Obituaries
Gertrude Trudy Dugan
Apr 19, 2017
Gertrude (Trudy) Dugan, age 96, of Viroqua, died Wednesday, April 19, 2017. Gertrude (Trudy) Dugan, age 96, of Viroqua, died Wednesday, April 19, 2017 at Vernon Memorial Hospital. Trudy was born August 1, 1920 on a farm in Boaz, WI to Sheldon and Iva (Popp) Glick. She spent her elementary school years growing up in the Blue River, WI...
Larry Bolster, Sr
Apr 19, 2017
Larry L. Bolster, age 76, of DeSoto, died Wednesday April 19, 2017. Larry L. Bolster, age 76, of DeSoto, died Wednesday, April 19, 2017 at Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center in La Crosse, WI Larry was born on April 9, 1941 at the farmstead in Coulee Valley in Wisconsin to Arthur and Clara (Cox) Bolster. He was a graduate of...
Lillian Alverda Stigen
Apr 15, 2017
WESTBY Lillian A Stigen, age 99, of Westby died Saturday April 15, 2017 at Norseland Nursing Home. Lillian was born on August 21, 1917, in La Crosse, WI to Martin and Mabel (Swenson) Schye. She was baptized and confirmed in Coon Prairie Church. She graduated from Westby High School, the class of 1935. Lillian married LeRoy Stigen on June...
Edith Buros
Apr 12, 2017
WESTBY Edith Charlotte Genevive Buros, age 89 of Westby, died Wednesday, April 12, 2017 at the Norseland Nursing Home in Westby. She was born on December 19, 1927 in the township of Jefferson, Vernon County, Wisconsin to Nordahl and Julia (Tollacson) Buros. She attended South Natwick rural school and graduated from Westby High School in 1945. Edith worked for...
Lynn Diane Stanton
Apr 11, 2017
WESTBY Lynn Diane Stanton, age 63, of Westby, died Tuesday April 11, 2017 at Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center in La Crosse. Lynn was born in Rockford IL on May 31, 1953 to George and Marjorie (Hayden) Haller. She graduated with a bachelors degree from Illinois State University, located in Normal, IL, although Lynn called it Abnormal, IL. As a...
Joyce Fryseth
Apr 11, 2017
Joyce Fryseth, 84, of Ferryville, died Tuesday, April 11, 2017. Joyce Fryseth, 84, passed with peace and grace on April 11, 2017 with her family at her side. Joyce was born in Crawford County on July 26, 1932, and attended Gays Mills High School. On November 8, 1950, she married Norman Fryseth of Ferryville where she enjoyed sewing, crochet,...
Paul James Pj Lomas
Apr 10, 2017
SOLDIERS GROVE Paul James PJ Lomas, age 91, of Soldiers Grove, died Monday April 10, 2017, at Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center in La Crosse, WI. PJ, as he was known by his friends, was born on April 2, 1926 to Jule and Hazel (Wilkenson) Lomas at their farm on Halverson Ridge. He lived there until he was 8 or...
Doris Hysel
Apr 8, 2017
Doris Hysel, 85, of Viroqua, died Saturday, April 8, 2017. Doris was born in Viroqua on February 21, 1932 to Thomas and Leota (Parr) Lyons. She attended and graduated from West Lima High School. Doris was a baptized member of the Jehovahs Witness Congregation. She met Donald Hysel and they were married on June 21, 1954. Together they farmed...
Lucita Lucy Vaiciunas
Apr 8, 2017
Lucita "Lucy" Vaiciunas, 75, of Soldiers Grove, died Saturday, April 8, 2017. Lucy was born on September 9, 1941 in Davao City, Mindanao, in the Philippines to Pablo and Victoria (Lumain) Villasica. She graduated from San Pedro Nursing School in Davao City. Lucy moved to the United States in 1979. She met George Vaiciunas in Chicago and they were...
Patricia Smith
Apr 2, 2017
Patricia 'Pat' Smith, age 80, died Sunday April 2, 2017. On March 31st, 2017, Patricia Benjamin Smith of Viroqua declared that she was going to "die today". She did not, in fact, die that day, and could not die on April 1st as that would be too cruel of an April Fools joke. Pat, known affectionately by her family...
