- Date Of Death: December 11, 2016
- State: Colorado
Waunita M. Berkman
Waunita M. Berkman was born in Salina, Kansas in 1929. (She always told the kids that she was born on the day of stock market crash!) She lived on the family farm outside Logan, Kansas, attending school in a one-room schoolhouse before moving to Englewood.
We all remember her stories of living through the dust bowl years and having to turn plates over before dinner. There were also stories of her riding the horse car downtown Denver for work.
She graduated from Englewood High School in 1947. She attended CU and DU before working various cashier, bookkeeping and banking jobs. Waunita retired from the DU cashier’s office.
She married Stan in 1951 and they had two daughters — Sandy and Susan, and two grandchildren—Christopher and Missy.
Through the years, she was involved in many organizations from bridge groups, PTA, Job’s Daughters and Rainbow Girls. She especially enjoyed being involved with her sorority, ESA.
Waunita was also involved in the Channel 7 engineer’s wife’s monthly luncheon group and luncheon groups for the DU cashiers.
Waunita was very interested in genealogy. She helped start the tradition of having family reunions in the Berkman and McMahan families. She was very detailed on a McMahan family tree even to the point of adding pictures.
She enjoyed Stan’s garden and canning the produce.
Waunita enjoyed traveling with Stan in the US and across the world. They were fortunate to have traveled to all but one continent—Antarctica.
Travel Experiences
Ports of Call Mystery Trips (4) including South Korea—DMZ; Recife, Brazil (seeing friends from high school), Ivory Coast and Malta
Other trips:
Australia—being able to ‘fly-over’ Ayers Rock and riding camels in Alice Spring
Thailand—riding and elephant outside of Bangkok
Sailing on the QE2 to England and flying home on the Concorde
Yellowstone in the middle of winter—Waunita’s idea, but they both really enjoyed this unique experience.
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