Huntsville City Schools is mourning the loss of Susan L. Wardynski, wife of Superintendent Casey Wardynski. She died at her home on Sunday at age 56.

Susan Wardynski (Laughlin Service Funeral Home)

According to her obituary, she succumbed to the cancer she had been battling since 2013.

"Don't say I lost the battle to breast cancer. I actually won. I won by the way I lived and the way I was loved," Wardynski is quoted as saying in July 2015.

Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Laughlin Service Funeral Home. A Celebration of Life will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Holy Spirit Catholic Church on Airport Road. The Rev. Michael Mac Mahon will officiate.

The family asks that in lieu of flowers, memorials be made to the Boys and Girls Club of North Alabama.

Wardynski was born in Chicago, Illinois on April 9, 1959. After marrying Casey Wardynski in 1981, she embraced the life of a wife and mother. The couple has three children and welcomed their first grandchild in April.

The Wardynskis lived in several places because of Casey's military assignments and academic pursuits. Before settling in Huntsville, their hometowns included West Point, New York and Boston, Massachusetts.

She began her battle with breast cancer in 2003. The illness went into remission but resurfaced in 2013.

While receiving chemotherapy, she continued her pursuits and graduated first in her class from UAH School of Nursing in 2014.