Babette Haueisen, Alpine Meadows’ first full-time female ski instructor, died August 24.
Babette Haueisen was known to many as a skiing legend.
To Holley Schooley-Calvo and her family she was a mother and grandmother, despite Haueisen having no kids of her own.
“She gave me strength and she had a warm heart,” said Calvo. “There’s a lot of good parts of me that came from her.”
Haueisen, a longtime Truckee local and Alpine Meadows’ first full-time female ski instructor, died Aug. 24 surrounded by her loved ones. She was 88.
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