- Date Of Birth: February 19, 1923
- Date Of Death: December 11, 2014
- State: Florida
Alma Halleman
Educator
As an educator, Mrs. Fred Halleman has touched many lives. The retired teacher died on Thursday, December 11, 2014, at the age of 91. Mrs. Halleman was born in Wisconsin on February 19, 1923. She and her husband moved to Florida in 1980.
She received a Bachelor degree in Education, and a Master degree, with honors, in Reading Education, from the University of Wisconsin.
Mrs. Halleman taught all of her life. Most of these years were
spent in elementary and middle school classrooms in Wisconsin, Hawaii, California and Florida. For four years she was on the faculty of a teacher’s college in Wisconsin as demonstration teacher and supervisors of new teachers. She also served as a reading consultant at the high school level in Florida.
From 1991 to 2001 she was on the staff of the Learning Resource Center in Lakeland, Florida as a program coordinator and teacher of their SAT prep class. After she retored in December 2001, she continued teaching the SAT prep class as well as tutoring students at all grade levels in Reading, Writing and test taking. She has also served as an adjunct professor at PCC.
She is survived by nine step-children, twelve grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren. Mrs. Halleman was preceded in death by her husbands, Champlain Castle and Paul Carpenter, both of whom died of cancer and by Frederick Halleman, who died of heart failure in 2005, to whom she was married to for 28 years.