- Date Of Birth: February 27, 1939
- Date Of Death: June 28, 2010
- State: Connecticut
Barbara Marie Krusewski Hansen, 71, from Hebron, CT and Santa Maria, CA passed into eternal rest on June 28, 2010 after courageously suffering a lifetime of hurdles from Marfan syndrome. Ultimately, Stage 4 Congestive Heart Failure, an INR (blood clotting time) of 20, a seizure and God’s will took her life. Born in Milford to Vincent and Marie (LeVasseur) Krusewski, she was raised in Waterbury attending St. Mary Elementary and Sacred Heart High. She moved to California after her mother passed, where she married and raised her family. She received her Bachelors degree in Home Economics and Masters degree in Education, both at Cal Poly Pomona. She taught Foods, Nutrition and Sewing at Bishop Amat Memorial High and Montclair High. She had a passion for teaching and helping her students and loved what she did. After a stroke at age 56, she and her selfless husband took an early retirement and moved back to Connecticut as ‘snow birds’. Dedicated and beloved wife, mother, “Nana”, friend, high school teacher, Red Sox and Angels fan, she will be greatly missed. Though she is gone, she has left us with many wonderful memories and much wisdom to carry our family forward. Along with her husband Carl Peter of Hebron and Santa Maria, Barbara leaves her daughter, Christina Marie Hansen Arakaki and husband Dr. Henry Arakaki, Jr. of Santa Maria, CA; her son, Captain Timothy Peter Hansen (currently deployed to Iraq) and wife Ginger Ellen Hansen of Olympia, WA; her brother Robert Krusewski and wife Eleanor; and three grandchildren: Harrison (15) and Christian (9) Hansen and Henry III (6) Arakaki.
July 6th is also the 42nd wedding anniversary for Barbara and her beloved husband. Barbara’s family acknowledges the love and support of family, friends and the many medical personnel that cared for and loved her with praise and gratitude. Her son and daughter acknowledge their father, Peter, for the beautiful example of a committed marriage he showed in being Barbara’s caregiver these last 15 years.
