Janet Elaine (Lipscomb) DEITCHMAN

DEITCHMAN, SWOPE, LIPSCOMB, TENDALL, SANDLEY, FULLER, DEITCHMAN-HAHN, HAHN, OLINGER, LEIN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 5/4/2007 at 23:47:57

Marshfield News-Herald (WI)
September 22, 2005

Janet "Jan" Elaine Deitchman, loving wife, mother, grandmother and friend, 58, Marshfield, died at 3:35 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2005, at the House of the Dove, with her husband and family present. A memorial service will be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23, 2005, at Saint Joseph's Hospital Chapel. Chaplain Bob Cassidy will officiate. The family will receive relatives and friends at the chapel from 1:45 p.m. until service time Friday. Rembs/Kundinger Funeral Home is assisting the family.

Jan was born March 3, 1947, in Van Nuys, Calif., to William and Mildred (Swope) Lipscomb. She was raised in Belmond, Iowa, by Adolph and Merrill Tendall. She attended Belmond Community High School, Saint Joseph's School of Nursing, Marshfield, and the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, where she received her bachelor's and master's degrees in nursing. She was married to David Deitchman on May 26, 1973. She began working at Saint Joseph's Hospital in 1974, with the majority of her career spent in critical care. She was a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Theta Tau and the American Association of Critical Care Nurses. In May of 2003, she was presented with the Wisconsin Nurse of the Year Award. Jan was very proud of her nursing career, finding it very rewarding to be able to assist patients, families and younger nurses. She was one of the first flight nurses on the Spirit of Marshfield Trauma Care. Jan had many interests. Her biggest joy was her family. She found nothing more entertaining than when her children and grandchildren visited. Jan had a delightful sense of humor and loved seeing that in other people. She had a passion for flowers and enjoyed traveling, reading and sewing.

She will be dearly missed by her husband, David, children and grandchildren. Her children are Lori (Brad) Sandley of Marshfield and their children, Kristin and Angela Sandley; Mark (Deb) Deitchman of Phoenix, Ariz., and their children, Zach, Ryan and Maddy Deitchman; Jim (Patty) Fuller of LaCrosse and their children, Thomas, Amy and Sara Fuller; and Michelle (Travis) Deitchman-Hahn of Menomonie and their children, Josie Olinger and Parker Hahn. She is also survived by a sister, Jean (Wayne) Lein of Belmond, Iowa, and a brother, Russ (Joyce) Tendall of Clear Lake, Iowa. She was predeceased by her parents. Memorials may be designated in her name to the cardiac care unit at St. Joseph's Hospital.

"The greatest tragedy of life is not death; but, what dies while we are living." Jan Deitchman

Marshfield News-Herald (WI)
September 22, 2005