Obituaries
Dolores Heil
Dec 12, 2022
Dolores Heil passed away on Monday, December 12, 2022 at Aspirus Wausau Hospital. Dolores was born on July 8, 1931 in Hatley, WI, the daughter of the late Joseph and Regina Easker.
Dolores married Matthew on September 2, 1950 and together they traveled all 48 continuous states including Canada, Hawaii and Alaska. They also traveled to Switzerland and Nova Scotia....
Duane M. Borchardt
Dec 10, 2022
Duane (Red) Borchardt, 60, passed away December 10th, 2022, in Stevens Point, WI.
Duane was born in Bismarck, North Dakota on December 19th, 1961 to Clara and Ellsworth Borchardt. The family moved several times and finally settled in Edgar, WI where he graduated high school in 1980. Duane loved sports and participated in football, wrestling, baseball and track.
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Andrew Dallman
Dec 9, 2022
Andrew Gerald Dallman went to Heaven on December 9, 2022 at his home in Weston at the age of 48 after fighting a hard battle with an unexpected heart condition before meeting his Heavenly Father. Andy was born on May 4, 1974 in Schofield, Wisconsin to Gerald and Shirley Dallman. He graduated from DC Everest High School in 1992. Andy...
Florence Lucille (Check) Wesenick
Dec 9, 2022
Florence Lucille (Check) Wesenick, age 91, with loving family members at her side, peacefully released into God’s arms on Friday, December 9th, 2022, at Pride TLC in Weston.
Florence was born on September 14th, 1931, the second of four daughters, to Josephine (Sowinski) and Alex Check. Following graduation from Wausau High School, she worked at the Wausau Phone...
Adam O Spiegel
Dec 8, 2022
Adam Owen Spiegel, age 36, died unexpectedly on Thursday, December 8, 2022.
Adam was born on July 22, 1986 in Wausau to Kent and Christine (Philipp) Spiegel. He graduated from Wausau West in 2004 and went on to attend college in Duluth and Milwaukee. He worked beside his dad at Rib Mountain Greenhouse.
One of Adam’s many passions was music; he loved to sing and...
Dennis Allen Barnes
Dec 6, 2022
On the evening of Tuesday December 6, 2022, Dennis A Barnes (73) passed away peacefully at his home in Three Lakes, Wisconsin. Dennis was born to the late Willian and Lillie (Keener) Barnes in Dellwood, Wisconsin. After graduating high school at the age of 18, Dennis enlisted in the United States Air Force proudly serving his country from February of...
Albert "Al" J. Hillman
Dec 4, 2022
Albert “Al” J. Hillman, 85, passed away peacefully December 4, 2022, at Copperleaf Memory Care, Schofield.
Albert was born December 12, 1936, in Holdin, West Virginia to the late Charles and Carrie (Stallard) Hillman. He married Judith “Judy” (Vick) on January 14, 1961, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Al attended the Milwaukee School of Engineering. After school Al worked as an electrical...
Shirley A. Check
Dec 4, 2022
Shirley A. Check, 84, passed away peacefully December 4, 2022, at Wellington Place at Rib Mountain.
Shirley was born January 28, 1938, in Wausau, WI to the late William and Evelyn (Smith) Aldridge. She married Clarence (Fat) J. Check on October 24, 1959, at Saint Therese Catholic Church. During Shirley’s 48+ years of marriage, she was employed as a...
Betty E. Sowinski
Dec 3, 2022
Betty Duggan Sowinski slipped peacefully from this world in the early morning hours of December 3rd, 2022.
Betty was born to Margaretha Pauline Wilhelmina Reinicke and Lyle Edward Duggan on October 20, 1920, in Detroit Michigan. She saw and experienced a great deal throughout her 102-year lifetime, and through it all she was surrounded by the love of her...
Dennis P. Dalsky
Dec 3, 2022
Dennis Dalsky, 73, of Wausau, Wisconsin passed away peacefully Saturday, December 3, surrounded by his family at Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Dennis was born in Wausau, Wisconsin on June 21, 1949, to Ann and Phillip Dalsky. He was baptized, confirmed and married at St. Mary’s Catholic Church. Dennis was a graduate of Newman Catholic High School, Wausau and...
