Minnesota Remembers: In Progress BACK
Bill Andberg 96
Lloyd Ebert
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Shirley Forsman 69
Gayla Diane Keyes 52
Elaine E. Metzger 61
DeWayne Murphy 34
Leslie Wermers 41 Hopkins
Leslie Rae Wermers was born June 7, 1967 in Algona, Iowa. She was raised in Burt, Iowa and graduated from Burt High School in 1985 and Ellsworth Community College in Iowa Falls in 1987. She then received a Mortuary Science Degree from the Dallas Institute of Funeral Service. Leslie held many positions; she became a jailor for Crow Wing County and the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Department, was a camp counselor in Brainerd and worked as a funeral director in Houston, Texas, and later as a dispatcher for the Houston Police Department. She volunteered her time with the Jaycees and as a 'Big Sister'. After becoming too ill to continue working, she redirected her limited energies and seemingly tireless enthusiasm into the mission of patient help by co-founding, with her sister, the 'Minnesota Lymefighter's Advocacy'.
Wermers died November 2, 2008, of complications stemming from Lyme disease and other tickborne infections.
"Leslie’s death leaves a deep hole in my heart and in so many others. Her indomitable spirit and passion for life were equaled only by her anger at the injustices wrought by Lyme ignorance and her dedication to help heal. May this be a lesson–and Leslie’s legacy–for all of us." -Andy Abrahams Wilson
Obituary published in the Globe Gazette in November, 2008
Leslie Wermers Remembered Courtesy of 'Open Eye Pictures'
Lori Lynn (Daman) Widlund 42
"I shall pass this way but once, therefore any kindness I can show or any help I can give, let me do it now, for I shall not pass this way again."- Author Unknown
© 2006 The National Lyme Disease Memorial Park Project
