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- Gerry Lynn
Bratt Wachs, 54, of West Lafayette, Indiana and formerly of Terre
Haute, Indiana died at 11:45 p.m. Thursday, April 13, 2000, at her
residence.
- She taught in
schools in Lafayette and Tippecanoe County, Indiana, retiring from
Klondike Elementary School, where she taught second grade. She was
born August 1, 1945, in Terre Haute, Indiana to Herschell Marvn and
Evelyn Bertha Matthews Bratt.
- Survivors
include her husband, Richard A. Wachs Jr., whom she married August 12,
1982, in Delray Beach, Fla.; three sons, Matthew Williams and Timothy
Williams, both of Lafayette, Indiana and Michael Williams of Muncie,
Indiana; and one brother, Marvin Bratt of Marion, Ohio.
- She was preceded
in death by her parents. She was a 1963 graduate of the former Wiley
High School, earned her bachelors' degree from Indiana State
University, and her masters' degree in elementary education in 1972,
also from ISU. Since 1982, she also has assisted her husband in
coaching the West Lafayette boys and girls varsity swimming and diving
teams. She received a Service Learning Grant from the Indiana
Department of Education to work with children, primarily in the Celery
Bog habitat.
- She was
collaborating to produce a series of oral history stories for the
World Wide Web, at http://wvec.k12.in.us/kes/projects/html.
She was a member of St. John's Episcopal Church of Lafayette and Good
Shepherd Episcopal Church at Purdue University. Memorial services are
5 p.m. Tuesday, Aprill 18, 2000 in St. John's Episcopal Church, with
the Revs. Peter J. Bunder and Ed Tourangeau officiating. Private
inurnment were at the Tippecanoe Memorial Gardens in West Lafayette,
Indiana. Soller-Baker Funeral Home West Lafayette Chapel assisted with
arrangements. The family suggests that, in lieu of flowers, memorial
contributions may be made to Camp Bluebird at St. Elizabeth Medical
Center, 1501 Hartford St., Lafayette, IN 47904.
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