Obituaries in Ripon, WI
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Clara Sunderland
April 14, 1998
Clara E. Sunderland, 81, Green Lake, died Tuesday, April 14, 1998, at Juliette Manor Nursing Home in Berlin.She was born May 4, 1916, in Winnebago Co., the daughter of Fred and Tillie (Weiss) Wesner. She lived in the Green Lake area and attended Green Lake schools prior to moving to Chicago where she received her nurses training to become a...

William "Harpo" Tracy
April 6, 1998
William Harpo Henry Tracy, age 72, of Ripon, died Monday, April 6, 1998, at Parkview Care Center, Ripon after a short stay.He was born December 3, 1925, in Tripoli, WI, a son to the late William and Neva (Bromely) Tracy. He received his education in Merrill, and served in the Army during 1942-1945. The past 8 years he has lived...

Jerry Kohnke
April 5, 1998
Jerry Kohnke, age 50, of Ripon, died Sunday, April 5, 1998, at his home.He was born November 16, 1947, in Ripon, a son of the late Arthur W. and Evelyn (Warren) Kohnke. He attended school in Ripon, and from April 1967, until his retirement the end of December 1997, Jerry had worked as a MPP Mechanic at Mercury Marine in...

John Draeger
March 28, 1998
John D. Draeger, 75, of Ripon, died Saturday March 28, 1998, at his home.Born March 6, 1923, in Montello, Wisconsin to Herman and Clara (Klawitter) Draeger. Married Mary Ann Mlodzik September 25, 1946, at St. John the Baptist Church in Princeton. A U.S. Army veteran of World War II, he proudly served his country for three years. He retired from...

Woodrow Stellmacher
March 25, 1998
Woodrow John Stellmacher, 85, longtime resident of Ripon, died March 25, 1998, at Parkview Care Center, Ripon where he has lived the past 7 years.He was born December 24, 1912, in the Town of Metomen, the son ofGeorge and Jessie (Sattler) Stellmacher. He received his education in the Town of Metomen. On March 7, 1937, he married the former Everdine...

Margaret Mcculloch
March 22, 1998
Margaret (Marge) Ruth McCulloch, age 77, of Markesan, died Sunday, March 22, 1998, at Parkview Care Center, Ripon.She was born November 15, 1920, in North Fond du Lac, WI. She was the daughter of the late John and Mary (Lang) Gorman. After her mothers death, she was raised by her mothers sister, Bertha Johnson. She was married May 23, 1963,...

Georgia Pappas
March 21, 1998
Georgia Pappas, 95, died Saturday, March 21, 1998, at Parkview Care Center in Ripon where she has resided the past 5 years due to Alzheimers.She was born August 15, 1902, in Gargalonis, Greece, the daughter of Louis and Zoe (Argera) Booras. The family came to Boston, MA in 1916, and then later moved to Rhinelander, WI. She married John Pappas...

Eleanor Mason
March 20, 1998
Eleanor J. Mason, age 73, of Ripon, WI died March 20, 1998, at Columbia Hospital in Milwaukee.She was born October 22, 1924, in Montezuma, Iowa, a daughter of Sid and Blanche Weber Wheeler. She was educated in the Montezuma Schools, attended the college of Northern Iowa, and moved to Ripon in 1951. On November 21, 194, she married William J....

Alice Hazlewood
March 19, 1998
Alice M. Hazlewood, age 89, of Ripon, died Thursday, March 19, 1998, at Parkview Care Center, Ripon.She was born June 18, 1908, in the Town of Green Lake, a daughter to the late William and Florence (Bazeley) Hill. She was a graduate of Ripon High School. She married Edward Amos Hazlewood on August 7, 1937, in Crown Point, IN. For...

Doris Milne
March 18, 1998
Doris M. Milne, age 78, of Ripon, died March 18, 1998, at Parkview Care Center in Ripon.She was born July 24, 1919, in Plainfield, a daughter to Frank and Hazel (Knight) Milne. She received her education in Plainfield, spent many years in Lind Center, and the last 8 years lived in Ripon. For much of her life, Doris acted as...

