Obituaries

Mary Lou Schlegel

Mary Lou Schlegel

Aug 2, 2016

Mary Lou Schlegel,75, of Westby, died Tuesday, August 2, 2016. Mary Lou Schlegel (Spangenberg) was born on November 17, 1940 to the very happy parents of Lawrence Spangenberg and Olivia Lundgren in Wolford Township, MN. Brothers and sisters Bud, Luella, Evelyn, and Bonnie completed the family. The family moved to Beloit and Mary Lou graduated from Beloit Memorial High...

Kay Bolstad

Kay Bolstad

Aug 1, 2016

Kay Bolstad, 65, of De Soto, died Monday, August 1, 2016. Kay was born April 29, 1951 to Orie and Coral (Revel) Hanson. She married Richard Bolstad on August 19th, 1968 in Missouri. Kay loved spending time in the garden and cooking up delicious meals with the raised produce. You could often find her engaed in a rousing game...

Vivian Conaway

Vivian Conaway

Jul 31, 2016

Vivian Conaway passed away on July 31, 2016 in Eldergarden facility at Bethel Home in Viroqua after a long battle with Lewy Body Dementia. Viv was born on Valentines Day in 1940. She is the oldest child of Melvin and Margaret Proksch who were farmers near Chaseburg WI. Vivian attended a one room school house for all of her...

Eldon Erickson

Eldon Erickson

Jul 31, 2016

Viroqua Eldon J. Erickson, age 93, died Sunday July, 31 2016 at Norseland Nursing Home in Westby, WI. Eldon was born on November 7, 1922 in Viroqua, to Oscar and Jeanette (Dahl) Erickson. After attending White Pigeon Schools Eldon went on to serve his country during WWII. He served in the US Army in the Pacific Theater. He came...

Jeanette Curry

Jeanette Curry

Jul 24, 2016

Jeanette Curry, age 75, died Sunday July 24, 2016 at Bethel Home in Viroqua. Jeanette Ruth Curry, age 75, died Sunday July 24, 2016 at Bethel Home and Services in Viroqua. She was born on December 9, 1940 in Monroe, WI to Raymond and Hulda (Jaggi) Hefty. Jeanette was united in marriage on May 1, 1970 in Lodi, WI...

Viola L. Luedtke

Viola L. Luedtke

Jul 17, 2016

Prairie du Chien Viola L. Luedtke, age 89, of Prairie du Chien passed away on Sunday, July 17, 2016 at the Vernon Memorial Hospital, in Viroqua. Viola was born October 5, 1926 in Santa Anna, Texas. The daughter of Richard and Cora (Younts) Earnhardt, she married Robert E. Luedtke on August 18,1942. She worked for 32 years at, and...

Fred Constalie

Fred Constalie

Jul 13, 2016

Fred Constalie, 76, of Westby, died July 13, 2016 at the Bland Bekkedal Center for Hospice Care. He was born June 8, 1940 to Stanley and Pauline (Oium) Constalie. After graduating from Westby High School, where he participated in sports and music, he joined the family plumbing company working with his grandfather, father, uncle, and cousin. He eventually became...

Camilla Grimsled

Camilla Grimsled

Jul 9, 2016

Camilla L. Grimsled, age 97, died Saturday July 9, 2016 at Vernon Manor in Viroqua. She was born on November 6, 1918 in Woodman WI, in Grant Co. to Jonathan and Mertie (Walker) Payne. She was united in marriage to Arnold Elmer Grimsled at Southwest Prairie Lutheran Church rural Ferryville, WI the day after her birthday on November 7,...

Ilene Mellem

Ilene Mellem

Jul 2, 2016

Ilene Mellem, 80, of Readstown, died Saturday, July 2, 2016. Ilene G. Mellem, age 80, of Readstown, died on Saturday, July 2, 2016, in the Sannes Skogdalen Heim Nursing Home, Soldiers Grove, surrounded by her loving family. She was born on December 14, 1935, in Clayton Township, the daughter of Leland and Edith (Olson) Olson. Ilene was a graduate...

Edna Eddi Blakley

Edna Eddi Blakley

Jul 2, 2016

Edna "Eddi" Blakley, 70, of Viola, died Saturday, July 2, 2016. Eddi Blakley was born in Richland Center, WI on March 22, 1946. She was raised and spent her entire childhood on the family farm on Spangler Ridge Road where she was affectionately known as Peewee by her father. She graduated as a member of the last class to...

