Wanda Behanish Colson

July 06, 2016

Wanda Behanish Colson

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WANDA BEHANISH COLSON

Wanda J. Colson, 88, of Des Moines passed away peacefully at Mercy Hospital on July 6, 2016. A visitation is planned for Saturday, July 16, 2016, 10:00 AM - noon at Hamilton's near Highland Memory Gardens, 121 NW 60th Ave., Des Moines, Iowa.

Wanda was born to AC and Della Wheeler in Wadsworth, Ohio. She moved to Des Moines her junior year of high school and worked for Northwestern Bell. Wanda married Carl E. Behanish, Sr. on November 4, 1949. Of this union was born three sons, Rick (Ruth) Behanish, Kirk (Ronna) Behanish and Carl Edward (Linda) Behanish, Jr. and a daughter, Roxane (Tim) Simon, all currently living in the Des Moines area. She is also survived by 16 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren and brother, Jack (Patti) Wheeler and sisters, Linda Williams and Judy (George) Morris, and several nieces and nephews.

Wanda will always be remembered as a caregiver; she was a favorite bus driver to the students at Saydel and Ankeny Schools for over 30 years. Wanda enjoyed golf, camping, fishing and playing cards. She was an excellent cook and seamstress and enjoyed spending the last 25 years as a snowbird in San Juan, Texas.

Preceding her in death were her husband, Carl Behanish; granddaughter, Tracy McFarlin; sisters, Maureen Miller and Freida Clark and her second husband, Charles Colson. Memorial contributions may be made to Congregation of the Humility of Mary, 820 West Central Park Ave., Davenport, IA 52804-1900.

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