Lola Jean West
Mar 31, 2017
VIROQUA Lola Jean (Haffa) West, age 94, died Friday March 31, 2017 at Bethel Home in Viroqua, Wisconsin. Jean was born in Soldiers Grove WI, on September 24, 1922 to Frederick and Bernice (Alexander) Haffa. After her father died at the age of 26, Jean, her sister Ginger and their mother made their home with Grandma Erie Alexander. This...
Karen Johnson
Mar 29, 2017
Karen K Johnson, age 70, of Gays Mills died March 29, 2017. Karen was born in Madison WI to Floyd and Virginia (Cordary) Tarbox on September 9, 1946. She was a graduate of Oregon High School in Madison. She married John Johnson on June 3, 1967. Together they raised two boys, Scott and Brian. Karen was a long time...
Janice Chessman
Mar 24, 2017
Janice Chessman, 90, of Gays Mills, died Friday, March 24, 2017. Janice Chessman, 90, of Gays Mills, WI, passed peacefully March 24, 2017 in Viroqua, Wi. Janice was born in Detroit, Michigan on March 15, 1927 to Emanuel and Helen (Kuschel) Welandt. She attended school in Detroit and went on to Elmhurst College in Elmhurst, Illinois to study nursing....
Richard Boland
Mar 24, 2017
Richard Boland, 65, of Seneca, died Friday, March 24, 2017. Richard "Dick" Mark Boland, 65 of Seneca passed away, surrounded by family, to be with God on Friday, March 24, 2017. He was born on July 26, 1951 in Prairie du Chien, WI to Daniel and Mary Rita (Finley) Boland. He married Susan Schreck, of Seneca, on August 4th1979...
Ruth Ann Kvigne
Mar 22, 2017
GAYS MILLS Ruth Ann Kvigne passed away Wednesday, March 22, 2017, at Sannes Skogdalen Nursing Home, Soldiers Grove, WI. Ruth Ann (Turnmire) Kvigne was born September 2, 1929 at her home on a farm in Barnum, WI, to Grant and Rosetta (Smith) Turnmire. She was a graduate of Soldiers Grove High School. On October 19, 1957 she married the...
Hubert Bud Parr
Mar 20, 2017
Hubert "Bud" Parr, 84, died on Monday, March 20, 2017. Hubert "Bud" Wayne Parr, age 84 of DeSoto and formerly of rural Westby, died Monday, March 20, 2017 at his home. He was born on January 20, 1933 to Hugh "Tate" and Olga (Martinson) Parr. He graduated from Westby High School and attended Vernon Co Normal School and received...
Lola Jean Anderson
Mar 19, 2017
BROOKFIELD / WESTBY Anderson, Lola 'Jean' Born into eternal life at age 90, Lola 'Jean' passed away March 19, 2017. Jean was the loving and cherished wife of the late Donald H. Anderson for 65 years. Jean was raised in Westby, WI, a 1944 graduate of Westby High. She graduated from Madison College in business and attended UW Madison...
Joel Volden
Mar 15, 2017
WESTBY Joel P. Volden, age 85, died Wednesday March 15, 2017 at his home surrounded by his family. Joel was born April 1, 1931 to Hjalmer and Palma (Hansen) Volden in Westby. He went to school through the 8th grade and then stayed and helped his father on the farm, and numerous other farms, before enlisting into the U.S....
Dorothy Ames
Mar 10, 2017
Dorothy Ames, 99, of Viola, died Friday, March 10, 2017. Dorothy H. Ames, 99, of Viola, passed away on Friday, March 10, 2017 at Schmitt Woodland Hills. She was born on May 26, 1917, the daughter of Richard and Hazel (Nevel) Craig in Dayton township in Richland Center. As a young lady she took an active role in helping...
Lori Nee Olson Vielma
Mar 10, 2017
Mexico / Westby Lori Ann (Olson) Vielma, 56, passed away Friday, March 10, 2017 in Cancun, Mexico. She was born in Viroqua on May 12, 1960 to Ivan and Gloria (Hooverson) Olson. Lori was baptized by Rev. O.M. Kleven and confirmed by Rev. LaVerne Nelson at Westby Coon Prairie Lutheran Church. On February 14, 1986 she was united in...
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