Harriet Aspenson Delap

Harriet Aspenson Delap

Jun 30, 2016

VIROQUA, WI Harriet Aspenson DeLap, age 96, died June 30, 2016 at Vernon Memorial Hospital in Viroqua. Harriet Aspenson DeLap, 96, of Viroqua, died Thursday, June 30, 2016. She was born on April 29, 1920 to Glen and Edith (Thompson) Mullen. After graduating from Viroqua High School Harriet attended the Minnesota School of Business. She moved back to Viroqua...

Alex Everhart

Alex Everhart

Jun 21, 2016

Alex Everhart, 23, of Cashton, died Tuesday, June 21, 2016. Alex Daniel Everhart, 23, of Cashton, passed away at his home on Tuesday, June 21, 2016. He was born on May 13, 1993 in Viroqua to Kimberly (Bekkum) and Kevin Everhart. In 2011 he graduated from Cashton High School. He worked at the family business, K&K Cheese, from the...

Agnes Morkrid

Agnes Morkrid

Jun 20, 2016

Agnes O. Thompson-Morkrid, age 98, passed away Monday June 20, 2016 at Vernon Manor in Viroqua. Agnes was born August 23, 1917 to Harvey and Erma (Osborne) Fish in Viroqua. She was baptized at Bad Axe Lutheran Church. She was a member of the Viroqua United Methodist Church where she enjoyed listening to the Sunday services on the radio....

Marvalene Burt

Marvalene Burt

Jun 17, 2016

Marvalene Burt, 93, of Viroqua, died Friday, June 17, 2016. Marvalene M. Burt, 93, of Viroqua, passed away Friday morning at Gundersen Health Facility in La Crosse surrounded by the family she loved so much. She was born Nov. 7, 1922 near West Lima, rural Vernon County, to Burrell and Glennye (Braithwaite) Coy. Marvalenes father died when she was...

Audrey Berg

Audrey Berg

Jun 16, 2016

Audrey R.B. Berg, 90 of Westby, passed away on Thursday, June 16, 2016 at Norseland Nursing Home. Audrey was born September 17, 1925 in the Town of Coon to Alf and Ella (Fredrickson) Barstad. She graduated from Westby High School in 1943. On May 29, 1945 she was united in marriage to Orbin Berg. They farmed the first three...

Wilma Terry Hoesly

Wilma Terry Hoesly

Jun 8, 2016

Wilma Inez Hoesly, also known as "Terry", 98, of 185 Elmwood Lane, Naples, Florida died at 3:51 A.M. on Wednesday, June 8, 2016 at the Hidenwood Retirement Community in Newport News, Virginia. Mrs Hoesly was born in Rockford, Illinois on December 17, 1917 to William and Ina Frailey of Byron, Illinois. Graduating from Rockford College in Rockford, Illinois, she...

Darlene Dickman

Darlene Dickman

Jun 5, 2016

VIROQUA Darlene Joan Dickman, age 74, died Sunday June 5, 2016 at the Bland Bekkedal Center for Hospice Care. Darlene Joan Dickman, 74, of Viroqua passed away peacefully surrounded by family Sunday, June 5, 2016, at the Bland Bekkedal Center for Hospice Care after a short illness. Born March 30, 1942 in rural Viroqua, she was the daughter of...

Cindy Mcgrath

Cindy Mcgrath

Jun 5, 2016

Cindy McGrath, 59, of Westby died Sunday, June 5, 2016. Cindy McGrath, 59, of Westby, passed away at her home on Sunday, June 5, 2016. She was born on February 3, 1957 to Raymond and Elaine (Poellinger) Stratman. She married Earl McGrath on June 7, 1980 in La Crosse WI. Together they had five children and later moved to...

Frances Smith

Frances Smith

Jun 3, 2016

Frances Smith, 80, of Viroqua, died on Friday, June 3, 2016. Funeral Arrangements are pending and will be announced by the Vosseteig-Larson Funeral Home of Viroqua.

Charlene Pederson

Charlene Pederson

May 31, 2016

Charlene Pederson, age 76 of Westby, died Tuesday, May 31, 2016. Charlene Pederson, age 76 of Westby, died Tuesday, May 31, 2016 at Norseland Nursing Home. She was born on July 8, 1939 in Westby to Lillian (Steenberg) Pederson. Her father, Chester Pederson died just prior to Charlenes birth. Lillian married Harold Hagen and Harold raised Charlene as his...