Career
Before her retirement, Husberg worked for thirty-six years as a Director in one of the 450 New York City publicly funded day care centers.
For 48 years she has been the Director of Music at St. John the Evangelist Lutheran Church, now a multicultural congregation in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. On June 10, 2000 she was presented with the SERVANT OF CHRIST award from the Atlantic District of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod for her contribution to the greater church in the field of music, specifically in the area of hymns/congregational song.
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