Ruth A. Grauer
Dec 2, 2022
Ruth Grauer, 97, died December 02, 2022 at Mountain Terrace Senior Living Center in Wausau, WI.
She was born October 5, 1925, in Chicago, Illinois, to Harold and Lydia Bergstrom. Ruth attended college at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana where she earned a degree in dietetics. Ruth met the love of her life, Curt while working as a dietician...
Herbert G. Ableman
Dec 1, 2022
Herbert G. Ableman, 85, Weston, WI, died December 1, 2022, at Primrose Memory Care, Weston, with his daughters by his side. Herb was born on March 23, 1937, in Monroe, WI, to Ted and Ruth (Johnson) Ableman. He grew up in Monroe, playing basketball and graduating from Monroe High School and the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where he earned a degree...
Karen G Yankouski
Nov 27, 2022
Karen G. Yankouski (Hoesly) died Nov. 27, 2022 at Rennes Health & Rehab Weston.
Karen was born January 6, 1942 to Roy and Virginia Hoesly in Wausau, Wi. She graduated from Wausau Senior High in 1960.
Karen worked next to her Mother at Rilling's Lamps & Shades, a business on 3rd St. in Wausau, for many years. Her favorite hobby...
Carol L. Knutson
Nov 26, 2022
Carol L. Knutson, 78, of Weston, passed away November 26, 2022, at Care Partners, with her family by her side.
Carol is survived by her husband of 58 years, Charles Knutson; daughters Julie (Ryan) Fernstaedt and Ann (Eagan) Heath; grandchildren Alec, Olivia, and Ashtyn Fernstaedt; sister Denise (Darryl) Wessoleck; and extended family and friends. She is preceded in death by...
Richard M. Dubiel
Nov 23, 2022
Richard M. Dubiel, a retired professor of communication at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point who was a lifelong outdoorsman with a love for philosophy and ethics, died on November 23, 2022. He was 79 years old.
Best known among his UWSP colleagues for his care and concern for students and his wickedly humorous observations on academic life, Dubiel joined the...
Joyce E. Taft
Nov 19, 2022
Joyce E. Taft, 100, of Wausau, beloved wife of the late Robert M. Taft, departed this life on Saturday, November 19, 2022 at Applegate Terrace.
Joyce was born on March 10, 1922 in Wausau daughter of the late Walter and Grace (Welsh) Fitzgerald. She married Robert on January 18, 1947.
Joyce was a CPCU (Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter) and...
Nancy A. Habermann
Nov 19, 2022
Nancy A. Habermann, age 69, of Weston passed away at home with her family by her side after a four month battle with pancreatic cancer.
Nancy was born on June 12, 1953 in Milwaukee to the late William and Marilyn (Malone) Odrman Sr. She married Richard Habermann on September 13, 1975 in Elm Grove. In 1995, they would move their...
Patricia "Pat" Jane Jensen (Grulkowski)
Nov 18, 2022
Patricia "Pat" J. Jensen (Grulkowski) 77, of Wausau, WI passed away on November 18, 2022 after a long battle with Lymphedema. Patricia was born on April 6, 1945 to William and Eloise Jensen in California. She was born and raised there until she was a Senior in High School. Her family then picked up and moved to Big...
Aaron Abrams
Nov 18, 2022
Aaron M. Abrams, young age 53, passed on Friday, November 18, 2022, in Weston, Wisconsin due to a sudden cardiac emergency.
Aaron was born on September 28, 1969, to Donald and Kathy (Bondy) Abrams in Monroe, Michigan. Aaron was one of four siblings. He worked as a logistic technician for C-Tech. Aaron was an amazing father to his daughters and...
Ashley Ann Mootz-Nickolai
Nov 17, 2022
Ashley Ann Mootz-Nickolai, age 37, of Wausau, passed away on Thursday, November 17, 2022, at Aspirus Wausau Hospital surrounded by her family.
She was born on April 7, 1985, in Wausau. Ashley graduated from DC Everest with honors. She was an excellent student and went on to earn her bachelor’s degree in political science in 2007, from UW Whitewater, graduating magna...
