Phyllis Martin
BURR OAK, Mich./SOLDIERS GROVE, Wis. — Phyllis Martin, 73, of Burr Oak and formerly of Soldiers Grove died Monday, March 3, 2008, at her home. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Our Saviors Lutheran Church, Soldiers Grove. Burial will be in Sugar Grove Cemetery, township of Clayton, Crawford County, Wis. Friends may call from 1 p.m. until the time of services Sunday at the church. Condolences to simefuneralforum.com.
Raymond Rider
PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, Wis. — Raymond Rider, 95, of Prairie du Chien died Wednesday, March 5, 2008, at Prairie Maison in Prairie du Chien. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Thornburg Hanson Funeral Home, Prairie du Chien. Burial will be in Wauzeka (Wis.) Cemetery. Friends may call from 9 a.m. until the time of services on Saturday at the funeral home.
Nellie Summers
HOUSTON, Minn. — Nellie Summers, 93, of Houston died Thursday, March 06, 2008, at Valley View Nursing Home in Houston. Hoff Funeral Homes-Houston Chapel is assisting the family with funeral arrangements.
Hazel Louise Mc Cormick
Hazel L. Mc Cormick, 87, passed away at her home in La Crosse on March 5, 2008.
She was born in La Crosse on April 23, 1920, to Charles and Angeline (Cordes) Stein. Hazel married Howard
Mc Cormick on Oct. 1, 1938, in Decorah, Iowa.
She worked at Autolite, Garment Co., Jack Winters, and Northern Engraving. Hazel enjoyed going to Goodwill, rummage sales and casinos. She enjoyed mostly spending time with her family. She felt very blessed having such a legacy of children, grandchildren and great-great-great-grandchildren.
Hazel is survived by her daughters, Sharon Moore, Mona Rae Wilkinson, Cindy (Darwin) Litzel, Amber (Tyrone) Settersten and Renee (Richard) Conniff; her sons, Howard (Marlene), Patrick, Rick (Christine) and Danny Jon; 41 grandchildren; 56 great-grandchildren; 18 great-great-grandchildren; six great-great-great-grandchildren; and many nieces, nephews and friends.
Hazel was preceded in death by her husband, Howard (12-28-87); daughter, Candace Hanson (9-19-06); infant son; six grandchildren; a great-granddaughter; sister, Carol Jean; and five brothers.
A funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 8, at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, 1022 Caledonia St., La Crosse. The Rev. Doris Simpson will officiate. Interment will be in Oak Grove Cemetery. A visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the church.
Ervin Veglahn
GENOA, Wis. — Ervin Veglahn, 87, of Genoa died Thursday, March 6, 2008, at Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center, La Crosse. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at St. Luke’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Stoddard, Wis. Burial will be in Bad Axe German Cemetery, rural Genoa. Friends may call from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday at Vosseteig-Larson Funeral Home, DeSoto, Wis., and from 10 a.m. until the time of services Monday at the church. A complete obituary will follow.
Dr. Verne C. Epley
PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, Wis. — Dr. Verne C. Epley, 93, of Prairie du Chien died Wednesday, March 5, 2008, at Maplewood Nursing Home, Sauk City, Wis.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at United Methodist Church, with burial in Evergreen Cemetery, both in Prairie du Chien. Military rites will be by Prairie du Chien Honor Guard. Friends may call from noon until the time of services Sunday at the church. Garrity Funeral Home of Prairie du Chien is assisting the family. www.garrityfuneralhome.com.
Gerhard P. Feige
WILTON, Wis. — Gerhard P. Feige, 84, of Wilton died Wednesday, March 5, 2008, in his home. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Wilton. Burial will be on Monday at Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Forest Park, Ill. Relatives and friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Smith-Nelson Funeral Home, Wilton, and from 1 p.m. until the time of services Saturday at the church.
Robert Dean Uhls
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Robert Dean Uhls, 49, of Huntsville died Sunday, Feb. 24, 2008, of colorectal cancer at Huntsville Hospital.
Robert was a native of Holmen, Wis. He served as an officer in the Army National Guard. Robert worked in management for Kroger Grocery Stores for 15 years before moving to Walgreen Drug Stores where he worked until his passing.
Robert was a member of the Huntsville Christian Church. He enjoyed music, the outdoors and serving his community. Robert volunteered his time with many organizations including, chief of the HEMSI Search Dog Unit, HEMSI High Angle Rough Terrain Team and the Huntsville-Madison County Rescue Squad. He was preceded in death by his mother, Joan Lee (Coover) Uhls.
He is survived by his loving wife of 30 years, Brenda Sue (Sparks) Uhls of Huntsville; a son, Jonathan Dean Uhls of Huntsville; a daughter, Aubrey (Uhls) Evans and husband, Michael, of Knoxville, Tenn.; his father, Dean Uhls and wife, Diane of Onalaska, Wis.; two sisters, Jodene Warden of Onalaska and Trudy Volk of Charlotte, N.C.; a brother, John Uhls of Greensboro, N.C.; a granddaughter, Carys Evans; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Arrangements were handled by Spry Funeral Home of Huntsville, where the family received friends from 4 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 27. Funeral services followed at the Funeral Home Chapel at 7 p.m., with Pastor Ryan Brewer officiating.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to your favorite charity.
