Obituaries
Hazel Deloris Toots Anderson
Sep 11, 2019
Hazel D. "Toots" Anderson (nee Lee), age 91, died Wednesday September 11, 2019. Hazel D. "Toots" Anderson (nee Lee), age 91, passed away on September 11, 2019 at Bethany Riverside in La Crosse, surrounded by her loving family and caregivers. Hazel was born on February 8, 1928 to Oscar and Inga (Solberg) Lee. She married Hilmer Anderson on July...
Donna Jean Smith
Sep 11, 2019
Donna Jean Smith age 88 of LaFarge WI died Wednesday September 11, 2019. Donna Jean (Clark) Smith, 88, of La Farge, Wisconsin, passed away peacefully in her home the morning of Wednesday, September 11, 2019, after a brief illness. She was born August 11, 1931, near Dell, WI, to the late Omer and Nellie Clark, the youngest of their...
Roger Dale Springborn, Sr.
Sep 10, 2019
Roger Springborn age 71 of Red Mound and DeSoto died Tuesday September 10, 2019. Roger was born in Viroqua, WI on January 15, 1948 to Herman and Esther (Warren) Springborn. Roger was a family man, first and formost. He married Valerie Jean Johnson on March 19, 1983 in Springville. He was a father to seven wonderful children, to whom...
Morris A. Engh
Sep 10, 2019
Morris A. Engh, age 92 formerly of Westby, died Tuesday September 10, 2019. Morris Ardell Engh, 92 of Westby, passed away peacefully on September 10, 2019 at the home of his son Rohn in Spokane, WA. He was born in Westby on Melby Street, March 28, 1927 to Anna Mathilda Engh. His father Morris Hoff had been killed in...
Mary Widner
Sep 7, 2019
Mary Widner, 79, of Avalanche, rural Viroqua, died Monday, September 7, 2015. Mary Catherine (Clarke) Widner, of Avalanche, Wisconsin passed away Monday, September 7 surrounded by family at the Bland Bekkedal Center for Hospice Care. Mary was the epitome of beauty, class and love. Though born October 5, 1935 at Martha Washington Hospital, Cook County Chicago, Illinois, to James...
Robert Eugene Bob Benish
Sep 4, 2019
Robert Eugene Benish age 55 of the LaFarge and Ontario area, died Wednesday September 4, 2019. Robert Eugene Benish age 55 of the LaFarge and Ontario area, died Wednesday September 4, 2019 at the Bland Bekkedal Center for Hospice Care in Viroqua. Bob was born December 24, 1963 as the first child of William (Bill) and Marilyn Benish. After...
Helen L Zitzner
Sep 2, 2019
Helen Louise (nee Runice) Zitzner, 92, of Viroqua, died Tuesday, September 2, 2014 at Vernon Manor in Viroqua. Helen was born in Crawford County to Alfred and Ida (Olson) Runice. She graduated from Lansing High School in 1940. On September 5th, 1942 she was united in marriage to Orbin Zitzner. They farmed in Franklin Township for 50 years before...
James F. Martin
Aug 31, 2019
James F. Martin August 31 2005 James F. Martin of Ferryville, Wisconsin died Wednesday, August 31 at the age of 77 at Vernon Manor, Viroqua. He was born March 21, 1928 in Oak Park, IL to James and Gertrude (Anderson) Martin. He was married to Jean Simkus on March 7, 1953. In addition to his wife Jean, Jim is...
Mary Ellen Bennet
Aug 29, 2019
Mary Ellen Bennet, age 64 of Viroqua, died Thursday August 29, 2019. Mary Ellen Bennet, age 64 of Viroqua, died at home Thursday August 29, 2019, surrounded by her loving family and caregivers. Mary Ellen Bennet was born on September 29, 1954 at Viroqua Memorial Hospital to Mac and Shirley Marshall who preceded her in death. She is the...
Gary Miles Jacobson
Aug 27, 2019
Gary Miles Jacobson, age 77 of Westby, died Tuesday August 27, 2019. Gary Jacobson, age 77 of Westby, died Tuesday, August 27, 2019 surrounded by loving family at Gundersen Lutheran Hospital. Gary was born on July 5, 1942 in Westby, WI to Edwin and Marian (Galstad) Jacobson. He was baptized and confirmed at Westby Coon Prairie Lutheran Church in...
