CHAMPAIGN — Waneta L. McDaniel passed away peacefully on November 17, 2017, at Eastview Terrace in Sullivan, Illinois.
Memorial services will be held at 6 p.m. Tuesday, November 21, at Renner-Wikoff Chapel, 1900 South Philo Road, Urbana, Illinois. Pastor Brent Roberson will officiate.
Waneta was born April 29, 1931, in Sidney, Illinois, to Oscar and Mabel Kleinmeyer Frick. She graduated from Longview Township High School. She raised her children in Mahomet and then was a longtime resident of Round Barn Manor in Champaign.
For much of her life, Waneta was an active member of her home church, Sangamon Valley Christian Center in Mahomet.
She was known for her ability to take bits of near nothing and turn them into something, a fixer and a doer who saw problems as challenges. She was as smart as a whip, stubborn as a goat, and cuddly as a teddy bear.
She will be remembered for her kindness, tenacity, and no-nonsense approach to life and its many surprises, her love of two-stepping around her apartment,
and frequent utterances of her favorite phrase, “Oh, whatever.”
She metered out orneriness almost equal to her heaping measures of love, a skill that she has imparted to her children, Pamela (Dan) Ferguson and David (Melody) McDaniel, andher grandchildren, Tiffany (Nick) White, Christopher (Megan Gebbink) McDaniel, Erin (David Mills) Williams, and Maggie (Anne Jackson) Ruch. They will then impart the same to her great-grandchildren: Alexis, Emily, Maddie, Logan, Michael, and Keagan.
Waneta was preceded in death by her parents and her brother Orville Frick and is survived by her brother Kenneth (Joy) Frick and sister-in-law Connie Frick.
The family asks that any donations be made in memorium to the Alzheimer’s Association, alz.org. Condolences may be offered at www.rennerwikoffchapel. com.
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