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Are you a DMCS Alumni? Update us with your latest news and milestones on the Alumni Update Form
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Alumni News
We look forward to hearing from you when you celebrate milestones or have news to share.
Please send us information and/or photos of:
- College news/graduations
- Engagements/Weddings
- Babies' births
- Promotions
- Missions work
- Deaths/serious illness
- Prayer requests
To share information, use the Alumni Update Form.
Class of 2011, welcome to the Alumni Association!
Click here to view a copy of the valedictorian and salutatorian joint graduation speech.
Class of 2010 Homecoming Queen Abbie Toulouse performed at the Iowa State Fair, along with fellow DMC students and alumni Josiah Nelson, Shelby Gates, Matt Nichols, and Noah Nichols. Click on the links below to see their performances.
Love Remains Gone Let Go Nashville, Tennessee and Brave Glass Slipper Story of Us
Christina's Obituary
 Christina Monique Ryd Wallerstedt
Birth Day: February 20, 1987
"I Gotcha' Day": September 16, 1994
Adoption Day: May 22, 1995
Entrance to Heaven Day: January 9, 2011
Christina Wallerstedt left this life and entered heaven to meet her Lord Jesus Christ on Sunday, January 9, 2011 at Mercy Hospital Medical Center in Des Moines. She died suddenly of a saddle pulmonary embolism. Memorial services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, January 14 in the chapel at First Federated Church (park in SW lot), with a light lunch to follow. After lunch family and friends will travel to Union Cemetery in Boxholm, Iowa for burial. Visitation will be 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, January 13, at Hamilton's on Westown Parkway in West Des Moines.
Christina was born in Sioux City, Iowa. She fell in love with Eeyore and stuffed frogs at a very early age and enjoyed dressing up as a clown. Her mischievous grin and antics always made people laugh. She enjoyed writing poetry and you can read some of it online at http://www.poetry.com/user/christina-monique-wa/13276463/
In high school, Christina became somewhat of a "drama queen" by participating in musicals and theatrical productions. She graduated in 2005 from Des Moines Christian School (DMCS) and continued her education at Hannibal-LaGrange College in Missouri, graduating in 2009. She worked at Wells Fargo in the Equity Retention Department.
Her friendly smile, sense of humor and zest for life was infectious, and she will be greatly missed by her family and many good friends.
Christina is survived by her parents: Steve and Sherrie Wallerstedt; her fiancé, Frank Howard; her grandparents: Ken and Pat Wallerstedt, Bud and Shirley Collins; and her biological grandmother, Grace Engelhart; her aunts and uncles: Rex and Karen (Wallerstedt) Voegtlin, Jeff and Karla (Wallerstedt) Taber and Kathy Wallerstedt; and her cousins: Josh Taber; Bethany (Taber) Stillwell, and Sarah, Rachel and Jessah Taber.
Memorial contributions may be made to the "DMCS Scholarship Fund" in loving memory of Christina.
You may leave personal memories of Christina on the Facebook group "In Memory of Christina Wallerstedt".
December 2009 Alumni Updates
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2008 graduate Katie JohnsonMartin is on full scholarship at Culver-Stockton College in Canton Missouri. She is again on the president's list with a 3.9 GPA and is involved with student government and plays softball.
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2008 graduate Leah Kostek and 2009 graduate Katelyn Kostek are members of the Northwestern volleyball team. They finished 5th in the NCCAA national volleyball tournament.
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2008 graduate Lindsay Lettow Achieved All-American status by finishing 4th in the pentathlon at the National D2 Indoor Track and Field Championship. She was twice named as the MIAA conference women's outdoor track athlete of the week. Additionally, she won both the freshman high point total award and the overall high point total award at the MIAA outdoor conference championships with 37 points.
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