Nancy B. Hulslander, 76

Nancy B. Hulslander “went to be with our heavenly father” on Dec. 12, 2013, after complications due to heart valve replacement surgery. 

Nancy was a gift from the start, born on Christmas Day 1936, to Dean and Marian Brooks in Delhi, N.Y.  She was the oldest of three children raised on a rural Pennsylvania farm. She attended Wilson Memorial Nursing School and received a nursing degree. 

In 1957, she married Loring Hulslander and worked at the Penn State Infirmary until Loring graduated in 1959. Shortly thereafter, they moved across country to Glide, Ore. to follow Loring’s career choice with the Forest Service. They moved to Burns, Ore. in 1962, and Entiat, Wash. in 1969, and to Fortine in 1977. Nancy finished her career at the Mountain View Manor in Eureka. Eventually they moved to Columbia Falls after Loring’s retirement in 1994.

Nancy enjoyed baking, playing golf, growing flowers and singing with the Columbia Falls Community Choir. But more than anything, she enjoyed being "grandma" to her two grandchildren. She invented "slipper camp" (the opposite of boot camp!) that would reward the "camper" with good food and lots of couch time. She was a spectator at all their activities including the very early hockey games. She made sure there were "cookies to go" on all the road trips.

 She is survived by her husband of 56 years, Loring; and children and family, Mark Hulslander, Susan Hulslander and Matt Benedict and their children, Taylor Hulslander and McKenna Hulslander, and Eric Hulslander and wife Katie from Boise, Idaho, brother and sister-in-law, James and Nancy Brooks from Mehoopany, Pa.

At Nancy's request, her ashes will be buried in a family plot in Lynn, Pa.

She’ll be dearly missed by her friends and family.

Memorial donations maybe given to the American Diabetes Association in Nancy's honor.

Memorial services will be 3 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 23 at Austin Funeral Home in Whitefish.

Arrangements are entrusted to Austin Funeral Home. You are invited to go to www.austinfh.com to offer condolences, share memories and view Nancy’s tribute wall.