Joann T. Derouin

Joann T. Derouin, 60, died on Sunday, July 16, 2017 at the Lakeview Health Care Center in West Salem. She was born on October 12, 1956 in La Crosse to Joseph and Lorraine (Alberts) Derouin. Joann graduated from Logan High School Special Education Class of 1972. Joann made violins while at Logan, loved music, needlework, painting, and coloring. She was a very good natured, sweet, loving person, who had a special talent for remembering names and faces.

Joann is survived by her mother Lorraine, three sisters, Kathleen Faas, Patricia Kendhammer, and Jeannine (Tom) Kendhammer, eight nieces and nephews and twenty-two great-nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her father Joseph, two infant sisters, her grandparents, a nephew Adam Kendhammer, and brothers-in-law, Ron Faas and Pete Kendhammer.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Monday, July 24, 2017 at 10:30 AM at Mary, Mother of the Church, 2006 Weston Street. Rev. Brian D. Konopa will officiate. Entombment will follow in the Mormon Coulee Memorial Park. Friends may call at the church on Monday from 9:30 AM until the time of services. A Rosary will be recited Monday at 9:30 AM. Memorials may be given to NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, or the Epilepsy Foundation. For more information or questions on memorials contact Kathy Faas, 781-0498.

Joann’s family would like to thank the entire staff at Lakeview Health Care Center for the wonderful care they gave her during her many years as a resident.