Obit: Tucker, Leona Helene (1921 - 2019)
Transcriber: Robert Lipprandt
bob@wiclarkcountyhistory.org
Surnames: Garbisch, Nikstad, Tucker, Tyx, Walburg
----Source: The Peterson-Kraemer Funeral Home (Wausau East/West, Athens, Edgar,
Marathon WI) 1/16/2019
Tucker, Leona Helene (Garbisch) (12 APR 1921 - 11 JAN 2019)
Leona Tucker, 97, passed away at Aspirus Hospital in Wausau, WI on January 11,
2019.
She was born Leona Helene Garbisch on April 12, 1921 at the family farm in
Granton, WI. Leona graduated as the valedictorian of the Granton High School
Class of 1939. She married Joseph Tucker on May 18, 1948. They lived in Superior
for most of their married life. Joe and Leona moved to Wausau in 1990 to be
nearer their family.
In Wausau, she served in several offices for the local AARP chapter and on the
statewide AARP Legislative Committee. She received the Ethel Percy Andrus Award
for statewide service. Leona was part of the Depression Kids who spoke at area
schools and was featured in the first DC Everest history book. Leona was also a
member of St. Matthew Catholic Church and the Catholic Daughters. She helped
with the Tax Aide program well into her eighties and completed 15 years of
service as an Aspirus volunteer at age 92. She especially enjoyed singing weekly
with the Wausau Senior Citizen Chorus at many nursing homes throughout the area.
Leona loved to attend all the family gatherings from weddings to graduations to
the annual family reunion in Marshfield. Leona was dearly loved by her nieces
and nephews and their families. She was the matriarch of the family and the last
of her generation.
Leona was preceded in death by her beloved husband Joe, an infant son, her
parents Paul and Emma Garbisch, all her siblings and their spouses, and her
son-in-law, James Nikstad.
Leona will be greatly missed by her children, Emalyn Nikstad (Wausau, WI) and
Rick and Bonnie Tucker (Hermantown, MN), her grandchildren and their spouses
Laura Nikstad and Dan Tyx (McAllen, TX), Paul and Erica Nikstad (Deephaven, MN)
, Bethany Nikstad (St. Louis, MO), Andrea and Brandon Walburg (Hermantown, MN),
Joseph P. Tucker (Dayton, OH) and Kyle Tucker (Yokohama, Japan) and her
great-grandchildren Benjamin Tyx, Ana Tyx, Trevor Walburg, Thomas Walburg and
Judd Nikstad. She is also survived by her in-laws Aileen Tucker, Mary Tucker,
David and Janice Tucker and Michael Tucker.
Services will be held at St. Matthew Catholic Church, Wausau, on Saturday,
January 19, 2019. Visitation will be from 9:30-11:30 with the Mass of Burial at
11:30. Interment will be at Calvary Cemetery in Superior, WI in spring.
Peterson-Kraemer Funeral Home of Wausau is in charge of arrangements. On-line
condolences may be expressed at
www.petersonkraemer.com.
The family would like to thank the staff at Mountain Terrace Senior Living for
the kind and considerate support they have given Leona over the past four years
and to the entire staff of the Palliative Care Unit at Aspirus for their tender
care.
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