Edmund J. Jarzemski
Edmund J. Jarzemski, 89, of La Crosse passed away Thursday, March 6, 2008, in his home.
He was born July 17, 1918, in Chicago to Walter and Sophie (Smolen) Jarzemski and graduated high school in Chicago. Ed had served in the United States Army during World War II. On Sept. 28, 1946, he married Charlotte Pittman in La Crosse and she preceded him in death on Jan. 20, 1998.
Ed had worked as a machinist for La Crosse Trane Co. for 33 years until his retirement in 1984. He was a member of the Knights of Columbus Council 839 and the Loyal Order of Moose Lodge 1920 in La Crosse.
Ed is survived by two daughters, Susan (Kim) Krueger of Sparta, Wis., and Sarah (Richard) Luebke of Wisconsin Dells, Wis.; two sons, David Jarzemski (Kathy Brotherwood) of La Crosse and Donald Jarzemski of La Crosse; five grandchildren, Bradley (Laura) Krueger, Kurt (Cynthia) Krueger, Brian (Jill) Jarzemski, Kimberly (Donald) Bolliger and Scott (Rumi) Leubke; and eight great-grandchildren.
In addition to his wife, Charlotte, he was preceded in death by two sisters, Dorothy Senger and Eleanor Pittman.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be at 11 a.m. Monday, March 10, at Mary, Mother of the Church Parish at St. Thomas More Catholic Church, with the Rev. David Kunz officiating. Entombment will follow in St. Francis of
Assisi Mausoleum, Catholic Cemetery. Friends and family may call at the church on Monday from 9:30 a.m. until the time of services. Schumacher-Kish Funeral Home of La Crosse is assisting the family.
David B. Hoff, Brigadier General (Ret.)
MADISON — David Bechtold Hoff, Brigadier General (Ret.), died Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2008, in Madison surrounded by his family.
He was born in Ettrick, Wis., on Aug. 31, 1932, the son of Oscar Frederick and Elsie Marie (Bechtold) Hoff. He started working at age six selling newspapers, and later worked in tobacco barns and a canning factory. He was in the West Salem (Wis.) High School class of 1949, where he played on the baseball, basketball and football teams, was a cheerleader, played the tuba and sang in the choir. In 1953 he graduated with high honors from the UW-Madison School of Business with a degree in accounting. While in college he joined Air Force ROTC and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Kappa Psi, Phi Eta Sigma, Beta Gamma Sigma, and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies. He belonged to the Entertainers’ Guild and was a member of the Haresfoot Club for four years. He was one of about 30 undergraduates nationwide awarded a Ford Foundation Fellowship for graduate study in 1953 based on his outstanding scholarship and proven leadership ability. In 1954 Hoff received a commission as second lieutenant in the Air Force and completed his pilot training in 1956. He served a tour of active duty from 1955-1958 in Texas, Florida and Fuerstenfeldbruck AFB in Germany, where he trained German Air Force pilots. Hoff played basketball on the 7330th Pilot Training Group team, the Jet Jockeys, traveling around Europe and winning the Mutual Defense Alliance Pact championship in 1957. In 1958 he returned to Madison and served as a pilot in the Wisconsin Air National Guard (WI ANG) until 1989, when he retired as air commander of Truax Air Base and wing commander of the 128th Tactical Fighter Wing with more than 6,000 hours flying time, including 1,000 hours in the A-10 Thunderbolt II. As commander, Hoff lead the 128th TFW back into the jet age following its near deactivation and the removal of its jets in the 1970s, giving the base its working motto, “Dedicated to Excellence.” He also graduated from the USAF Air War College in 1975 and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in 1978. Gen. Hoff worked regularly with Congress in the WI ANG congressional liaison program, which he initiated. Sen. William Proxmire awarded Gen. Hoff the Reverse Golden Fleece Award in 1984 for using his own money to purchase and expedite the placement of safety clips on all Air Force, ANG and Air Force Reserve A-10 pilot air hoses to prevent inadvertent disconnect at high G forces in flight. The G-suit modification, which he designed and then implemented in a test program at Truax before receiving USAF approval to equip every A-10 unit in the military, took three months and cost $1,100; Air Force experts had told General Hoff it would cost tens of thousands of dollars and take two years to accomplish the same result. The 1985 Reader’s Digest magazine awarded Hoff the Hero for Today award, noting that “What this country and we taxpayers need is more doers like Brig. Gen. David Hoff in charge of things. . .”
Following his retirement, Hoff served as deputy executive director of the National Guard Association of the United States from 1992-93 in Washington, D.C., and in 1994 was inducted into the WI ANG Hall of Fame. He said the best thing he did in life was being in the WI ANG. Gen. Hoff was a charter member of American Legion West Side Memorial Post 151. In 2006 he gave the last of his many Memorial Day speeches at Sunset Memory Gardens in Madison. He was a chartered life underwriter and formed Hoff and Lem Inc. in 1963. In addition, he belonged to many professional organizations and associations.
