Obituaries
Byron P Clements
Jan 12, 2013
Byron graduated from Central H.S., then on to the US Army where he served on the west coast and in Alaska during the Korean War. He was an instructor on the 50mm guns. He returned home to help his mother on the barge when his Dad passed away in 1947. He met a young La Crosse teacher, the fetching...
Delma Arlene Hogan
Jan 8, 2013
Delma Arlene Hogan, 99, of La Crosse, died on Tuesday, January 8th, 2013 at the Gundersen Lutheran Hospice. She was born on October 7, 1913 in Pepin, WI to William and Elizabeth (Broach) Varnum. Delma grew up in Pepin and graduated from Pepin High School. She moved to La Crosse for schooling and employment, where she met and married...
Vince Thomas Riley
Jan 8, 2013
Vincent Thomas Vince Riley, 88, of La Crosse, died on Tuesday, January 8th, 2013 at the Mayo Clinic Health System La Crosse. He was born on October 6, 1924 in Waukon, IA to John and Mary (Walsh) Riley. Vince was very proud of his service in the US Army as an MP during WWII. He married Betty Dusso on...
John J Smalley
Jan 8, 2013
Dr. John J. Smalley, 76 of La Crosse died at his home on Tuesday, January 8, 2013. The eldest of three children, he was born November 18, 1936 in Chicago, IL to John J. and Katherine T. (Shimkus) Smalley. Jack attended grade school and high school in Chicago, graduating from De La Salle High School in 1954. He then...
Gloria D Zoerb
Jan 7, 2013
She married John F. Zoerb on June 9th, 1952. On their wedding night, they were kidnapped by Dave (a groomsman) and Betty Raatz to attend a La Crosse Camera Club Banquet. They were subsequently released to honeymoon in Door County, which they returned to for the next 50 years. Gloria loved to travel the country with her family, including...
Corlis W Robinson
Jan 6, 2013
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:30 am on Thursday, January 10, 2013, at The Church of the Crucifixion. Rev. Gregory Havel will officiate. Burial with military rites by the Gittens- Leidel American Legion Post 595 of La Crescent will be in the Crucifixion Cemetery. Friends may call on the family Thursday morning at the church...
Ramona Loughan
Jan 5, 2013
New Glarus, WI Ramona M. (Arenz) Loughan of New Glarus and formerly of Monticello and La Crosse, died unexpectedly at her home on Saturday, January 5, 2013. Ramona was born November 19, 1942 in La Crosse to Albert P. and Rosalia (Niesen) Arenz. She was raised on farms in Mormon Coulee before moving to La Crosse where she lived...
Morris O Kvamme
Jan 5, 2013
Our father, Morris O. Kvamme 84 of La Crosse, took his last breath in his home shortly before the Packer/Viking playoff game on Saturday, January 5, 2013. Morris was born to Myrtle (Everson) and Oliver Kvamme on September 17, 1928 in Soldiers Grove. He met and married his wife of 63 years, Audrey Techmer in La Crosse where he...
Clark G Bluske
Jan 4, 2013
Clark G. Bluske, 80 of rural Genoa, passed away at his home on Friday, January 4, 2013. He was born in La Crosse on December 23, 1932 to Hubert and Mildred (Gardner) Bluske. On April 1, 1951 Clark married Janice Chesney in Delafield, WI, and they divorced in 1970. Together they had Eight children. Later he married Edythe Dolf...
Donald R Bentz
Jan 2, 2013
Don was born February 20, 1926, in Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., to August and Anne (Cuskelly) Bentz. He joined the Navy as a radioman in 1944 and served aboard a troop landing ship in the South Pacific until 1946. After returning from the Navy, he attended the Central Wisconsin Teachers College in Stevens Point, Wis. It was there he met...
Ernest H Baker
Jan 2, 2013
Ernest H. Ernie Baker, 82 of Holmen, WI, passed away on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 at the Bethany St. Joseph Care Center in La Crosse. He was born in Stevenstown, WI, on June 23, 1930 to Melvin and Beatrice (Lovell) Baker. He married Audrey Eno on September 5, 1952 in Aberdeen, MD. Ernie had worked at NSP (Excel Energy)...
