JoAnna M. Lund

JoAnna M. McAndrews Lund, 61, DeWitt, Iowa, died Saturday evening, May 20, 2006, in her home following a courageous four-year battle with inflammatory breast cancer.
A funeral service will be held in Schultz Funeral Home Chapel, DeWitt, at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, May 25, 2006. The Rev. Curt Girod officiating. Interment will follow at Elmwood Cemetery, DeWitt. Pallbearers will be Jerry Coates, Brian Hass, Gerry Schultz, Mike McCollum, George Garrett, and Jerry Stamp. Honorary pallbearer is John Strotmann. Visitation will be from 2 until 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 24, 2006, at the funeral home.
Memorials may be made to Camp Courageous (www.campcourageous.org) or The Discovery Shop in Bettendorf, Iowa.
Condolences may be expressed and a photo tribute viewed at www.schultzfuneralhomes.com.
JoAnna Margaret McAndrews Lund was born September 4, 1944, at Mercy Hospital, Davenport, Iowa, to Jerome and Agnes Carrington McAndrews. JoAnna graduated from Lost Nation High School in 1962. She married Daniel Dierickx in Lost Nation in 1966. JoAnna married Clifford Lund in DeWitt in 1979.
She was employed at Iowa Mutual Insurance Company for almost 20 years before starting her own business, Healthy Exchanges in 1991. While at Iowa Mutual Insurance Company, she obtained her CPCU (Charted Property Casualty Underwriter) and was the first woman in the history of the company to obtain this prestigious degree. JoAnna graduated from the University of Western Illinois in 1990 and received their Distinguished Graduate Award in 1997. She was selected to be a delegate to President Clinton's Small Business Conference in Washington, D.C., in 1996. In the course of operating Healthy Exchanges, she received many, many business and professional awards. In 2004, she was awarded the Gem Award (an award given to a lay person who best gets the message of healthy eating and living across to the general public) by the Iowa Dietetic Association. She hosted two national PBS TV series, and Cliff and JoAnna hosted a call-in radio program on WOC-AM in Davenport for over six years. She was a frequent guest on QVC (the cable shopping network from Philadelphia, Pa.,) for over 10 years and sold more books on QVC than anyone in the history of the company. JoAnna also did the cooking segments on RV Today on various cable TV stations. JoAnna was featured in such magazines as Forbes, People, Bon Appetite, National Enquirer and Prevention. Since 1992, she authored more than 40 cookbooks for Penguin Putnam, sold more than 2,000,000 copies of her various books and wrote and published the monthly subscription based Healthy Exchanges Food Newsletter. She was a featured columnist for King Features in weekly newspapers, wrote for Voice of the Diabetic Newspaper, formed her own syndicate for her monthly food column in senior papers all over the USA and wrote an online cooking column of Trailer Life.
Besides her love of sharing her "common folk" healthy recipes, she enjoyed gardening, cookbook collecting, sewing, and spending time with her family and traveling all over America with Cliff.
JoAnna is survived by her husband, Clifford; daughter, Rebecca (John) Taylor, San Antonio, Texas; sons, James (Pam) Dierickx, Lowden, Iowa, and Thomas (Angie) Dierickx, Abingdon, Illinois; eight grandchildren, Spencer and Ellie Taylor; Zach, Josh, Aaron, and Abram Dierickx; Cheyanne and Cami Jo Dierickx; sisters, Mary McAndrew and Regina Reyes, Davenport; mother-in-law, Marge Lund, Calamus, Iowa; sisters-in-law, Loretta Rothbart, DeWitt, and Juanita Dithmart, Clinton, Iowa; brother-in-law, Dale Lund, Calamus; many nieces and nephews.