In 1989 at the age of 56 he graduated cum laude and Order of the Coif from the
UW-Madison Law School, having served as associate editor of the Law Review. He practiced law through 2005 with the same enthusiasm and dedication that he devoted to all of his pursuits.
His volunteer involvement included chairman of the Madison Chamber of Commerce Industrial Development Committee, mayoral appointment to the City of Madison Economic Development Committee, chairing the Citizens’ Advisory Committee on the Dane County Regional Airport Expansion, membership in the City of Madison Industrial Land Bank Board and the City of Madison Industrial Develop-ment Commission, and serving as technical advisor to the Dane County Noise Abatement Committee. He also served as treasurer to the South Side Coalition of the Elderly. He attended Divine Savior United Methodist Church and was a past member of Christ Presbyterian Church.
Gen. Hoff had a beautiful baritone voice and sang his entire life. He played the ukelele, banjo and guitar. He loved music from opera to Johnny Cash and the Goose Island Ramblers. Hoff was a member of Nakoma Golf Club for 50 years. He played city league basketball until 1985 and coached girls’ high school softball. His fast-pitch softball pitching career spanned seven decades, winning the city of Madison championship in 1972 and the National Air Guard tournaments in 1976-78. Proud of his Norwegian heritage, he enjoyed the annual Hoff reunions in Stoughton, Wis., and Pigeon Falls, Wis. He had a wonderful sense of humor, and valued it in others. Hoff encouraged and supported his children and grandchildren in academics, athletics, music, theater and other interests.
Gen. Hoff is survived by his wife, Patricia; brothers, Oscar and Ralph Hoff; sister, Carla Harrington; brother-in-law, Reynolds Tomter; sister-in-law, Dolores Hoff; brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Dr. William and Barbara Hass; brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Dr. Louis and Ruth Shifrin; daughters, Dr. Frederica Schuster (Andrew) and Kristine Schriesheim (Robert); son, Seth; and grandchildren, Karen, Eric, David and Rebecca Schriesheim, and Heidi, Joseph and Adrienne Schuster; and many cousins, nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his aunt and uncle, Becky and Whit Huff; sisters, Dorothea Tomter and Fredrika Fremstad; brother, Richard Hoff; sister-in-law, Ruth Hoff; and brothers-in-law, Norman Harrington and Thurman Fremstad.
A memorial service with military honors will be held in Madison on Friday, May 23, 2008. Contact Cress Funeral Home at (608) 238-3434 or www.cressfuneralservice.com for details. Cards may be sent to: P.O. Box 44324, Madison, WI 53744. The family requests that in lieu of flowers, memorial donations be made to: The Association for Families, 1919 E. Grange Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53707 (provides support for ANG members and their families); University of Wisconsin Foundation, David B. Hoff Scholarship, PO Box 78807, Milwaukee, WI 53278; or Massachusetts General Hospital ALS Clinical Research, c/o Jocelyn Hoey, MGH Development, 165 Cambridge St., Boston, MA 02114.
John W. Schneider
DE SOTO, Wis. — John W. Schneider, 60, of De Soto and formerly of McHenry County, Ill., passed away suddenly on Sunday, March 2, 2008, at his home. John was one of the good guys.
He was born at Sherman Hospital in Elgin, Ill., on July 13, 1947. He was preceded in death by his parents, Golda (Meyer) and Frederick Schneider Sr. He lived most of his life in McHenry County and worked for W. Smith Cartage for 27 years. John was a member of the Teamsters Union Local 301.
John is survived by his wife, Donna (Schlofner) Schneider of De Soto; sons, Martin Schneider of Crystal Lake, Ill., Michael Schneider of Arizona, Matthew (Mary) Schneider of Chicago and Paul Swolley of McHenry. He is further survived by two grandchildren, Edward Owen Schneider and Willa June Schneider of Chicago; sisters Kathy (Harry) Rydquist of Fox Lake, Wis., and Pat Kofsky of Atlanta; and brother, Frederick (Kathy) Schneider Jr. of Arizona.
Vosseteig Funeral Homes in Viroqua, Wis., is handling the arrangements and cremation. Services will be held on Sunday, July 13, at John’s home in De Soto.
Bernice Reagan
SOLDIERS GROVE, Wis. — Bernice Reagan, 87, of Soldiers Grove died Thursday, March 6, 2008, at Vernon Memorial Hospital, Viroqua, Wis. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Monday at Community of Christ Church, Soldiers Grove. Burial will be in North Clayton Cemetery, rural Soldiers Grove. Friends may call from 11 a.m. until the time of services Monday at the church. Condolences to simefuneralforum.com.
CORRECTION
Caroline G. (Hammes) Weber
The obituary published Thursday for Caroline G. (Hammes) Weber, 84, La Crosse omitted that she is also survived by a special friend, Verna Clements, and that the Revs. Lawrence B. Berger and Ed Thome will concelebrate the funeral mass.
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