Marjorie Mae Lind
Jan 2, 2013
Marjorie (Marge) Mae Lind, 74, of La Crescent, Minnesota, passed away on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 at her home from lung cancer, which was diagnosed just four months earlier. She was born on December 28, 1938 in Chisholm, Minnesota to John and Catherine (Scaia) Grahek. Marge attended school in Chisholm until moving to Hastings, MN with her family, where...
Roderick P Johnson
Dec 31, 2012
Roderick P. Rod Johnson 88 of Onalaska, died on Monday, December 31, 2012 at the Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center. He was born in rural Onalaska on September 27, 1924 to Ben and Amie (Morse) Johnson. He married Norma L. Thompson in Onalaska on July 2, 1944 and she preceded him in death on December 14, 2009. Rod had proudly...
Joseph W Davy
Dec 29, 2012
He is survived by his wife Irene of Bluffview Memory Care in Holmen, a son Larry (Sherry) Davy of Cadillac, MI, a daughter Lynda (Steve) Christen of La Crosse, six grandchildren, Joseph (Shelly) Davy and Jana Davy of Cadillac, MI, Jolie (Garner Sackett) Lueth of Homer, Alaska, Emily (Nathan Pupp) Christen of La Crosse, Danielle (Tyler) Malay of Wauwatosa,...
Gladys M Pfennig
Dec 27, 2012
Gladys had worked as a registered nurse for Franciscan-Skemp Medical Center in La Crosse for 40 years until her retirement in 1986. She then continued as a volunteer at the hospital for many years. Gladys is survived by two grandchildren; Jeremy (Kelley) Kenyon of Corpus Christie, TX and Lesley (Erica Bowers) Kenyon of Rochester, MN; two great-grandchildren, Kayla and...
Betty J (Lafser) Meinzer
Dec 27, 2012
Betty Jane (Lafser) Meinzer, 91, of La Crosse, passed away on Thursday, December 27th 2012. Betty was born on July 19, 1921, in La Crosse to Louis C. and Ella R. (Johnson) Hess. Betty was a 1939 graduate of La Crosse Central High School. After graduation she attended Western Wisconsin Technical School of Business College and worked for a...
Dean A Dilley
Dec 26, 2012
Dean A. Deano Dilley, 55 of La Crosse, Wi, passed away at his home on Wednesday, December 26, 2012. He was born in Waterloo, Iowa on October 1, 1957 to Albert and Betty (Weber) Dilley. On August 28, 2004 he married Colleen Brown-Rask. Dean enjoyed gardening, camping and cooking but most of all making people laugh. In addition to...
Helen Weier
Dec 26, 2012
Helen Weier, 88 of La Crosse passed away in La Crosse at the home of her granddaughter on Wednesday, December 26, 2012. She was born August 19, 1924 in La Crosse to Emmett and Cora (Yehle) Loughan and graduated from Aquinas High School. On April 8, 1942 she married Arnold C. Weier in La Crosse and he preceded her...
George C O\'Kane
Dec 24, 2012
George C. Scotty OKane, 88 of La Crosse passed away Monday, December 24, 2012 at the Bethany-St. Joseph Care Center. He was born February 26, 1924 in Dumbarton, Scotland to Peter and Margaret OKane. On February 26, 1946 he married Margaret Mills in Wishaw, Lanarkshire, Scotland and she preceded him in death on November 11, 2007. They had two...
Aetas Margaret Hafner
Dec 24, 2012
Aretas Margaret Hafner, 89, of Onalaska, passed away on Monday, December 24th, 2012 at the Onalaska Care Center. She was born on February 17, 1923 to Anton and Agnes (Heintz) Ebert on Summit Ridge near Norwalk, WI. She attended Bohn Grade School and graduated from Norwalk High School in 1940. Aretas worked for many years at Sacred Heart Hospital...
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