Georgina Ann (“Ann”) Farndale (later Georgina Ann
Wingard and later Georgina Ann Van Haun)
1 August 1934 to 21 August 1998
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London
1934
Georgina Ann Farndale, daughter of
George William and Doris May (nee Earnshaw) Farndale (FAR00678),
was born on 1 August 1934 (death
record). Her birth was registered in Lambeth District in the third
quarter of 1934 (GRO Vol 1D Page 354).
South Yorkshire Times and Mexborough & Swinton
Times, 19 July 1941: EARNSHAW.
The death of Mr Joseph William Earnshaw, 86, of 125, Doncaster Rd, Denaby, occurred on Sunday and the internment took place at
Mexborough on Wednesday. The mourners were... Mr and Mrs G Farndale... Mr. A
Earnshaw... Pat, John and Ann Farndale...
1953
Georgina A Farndale, married Charles S
Wingard in 1953 and their marriage was registered in the second quarter of 1953
in Hendon District (GRO Vol 5e page 985).
Charles S Wingard was born in M<ichegan on 12 September 1933, the son of Ernest Gustav
Wingard (1895 to 1974) and Fannybelle (nee Siminow) Wingard (1910 to 2007).
Georgina A Wingard, emigrated to USA.
1953
Charles Wingard was born in 1953.
1955
Philip Wingard was born in 1955.
1959
Michael Wingard was born in 1959.
1961
Lisa Wingard was born in 1961.
Orange County, California
1970
Georgina Ann Wingard became a US
citizen on 11 August 1970 (Federal Naturalisation
Records).
1979
Georgina A Wingard married Arthur M
Van Haun in Orange County, California on 5 May 1979 (US
Marriage Index).
1980
Her
brother, John Farndale (FAR00921),
who lived in California, confirmed that she lived in 1980 in Tustin,
California.
Tustin is a city in Orange
County, California, USA, within the Los Angeles metropolitan area. After the
Mexican–American War, Alta California became part of the United States and
American settlers arrived in this area. Columbus Tustin, a carriage maker from
Northern California, founded the city in 1868 on 1,300 acres (5.3 km2) of land
from the former Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana. The city was incorporated in 1927
with a population of about 900. The townsite was bordered by Camino Real on the
south, Newport Avenue on the east, 1st Street on the north, and Route 43, now
known as the Costa Mesa Freeway, on the west.
1990
She became mayor of Lake Forest, Orange
County, California in about 1990. Lake Forest incorporated as a city on 20 December
1991. Prior to incorporation, the community had been known as El Toro. Residents
chose to incorporate, and chose the name Lake Forest in a referendum.
Controversy ensued for months, as residents of the newer subdivisions argued
that Lake Forest sounded better than El Toro, while long-time residents
complained that the name change aimed to erase the town's history in favour of
an artificial name that referred to man-made lakes. El Toro High School kept
its name.
1996
Lake Forest. The call came at 2:30
a.m., and a sleepy Ann Van Haun picked up the phone with a sense of dread. She
expected some kind of emergency. But the news was far from bad. After enduring
three long years of dialysis and wondering if she would ever get a new kidney,
the Lake Forest City Council member and former mayor had less than 72 hours to
get ready for an organ transplant. Tonight, three weeks after a successful
transplant operation, Van Haun, 61, returns to her council seat and a new life.
Behind her now is the love-hate relationship she had with the dialysis machines
at Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, where she visited for treatment three
times a week. On one hand, the machine “was a lifesaver,” said Van Haun. “It
literally kept me alive.” Still, the puncture marks on her arm where the
dialysis tubes were inserted are only now beginning to fade. She can attend
political functions and meetings that she previously had to turn down.
Vacations can now be planned without having to check on the location of the
nearest dialysis center. “It was a very confining
lifestyle,” said Van Haun. “But I do feel like I’ve got my life back.” What has
friends and council colleagues amazed is that they never would have known Van
Haun had a serious medical problem by the amount of work she did for the city. While
afflicted with kidney disease, Van Haun was mayor for a year, when she had the
responsibility of being lead negotiator for Lake Forest on the El Toro Marine
Corps Air Station reuse controversy. If that wasn’t enough, she also survived a
near-fatal car crash in late 1994 that left her in a walker for six months. “She
didn’t seem affected by her condition at all. Ann is absolutely amazing, and my
hat is off to her,” Mayor Richard T. Dixon said. The onset of kidney failure is
marked by severe tiredness and nausea, symptoms Van Haun first experienced in
1992. She was diagnosed with a type of kidney inflammation that often leads to
complete failure of the organ. Although dialysis, which cleanses the blood of
toxins, temporarily alleviates the symptoms, doctors say few patients return to
holding a full-time job. Even after having a kidney transplant, it can take up
to a year for a patient to return to full strength, said kidney specialist
Jerald Sigala, a Newport Beach physician who treats Van Haun. Van Haun, on the
other hand, will return to her council duties three weeks after her kidney
transplant. “Mental frame of mind is one of Ann’s positives,” said Sigala. “I
have other patients in similar stages who don’t do nearly as well.” Despite
having a rare blood type, Van Haun never gave up hope that a matching donor
would be found, although she admits to having dark moments. “You try not to
keep the idea of a transplant in the forefront all the time,” she said.
“Otherwise you would drive yourself crazy from all the waiting. So when the
call came, it came as a very big surprise.” Van Haun got a huge boost last
October when her brother, a Santa Ana resident who had kidney problems,
successfully received a transplant. A sister who lives in London also got a
kidney transplant and is doing well, said Van Haun. “I was able to share that
experience with him,” she said. “We kept on saying, ‘I’m next, I’m next.’ ” And
finally it was Van Haun’s turn. As happy as she is at being paroled from
dialysis, it pales compared to the overwhelming sense of emotion she feels
toward her anonymous donor. “I’m just so grateful that somebody out there has
given that gift of life,” she said. “The one thing I want to get across is to
tell people whose loved ones won’t be coming back what a gift this is for
someone else.” (Los
Angeles Times, 16 June 1996).
1998
Georgina Ann Wingard/Van Haun/Farndale
born 1 August 1934 in London died on 21
August 1998. She is buried at El Toro Memorial Park, Lake Forest, Orange
County, California.
There is an Ann
Wingard Van Haun Nature Trail.