[Dailydrool] Sandy Bookmeyer ATB

[Sandi Wittenberg]

I met Sandy through the Daily Drool in 1996-97 when her mother had cancer
and my mother had just been diagnosed.  She was the person who encouraged me
to write the famous Nick's Adventure books.   She and Paul came to the
Michigan Waddle in 1998 (I think) and also attended Basset Nationals in St.
Louis a few years ago.   Her current basset is Mariah who is the littermate
to my Mandy ATB and Sandy.  If you would like to send a memorial
contribution in Sandy Bookmeyer's memory, she requested that Daphneyland be
her designated basset charity (www.daphneyland.com
<http://www.daphneyland.com> ) .  I have put her obituary below.

 

November 27, 1948 - July 2, 2018

Sandra (Sandy) K. Hanson Bookmeyer, age 69, of Lee's Summit, MO, passed
away, July 2, 2018

Sandy was born November 27, 1948 in Fremont, Nebraska to Edith Gustafson
Hanson and Lyle L. Hanson.  She graduated in 1967 from Mead Public High
School.  Following graduation she attended and graduated from Midland
Lutheran College, (Fremont, NE) and from Immanuel Hospital School of
Nursing, Omaha, Nebraska.  She married Paul G. Bookmeyer on August 8, 1970
at Alma Lutheran Church in Mead, Nebraska.  Sandy worked as a Registered
Nurse for several years at Immanuel Hospital before becoming a stay at home
mother for their two sons.  

Sandy was active in P.T.A. (Parent Teacher Association) at the local and
state levels, with her Immanuel Nursing Alumni Association Board and served
on various committees at several Lutheran churches in Omaha and Fremont,
Nebraska.  She was pleased to serve as part of a resettlement committee for
a Laotian family at Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran church and also
volunteered with local and statewide P.R.I.D.E. organizations.

In 1999, Sandy graduated from Western Illinois University with her Masters
in Counseling degree.  Following graduation, she worked as a therapist at
the Gannon Center in Clinton, Iowa, before moving to Lee's Summit, Missouri
with her family.  After establishing licensure in Missouri, she began her
own private therapy practice.  Sandy was passionate about helping her
clients' problem solve and realize their best lives.  She focused on
treating adults with traumas, both large and small, using EMDR and
Sensorimotor Psychotherapies.  Sandy was also instrumental in promoting and
facilitating numerous clinical trauma trainings in the Kansas City area,
thus helping to educate many other therapists in the treatment of trauma.

Sandy and her husband, Paul G. Bookmeyer, have two sons, Eric Bookmeyer and
Marc Bookmeyer.   As the children grew, the family enjoyed traveling to
Custer State Park in South Dakota, Montana, Arizona, Michigan and Florida.
During their retirement. Sandy and Paul enjoyed traveling to visit family in
Sweden and in Germany, as well as various trips to Iceland, Arizona,
California, Washington, New York, and Florida.  Sandy loved spending time
with her family and cherished precious moments with them.  In addition, she
treasured her many friendships - - her aunts and uncles, her cousins, her
Immanuel Nursing classmates, and her EMDR, Sensorimotor and the Martin
Luther Lutheran church communities.  

Sandy was a life-long faithful Lutheran and current member of Martin Luther
Lutheran Church in Lee's Summit, MO.  She believed fervently in "living her
faith" and sharing her love and compassion with others in her work and in
her family life.  She also believed firmly in the importance of "standing
up" for what is right and just, even when it is uncomfortable to do so. And
she believed in the "power of one person" to effect change in our world!
Besides her loving family, her legacy of choice would be to promote healing
of trauma and to stand up for social justice issues.

She is preceded in death by her parents, Edith (Gustafson) Hanson and Lyle
Hanson.

Sandra (Sandy) K. Hanson Bookmeyer is survived by her loving husband, Paul
Bookmeyer, of Lee's Summit, Missouri, sons, Eric Bookmeyer (Erin) and
grandchildren, Anders and Elsa of Mason City, Iowa, Marc Bookmeyer (Rachel)
of Lawrence, Kansas, sister, Karen Carstensen (Dean) and nephew, Tim
Carstensen of Fremont and niece, Wendy (Phillip) Sanders of Topeka, Kansas,
in addition to her dear Aunt Doris Schuelke and Uncle Fred Retzlaff and a
host of beloved cousins in the United States and in Sweden.

Memorials: Alma Lutheran Church, Mead, Nebraska; Martin Luther Lutheran
Church, Lee's Summit, Missouri; American Cancer Society; EMDR Research; and
Daphneyland Basset Rescue, Acton, California.

Services will be held Friday, July 7th at Martin Luther Lutheran Church,
1200 SW Blue Parkway, Lee's Summit MO with visitation at 10 AM, 11 AM
service with lunch/fellowship time following.

 

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