and her cousin, Marion P. Sperry.

In lieu of flowers, the family has established a memorial in her name.