Obituaries in Ripon, WI
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Eunice Lovejoy
December 10, 1997
Miss Eunice Lovejoy, age 95, formerly of Ripon, died December 10, 199, at the Omro Care Center.She was born December 11, 1901, in Mackford Prairie, Green Lake County, a daughter to Bert and Mary Lovejoy. She was a graduate of both Ripon High School and Ripon College, and was a school teacher and librarian at Ripon High School. She lived...
Anna Wrzinski
December 7, 1997
Anna M. Wrzinski, age 73, of Ripon, died Sunday, December 7, 1997, at University Hospital, Madison.She was born February 14, 1924, in Sun Prairie, a daughter to Joseph and Julia Vranak. She received her schooling in Sun Prairie. On May 18, 1945, she married Alfred Wrzinski. Anna spent most of her life in Ripon where she was a laundry supervisor...
Elizabeth Nitz
December 2, 1997
Elizabeth V. Nitz, age 78, of Ripon, went with the angels to her Eternal Home on December 2, 1997, at the Berlin Memorial Hospital.She was born on July 8, 1919, in Berlin, the first daughter to Frank and Anna Disterhaft. She was schooled in the Berlin and Neshkoro School Districts. In 1944, Elizabeth married Walter Nitz and they resided in...
William Rose Sr.
November 27, 1997
William Harold Rose, Sr, age 92 of Ripon, died Thursday, November 27, 1997, at Parkview Care Center, Ripon.He was born August 26, 1905, in LaCrosse, a son to Daniel and Mamie (Loomis) Rose, Sr. He was educated in LaCrosse, and on June 10, 1924, he married the former Lena Alice Christ in Waukegan, IL. During his working years, in the...
Elsie Hall
November 26, 1997
Elsie H. Hall, age 79, of Ripon, died Wednesday, November 26, 1997, at Parkview Care Center, Ripon.She was born in Rosendale on October 4, 1918, the daughter of William and Leona (Krueger) Hagemann. She was educated in the Ripon Schools. On June 2, 1944, she married Lowell “Scotty” Hall and they spent their married years in Ripon. Elsie was a...
David Bitters
November 26, 1997
David Denison Bitters, age 38, of 334 E. Water Street, Ripon, died on November 26, 1997, at Theda Clark Regional Medical Center in Neenah, WI.He was born August 20, 1959, in Oshkosh, WI to Eugene A. and Constance W. Bitters. David graduated from Ripon High School in 1978, attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison for three years, and earned...
Esther Bent
November 25, 1997
Mary Esther (Limbach) Bent, age 79, of Ripon, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, November 25, 1997. Born January 20, 1918, in Anamosa, Iowa, a daughter of Clifford and Cora Brooks French. She attended schools in Iowa, Louisiana and Illinois, and graduated from Ripon College in 1940. On October 18, 1940, at her parents’ home in Chicago, she married John Phillip...
Joseph Johnston
November 21, 1997
Joseph Johnston, 72, of Green Lake, passed away on November 21, 1997, at Ripon Medical Center, Ripon. Joseph was born on February 14, 1925, the son of Joseph E. and Sadie (Larkin) Johnston. He worked as an Industrial Engineer. Seervices and burial will be in DePlaines, IL.
Jean Stroede
November 19, 1997
Jean M. (Golz) Stroede, age 66, of Fond du Lac, WI, went home to Jesus on November 19, 1997, at St. Agnes Hospital in Fond du Lac. She was born June 18, 1931, in Dell Prairie Township, Adams Co., a daughter to the late William and Anna (Hubert) Golz. She graduated from high school in Oxford, and in 1948, she...
Gregory Smack Iii
November 19, 1997
Gregory L. Smack III, 3-month-old infant, son of Gregory Smack Jr. and Shana Roehl, died Wednesday, November 19, 1997, at home. He was born August 4, 1997, in Norfolk, VA, a son to Gregory Smack Jr. and Shana Roehl, and the family moved to Ripon three weeks ago. He is survived by his parents, sister, Natasha and twin brother, Jordan,...
