Jean Suzanne Kammerer, born March 25, 1947 in Wichita, Kansas to Theodore Elmore Kammerer and Bessy Jean (Appleton) Kammerer, passed away peacefully on June 15, 2026.

Suzanne loved having new adventures, learning new things, and meeting all types of people. In her younger years, she traveled extensively. She backpacked all over Europe and the Middle East for about 18 months, lived on a Kibbutz in Israel for a harvest season, skied in the mountains of Germany, and explored historical sites and local cultures everywhere she went. She taught school in rural Australia for a year, where she made some life-long friends and later visited again. She taught school in San Diego, CA for awhile, and spent a season salmon fishing in Alaska with some friends.

Suzanne loved sports. In her younger years she enjoyed playing on a variety of teams year-round, frequently surfed in the Pacific Ocean by San Diego, and snow skied wherever she could find good slopes in the US and Europe. In later life she cheered for the athletes in the family and watched football avidly.

She was a talented musician with a special love for Native American flutes and a variety of small drums. She built her own recording studio at home and recorded a collection of her original flute music on her CD Flute Flying. Her career as a photographer began with wedding, commercial, and horse photography. She developed film at her business, California Color Dark Room, and became known for the quality of her film development services. She was part of a photo safari sponsored by the Tourism Bureau of Kenya; some of her photos are included in the book she helped them produce, Project Kenya – The Adventure. After moving to Eureka Springs, Arkansas she owned an old-time photo studio there for a few years before moving to Nashville, Indiana and opening Nashville Image where she made old-time photos and performed wedding ceremonies.

She’s remembered by all who knew her for her great sense of humor, expansive creativity, love of adventure, wonderful story-telling and love of sports. Suzanne is survived by her wife, Laughing Womyn Ashonosheni, her brothers Jerry and Larry Kammerer, 3 brothers-in-law and 3 sisters-in-law on Laughing Womyn’s side, many nieces and nephews and their families on both sides of the family, and friends in many places. She brought a lot of humor and inspiration to all of our lives and is deeply loved and celebrated by all of us.