Ramona Jean Skrede
Aug 26, 2019
Ramona Skrede, age 73 of Viroqua, died Monday August 26, 2019. Ramona Jean Skrede, lovingly known as Mo, age 73, died Monday evening, August 26, 2019, at her home in Viroqua. Ramona was born on July 6, 1946 in Richland Center to Grant and Alma (Jacobson) Smith. She grew up in the Viroqua area, attending the Van Wagner school...

Rebecca Hinkley Smythe
Aug 26, 2019
Rebecca Hinkley Smythe, August 26 ,2005 Rebecca Hinkley Smythe, known to all as Becky, died Friday, August 26 at noon in her home in the presence of family and friends. She was born December 14, 1956 at St. Lukes Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota to parents Duane and Theodora Hinkley. The fourth of five Hinkley children, she attended schools...
Fred Tom Tower
Aug 22, 2019
Fred Tower, age 77 of Ferryville WI, died Thursday August 22, 2019. Fred Thomas Honest Tom Tower, age 77 of Ferryville WI, passed away at home Thursday, August 22, 2019, surrounded by his loving family and caregivers. Tom was born in LaCrosse WI on October 16, 1941 to John H. and Beulah Raye (Cox) Tower. He was a graduate...
Ronald Kent Buckles
Aug 19, 2019
Ronald Kent Buckles, age 78 of Stoddard, died Monday August 19, 2019. Ronald Kent Buckles, 78, of Stoddard, passed away peacefully at his home on Monday August 19, 2019, surrounded by his loving family. He was born June 15, 1941 in Viroqua, WI to Henry and Jennie Fae (Robinson) Buckles. Ronald was baptized and confirmed at the North West...
Ernest Laverne Rundle
Aug 17, 2019
Ernest 'Ernie' LaVerne Rundle, age 86 of Soldiers Grove, died Saturday August 17, 2019. Ernie was born in Madison WI, on February 8, 1933, to LaVern Ernest and Evelyn Magdalean (Gunderson) Rundle. He graduated from Soldiers Grove High School in 1951. He married Virginia Foss on November 24, 1950. After Virginia died, he found love again with his best...
Irene M. Riley
Aug 16, 2019
Irene M. (Olson) Riley, age 72 of Viroqua, died Friday August 16, 2019. Irene Marlene (Olson) Riley, age 72 of Viroqua, died Friday August 16th, 2019 at the Bland Bekkedal Center for Hospice Care. She had been diagnosed with gastric cancer at the end of 2018 and courageously endured chemotherapy and radiation. Even though the disease and treatment were...
Weston Dewayne Wes Mack
Aug 13, 2019
VIROQUA Weston DeWayne Wes Mack, age 78 of Viroqua, died Tuesday August 13, 2019. Weston Wes DeWayne Mack, age 78 of Viroqua, died Tuesday August 13, 2019 surrounded by loving family and caregivers at the Bland Bekkedal Center for Hospice Care in Viroqua. Wes went to his eternal home after a brief battle with multiple myeloma. Wes was born...

Cleyola Marsene Sherry Mellem
Aug 11, 2019
Cleyola Mellem, age 96 of Viroqua, died Sunday August 11, 2019 at Bethel Home. Cleyola Marsene (Sherry) Mellem age 96 of Viroqua, died Sunday August 11, 2019 at Bethel Home. Cleyola was born in Vernon County, rural Viroqua, on April 20, 1923, to Earl and Nora (Johnson) Sherry. She grew up in the Viroqua area and graduated from Viroqua...
Laverne Olga Plantz
Aug 4, 2019
LaVerne Olga Plantz, age 86 of Viroqua, died Sunday August 4, 2019. LaVerne Olga Plantz, age 86, of Viroqua, Wisconsin, passed away Sunday, August 4, 2019, at the Greenfield House near Tomah, WI. She was born April 23, 1933, in Appleton, MN to John and Olga (Zemple) Roeder. She spent most of her childhood growing up in Minnesota. After...
Myrna J. Callaway
Jul 30, 2019
Myrna J. Callaway, age 76 of Readstown, died Tuesday July 30, 2019. Myrna was born in Mauston, WI to Phillip and Dorothy (Hahn) Markgraf on March 27th, 1943. She was raised in Kendall, WI her whole life where she attended elementary school all the way through high school. She married Frank Callaway on April 13th, 1964. They then moved...
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