Harold Nelson
November 16, 1997
Harold K. Nelson, age 79, died Sunday, November 16, 1997, at the Fond du Lac County Health Care Center. He was born in Milwaukee, WI on August 26, 1918, to Lawrence and Ethel (Page) Nelson. He attended school in Platteville and served in the U.S. Air Force. Most of his working years he was a drafting mechanical engineer at Oscar...
Ted Kostka
November 10, 1997
Ted C. Kostka, 89, of Green Lake, died November 10, 1997, at his home in Green Lake. Ted was born on December 9, 1907, the son of Felix and Nellie (Christiansen) Kostka in Santa Barbar, CAA.He married Violet Franson.
Vera Hoth
November 9, 1997
Vera Hoth, 75, of Ripon, died Sunday November 9, 1997, at Parkview Care Center.Vera was born on March 3, 1922, in Manchester, England the daughter of Charles and Alice (McNiff) Ganson. She attended school in Manchester. In 1945, she married the late Raymond William Lunzmann and they moved to the United States, where she became a citizen. In 1965, Vera...
Esther Krueger
November 7, 1997
Esther E. Krueger, 89, of Ripon died Friday November 7, 1997, at Parkview Care Center.Esther was born on December 11, 1907, the daughter of Carl and Marie (Helmer) Dahms in the Town of Brooklyn, Green Lake County. She attended school in the town of Brooklyn. Esther was a member of Our Saviour’s United Church of Christ in Ripon and a...
Kristopher Greening
November 2, 1997
Kristopher John Greening, age 15, of Ripon, was taken by the Lord on Sunday, November 2, 1997 at Ripon Medical Center, Ripon as a result of a car accident.Kris was born December 9, 1981, in West Allis, and has lived in Ripon since 1983. Kris was a high honors student throughout his school years, and was very active in many...
Tiffany Finley-Eichstedt
October 26, 1997
Tiffany Finley Eichstedt, born September 24, 1977, entered into eternal rest on October 26, 1997, in Houston, TX, after a long courageous struggle with cancer.Her journey’s just begun:Don’t think of her as gone away, her journey’s just begun, life holds so many facets, this earth is only one.Just think of her as resting from the sorrows and the tears, and...
Florence Barclay
October 25, 1997
Florence Barclay, 76, of Ripon, died Saturday October 25, 1997, at All about Life Rehabilitation Center in Fond du Lac.On February 28, 1921, Florence was born the daughter of Reinhold and Elsie (Bierman) Luedke. She graduated from Ripon High School in 1938, and married John Franklin Barclay Ill. They resided in the Ripon area where she was employed at the...
Wilhelmine Reinecke
October 25, 1997
Wilhelmine Louise Reinecke, age 82, resident of Michalene’s in Ripon, died Saturday, October 25, 1997, at Ripon Medical Center.She was born July 25, 1915, in Chicago, IL, a daughter to the late Julius and Wilhelmine (Papak) Bauer. She graduated from high school in Chicago, and worked as a secretary in a business office. On April 4, 1981, she married Lester...
Donald Wilke
October 23, 1997
Donald R. Wilke, 74, of the Town of Green Lake, died unexpectedly Thursday, October 23, 1997 at Ripon Medical Center.He was born December 22, 1922, in Ripon, a son to the late Reinhardt and Ella (Splittgerber) Wilke. He was a graduate of Ripon High School. In September 1960, he married the former Florene Ketteler. Don farmed all his life on...
Elsie Gransee
October 21, 1997
Elsie Nelson Gransee, age 86, died Tuesday, October 21, 1997, in San Rafael, CA. A native of Milltown, WI, she was born October 6, 1911. She married Orville Gransee in 1937, and he passed away in 1974. Elsie lived in Novata, CA, where she was a longtime member of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church and taught Bible Fellowship in the 1970’s....
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