By Jennifer Cesarz
Correspondent
The Delavan-Darien High School community is mourning the loss of another beloved teacher, mentor and friend.
Carrie Anne (Sisk) Schuknecht died Wednesday from a reported blood clot.
Earlier in the summer, retired physical education teacher Deb Ludlow died after a battle with cancer.
Schuknecht, who was a business education teacher at D-DHS, called in sick to school Wednesday morning, and hours later died at St. Luke’s Hospital in Milwaukee. She was 39.
After graduating from D-DHS in 1992, Schuknecht went on to the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and graduated with a degree in operations management.
Schuknect worked for Abbot Laboratories and Ecolab early in her career but eventually went back to school and received her teaching certificate in 2010 and began teaching at D-DHS in 2011.
In August 2013, Schuknect graduated with a Master of Business Education degree.
Schuknect wrote this about her job as a business teacher on the district’s website:
“Business is such a practical subject and the skills that students acquire in our classes can be transferred to so many areas of the students’ lives. I love having the opportunity to show students ways that they can use these skills to make a
difference in their futures, careers, families and communities.”
Schuknect is survived by her husband, Joel; children Xander and Zoe; her parents, Gary and Shelli Sisk; brother, Levi (Melissa); sister, Emily Valadez; and other family members.
Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. with a service at 7 p.m. Monday at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church.
Students and staff at Delavan-Darien High School are putting together a memory book for Schuknecht’s family. To share a memory about Schuknecht, visit http://www.ddschools.org/carrie_schuknecht. Guests can upload photos or stories to the website for the memory book.
Sympathy cards can be dropped off in the D-DHS main office on school days between 7 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.
See next week’s Delavan Enterprise for a complete story about Schuknect.
