Obituaries
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...
Dr. Curt G. Grauer
Nov 16, 2022
Dr. Curt Grauer, 97, died Nov. 16, 2022, at Mountain Terrace Senior Living Center in Wausau, WI. He was born on April 19, 1925, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Gerhard and Marie Grauer. He attended medical school at Northwestern University in Chicago.In 1950, he married Ruth Bergstrom. They were married for 71 years. He was a family physician in Wausau...
Allen Lee Schiller
Nov 11, 2022
Allen Lee Schiller, 74, passed away peacefully in Madison, WI with his children by his side, after complications from a stroke he suffered in Tavernier, FL.
Allen was born on July 4, 1948 to the late Lawrence and Shirley (Bartz) Schiller in Marshfield, WI. Being born on Independence Day was not lost on him; he was a...
Linda L Hulstrom
Nov 10, 2022
Linda L. Hulstrom, age 70, passed away on Thursday, November 10, 2022 at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Marshfield, WI.
Linda was born on January 15, 1952 in Milwaukee the eldest of 11 children to the late Gabe and Fern (McMaster) Cadeau. She married Charles Hulstrom August 18, 1973 after meeting in Michigan. They then moved to Wausau, WI where they raised...
Helen Anklam
Nov 10, 2022
Helen Anklam, 95, was called to her heavenly home November 10, 2022, after a three-month illness.
Born May 30, 1927, to Alfred and Hulda Meyer, she was the fourth of sixteen children and the oldest living sibling. The family relocated to Schofield, Wisconsin from Minnesota when she was very young. She was afflicted with polio at age seven. This...
Victor W. Cable
Nov 10, 2022
Victor “Vic” W. Cable, 80, of Weston, passed away November 10, 2022, with his family by his side.
Vic was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on August 27, 1942, to parents Victor H. and Norma (Ferry) Cable. Victor joined the Masons at St. Johns Lodge No. 13 in Dayton, Ohio and was a 32nd Degree Mason. He married Margaret Loar...
Mark S. Bradley
Nov 8, 2022
Mark S. Bradley, 53, of Weston, WI passed away on November 8th, 2022, at home after a short and courageous battle with cancer. He was born on June 16, 1969, in Jacksonville, Florida. He was loved and cared for at 6 weeks old and eventually adopted by Mildred and JB Bradley of Kissimmee, Florida. Mark went to school and...
