2010.11.20: November 20, 2010: Obituary for Yemen and Honduras RPCV Susan Bacheller
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2010.11.20: November 20, 2010: Obituary for Yemen and Honduras RPCV Susan Bacheller
Obituary for Yemen and Honduras RPCV Susan Bacheller
Ms. Bacheller was a registered nurse who served in the Peace Corps in Yemen and Honduras before joining the U.S. Agency for International Development in the mid-1990s. She was a senior infectious diseases adviser for the agency's Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean before becoming the tuberculosis team leader in 2003. She received the agency's Meritorious Honor Award in 2006 in recognition of her work, which took her to dozens of countries as she developed and helped to execute the government's global tuberculosis strategy.
Obituary for Yemen and Honduras RPCV Susan Bacheller
Susan Bacheller, Mary B. Furr, Dorothy M. Newman, Michael P. Broderick,
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Susan Bacheller
USAID tuberculosis specialist
Susan Bacheller, 52, who led a team of USAID employees working to combat tuberculosis around the world, was found dead at her home in Falls Church on Oct. 20. The cause was complications of hypertension, according to an autopsy.
Ms. Bacheller was a registered nurse who served in the Peace Corps in Yemen and Honduras before joining the U.S. Agency for International Development in the mid-1990s. She was a senior infectious diseases adviser for the agency's Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean before becoming the tuberculosis team leader in 2003.
She received the agency's Meritorious Honor Award in 2006 in recognition of her work, which took her to dozens of countries as she developed and helped to execute the government's global tuberculosis strategy.
Susan Bacheller was born and raised in Grand Rapids, Mich., where she survived a tornado that destroyed her childhood home.
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After high school, she received a nursing diploma at Grand Rapids' Mercy Central School of Nursing and began working at a local hospital. While working full time, she attended Grand Valley State University in Michigan, from which she graduated with a degree in political science in 1989.
She went on to receive a master's degree in international development from American University and then put her training to use as a health-care specialist in the Peace Corps.
She enjoyed bicycling and playing the piano.
Survivors include a brother, Tom Bacheller of Huntley, Ill.; and three sisters, Sharon Smith of Franklin, Tenn., Barbara Daly of Sterling and Julie Bulerski of Comstock Park, Mich.
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