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Submitted: 11/19/09 • Approved: 11/21/09 • Last Updated: 8/14/15 • R31592-G31592-S3
1929-2007
"Sally"
Beautiful in all ways
CC Notes:
MANDSAGER, Sally, of Loveland. Wife of Chuck Mandsager. Funeral service, 10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 14, Zion Lutheran Church. Final service and interment, Sioux Falls, S.D. Memorial contributions to the music department at Augustana College or Child Voice International.
Publish date: 8/13/2007
SallyMANDSAGER , 78, of Loveland, died Aug. 12 at the Medical Center of the Rockies.
She was born Sarah Caroline Christopherson May
23, 1929, in Newell, S.D., to Agnes and Oswald Christopherson. She graduated from Newell High School and went on to attend Augustana College in Sioux Falls, S.D. It was at Augustana that she met the love of her life, Chuck Mandsager. They were married Dec. 9, 1949, and lived in Sioux Falls for 44 years.
Sally lived in a way that brought glory to God. She was a shining example of a Christian woman, always displaying Christian virtues of love for others, patience, kindness, gentleness, humility and honesty. Her family thought of her as a perfect wife and mother, and those in her presence often referred to Sally as ?a perfect lady.? She lived with Parkinson?s disease for 14 years and never once complained. Her faith and her family were her strength.
While living in Sioux Falls, she was a member of Our Savior?s Lutheran Church, and after retiring to Loveland in 1993, became a member of Zion Lutheran Church, where she was part of the prayer chain, and a member of Priscilla Circle. The world was a kinder place with Sally in it.
Sally had a career as a homemaker and mother, and had many other interests she enjoyed, including classical music (especially Mozart), musicals, dancing, cooking and entertaining, tennis, golf and traveling. Her family will always remember her love for life, with many camping trips on the Missouri River, where Sally loved to water ski and was known to do some fancy tricks. Sally was a percussionist in high school, was part of the Augustana College marching band, was a piano and percussion teacher, and played with the Sioux Falls Symphony Orchestra for 20 years.
One of the highlights of her musical career occurred when guest conductor Meredith Wilson, of ?Music Man? fame, singled Sally out to acknowledge her. He later contacted her with a picture and a note attesting that she was ?a great percussionist.?
Sally is survived by her husband Chuck, son Mark Mandsager (Charlotte, N.C., married to Doreen) daughters Miriam Kunstal (Loveland, married to Frank) and Anne Mandsager (Charlotte, N.C.), and grandchildren Kirsten, Rachel, Ali, Tedd and Carly, sister Susan (Ridgefield, Wash.), niece Sidsel, nephew Chris, and many close friends and extended family.
She was preceded in death by her parents, two brothers, John and Scott Christopherson, and 7-year-old son, Tedd.
The Loveland funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday morning at Zion Lutheran Church, with a funeral service and interment on Thursday, in Sioux Falls, S.D.
Memorial contributions may be made to the music department at Augustana College, or to Child Voice International (a program helping children who have escaped from the horrors of war in Africa, founded by Conrad and Neil Mandsager, nephews of Sally).
Arrangements are being handled by Kibbey Fishburn Funeral Home in Loveland, and Miller Funeral Home in Sioux Falls, S.D.
Contributed on 11/19/09 by 9katz
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