This exquisite Alaska Property has everything imaginable for wilderness living in comfort and style. Remote, Rural, and Rare.A True Slice of History and Heaven. Whether she was called Una Mae, Rusti, Mom, Grandma or Gigi, she will be remembered as a woman devoted to family, friends, and causes she loved.There are NO TAXES - None, in this part of Alaska. In her final years, she was also blessed with two great-grandchildren who she described as “precious” and “handsome chaos.” Rusti attended the games, graduations, concerts, and plays of her eight grandchildren including as an avid streamer once events were shown online. She loved to spoil them at Christmas and on birthdays with the gift they truly wanted but weren’t sure they could ask for. Rusti’s grandchildren brought out a special level of devotion. She and Bill also found a whole new community through their travels northward on their boat, Tahoma. Rusti loved the Pacific Northwest weather, the San Juan Island lifestyle, and the delicious seafood. Her retirement years were spent with Bill, living most of the year in Roche Harbor, Washington. She also regularly volunteered at her churches in La Canada and Friday Harbor, Washington.
Rusti was also known for devotion to her community and causes she loved, spending many years as a leader with the Girl Scouts, the Assistance League of Pasadena, and the Mother’s Guild of Mayfield Senior School. She was a trendsetter as well, documenting meals with photos long before Instagram and Tik Tok. Large filing cabinets were filled with detailed notes of their travels to places such as China, South America, Europe, Canada, Alaska and her beloved Kona Village, Hawaii. Rusti also loved learning, especially through travel. Her devotion to her children and their lives never wavered even after she lost a daughter, Sara, aged 3, in her early years of motherhood. She is survived by daughters, Cindy of Pasadena, Kathy of Newhall, Christy of Baltimore, Maryland, and son, Billy of Santa Monica. Perhaps Rusti should have written an advice book on successful parenting given that she raised a teenager in each of four decades from the 1960s through the 1990s while still maintaining her sanity. She truly loved Bill, the family they built, and the life they shared together over more than 60 years of marriage. Given how much she adored him, it surprisingly took three proposals for her to say “yes”. It was there that she met the love of her life, Bill Van Rooy. She then journeyed north to Seattle to start her working life including time at IBM. in Psychology as part of the Class of 1954. Her high school and college years were spent in Southern California at Glendale High where she first acquired the nickname, Rusti, and then at Occidental College where she earned a B.A. Rusti spent her early years traveling for her father’s work as a Ford executive including stops in Minneapolis, Dearborn, Michigan, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil before the family settled in California. Born Novemin Minneapolis, Minnesota to Ted and Sadie Russell and named after her grandmothers, Unis and Mae, Rusti remained dedicated to her parents’ lessons, often quoting maxims from her childhood. Devotion is truly a word that characterized Una Mae (Rusti) Van Rooy throughout her life.
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