Lillian Spychalla
March 16, 1998
Lillian May Spychalla, 86, formerly of Ripon, died Monday, March 16, 1998, at Annas House at the Markesan Resident Home.She was born June 15, 1911, in Abbottsford, a daughter to the late Walter and Bertha (Bond) Peterson. She received her education in Abbottsford. Lillian had lived in Ripon most of her life, and was a seamstress at Fox River Glove....

Oscar Radke, Jr.
March 14, 1998
Oscar Louis Radke, Jr., 79, of Ripon, died Saturday, March 14, 1998, at St. Agnes Hospital in Fond du Lac.He was born July 29, 1918, in rural Ripon, a son of the late Oscar and Gertrude (Kloehn) Radke, Sr. He was educated in Ripon and was a graduate of Ripon High School. On September 1, 1940, he married Marion Krueger...

Naomi Buslaff Beerheide
March 10, 1998
Naomi Buslaff Beerheide, 83, formerly of Ripon, went home to heaven Tuesday evening, March 10, 1998, at the Mayville Nursing & Rehabilitation Center.Naomi was born on October 4, 1914, in Green Bay, the daughter of Leon and Frieda (Lindner) Lambert. She was united in marriage to Arthur C. Buslaff on April 18, 1938, and they moved to Ripon in early...

James Krause
March 7, 1998
James A. Krause, 55, of 425 Jefferson St., Omro, died unexpectedly Saturday, March 7, 1998, at his home.Jim was born May 28, 1942, in Kewaunee, WI, the son of Alois and Pauline (Benesch) Krause. He graduated from Mishicot High School and attended U. W. Oshkosh before entering the Wisconsin Institute of Mortuary Science in Milwaukee. Jim married the former Mary...

Michele Mccartney
March 3, 1998
Michele McCartney, 32, of Bethany, MO, formerly of Ripon, WI, died Tuesday, March 3, 1998, as a result of a traffic accident in Coffey, MO.She was born September 16, 1965, in Ripon, WI, a daughter to Keith and Eileen (Agnew) Stapel. She was a graduate of Ripon High School. Michele had lived in Houston, TX for 10 years prior to...

John Bumby
March 3, 1998
John Edgar Bumby, age 77, of Ripon, passed away Tuesday, March 3, 1998, at Ripon, WI.He was born August 17, 1920, in Ripon, a son to the late Horace A. and Merle (Hockenbery) Bumby. He received 9 years of education in the Ripon Schools and 3 years at St. Johns Military Academy. He attended the UW-Madison prior to serving in...

Chris Hauman
March 1, 1998
Chris J Hauman age 83 died unexpectedly at Parkview Nursing Home on March 1, 1998, in Ripon.He was born November 10, 1914, in Berlin, WI, a son to Henry and Catherine (Schneider) Hauman. On June 26, 1937, he married Agnes Nigbor and they made their home in Berlin where they resided for 57 years prior to moving to Ripon. He...

Russell Stewart
February 28, 1998
Russell Stewart, 81, of Ripon, died Saturday, February 28, 1998, at Parkview Care Center in Ripon.Russell was born the son of Charles A. and Ruth B. (Somers) Stewart, April 13, 1916, at Portage, WI. He was a graduate of Portage High School and U.W. Madison. He served in the military from 1941-1945, as a technical sergeant of the 744th Bomb...

Violet Kostka
February 24, 1998
Violet Hennrietta Kostka, 83, of Green Lake, passed away on February 24, 1998, at her home.Violet was born on August 20, 1914 in Norwood Park Township, Cook Co. IL the daughter of Gust and Dagmar (Hansen) Franson. She married Ted Kostka on August 17, 1940.

Reuben Grahn
February 23, 1998
Reuben James Grahn, 66, of the Town of Ripon, died unexpectedly Monday, February 23, 1998, at Ripon Medical Center.He was born May 6, 1931, in Oshkosh, a son to Christian and Jessie (Booher) Grahn. He grew up in the Green Lake area and was a 1949, graduate of Green Lake High School. On August 16, 1952, he married the former...
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