Larry W. Monson
Mar 24, 2004
Larry W. Monson, 66, of Tony, WI, died peacefully, Wednesday, March 24, 2004 while at home after a brave and courageous short battle with cancer. He was born June 24, 1937 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, the son of J. Richard and Margaret (Benson) Monson. He attended Eau Claire High School until his junior year and graduated from Bethany Lutheran High...
Bessie Ellis
Mar 22, 2004
Bessie I. Ellis, 76, of Eau Claire died Monday, March 22, 2004 at Luther Hospital. She was born in the Township of Spring Brook, Dunn County on March 11, 1928 to Ira and Helen (Lee) Knott. Bessie attended Elk Mound High School, and then moved to Eau Claire for 21 years. She spent a brief time in California, and then...
Hensel J. Tomter
Mar 17, 2004
Hensel J. Tomter, 96, of Eau Claire died Wednesday, March 17, 2004 at Dove Healthcare. He was born on August 8, 1907 in Trempealeau County near Pigeon Falls, Wisconsin, the son of Ole and Hilda (Skoyen) Tomter. \r\nHensel married Lenieda Adeline Johnson on January 27, 1934 in Pigeon Falls.\r\nDuring the Depression he worked on the Trempealeau Dam for the WPA....
Geraldine Higley
Mar 16, 2004
Geraldine Elaine Dunton Higley, 86, of Eau Claire died Tuesday, March 16, 2004 at home. She was born October 26, 1917 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, the daughter of Edwin and Carrie (Perry) Dunton.\r\nGeraldine married Charles W. Higley on June 29, 1938 in Stillwater, MN.\r\nShe was a member of Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd.\r\nSurvivors include her husband, Charles; her four...
Marjorie I. Rundberg
Mar 12, 2004
Marjorie I. Rundberg, 86, of Eau Claire passed away peacefully surrounded by her family on Friday, March 12, 2004. She was born January 14, 1918 in Chaseley, North Dakota, to Frank and Pearl (Wiggins) Snyder. She was one of ten children. She moved with her family to Eau Claire where she attended school and graduated from Eau Claire Senior High...
Lawrence "Hank" Hanke
Mar 10, 2004
Lawrence A. "Hank" Hanke, 81, of Eau Claire died Wednesday, March 10, 2004 at Sacred Heart Hospital. He was born July 9, 1922 in Wheaton Township, Chippewa County, the son of Rudolph and Karen (Larson) Hanke. He graduated from Eau Claire Senior High School with the class of 1941. In high school he played on the football team and later...
Jason Belden
Mar 8, 2004
Jason D. Belden, 20, of Eau Claire passed on to be with our Lord, Monday, March 8, 2004. He was born July 18, 1983 at Luther Hospital in Eau Claire to Marjorie Cardin and Richard Belden Jr. He attended area schools at Roosevelt, DeLong and graduated from North High School in 2002. He was currently employed at Menard's.\r\nJason loved driving...
Doreen L. Kolstad
Mar 7, 2004
Doreen L. Kolstad, 65, of Eau Claire died Sunday, March 7, 2004 at Luther Hospital surrounded by her family. She was born March 31, 1938 in Bruce, Wisconsin, the daughter of Pearle and LuLu (Rusch) Williams. She moved to Eau Claire with her family in 1954.\r\nDoreen married John Kolstad on February 8, 1958 in Stillwater, Minnesota.\r\nSurvivors include her husband, S....
Russell O. Molnaa
Mar 2, 2004
Russell O. Molnaa, 81, of Eau Claire died Tuesday, March 2, 2004 at Dove Healthcare Nursing Home. He was born on February 9, 1923 in Washburn, WI, the son of Arthur and Bertha (Flottum) Molnaa. He attended school in the Washburn area.\r\nHe served in the U.S. Army as an E4 during World War II serving in Germany from 1943 to...
Arnold K. Olson
Mar 2, 2004
Arnold K. Olson, 91, of Altoona died Tuesday, March, 2, 2004 at Pigeon Falls Health Care Center in Pigeon Falls. He was born September 5, 1912 in the Town of Naples, Buffalo County, Wisconsin, the son of Ole and Anna (Thompson) Olson.\r\nArnold married Adeline A. Krenz on June 23, 1939 at the Little Brown Church in Nashua, IA. Adeline died...
Lawrence "Larry" Hovde
Feb 25, 2004
Lawrence "Larry" G. Hovde, 69, of Eau Claire died Wednesday, February 25, 2004 at his home. He was born in Eau Claire on July 26, 1934, the son of Lawrence "Ted" and Violet (Smith) Hovde. \r\nHe attended Eau Claire Senior High School and enlisted in the U.S. Marines on August 6, 1952, serving until his honorable discharge on August 15,...
Betty Strand
Feb 23, 2004
Betty Cooper Strand, 80, Eau Claire died Monday, February 23, 2004, in Eau Claire. \r\nBetty was born November 28, 1923, in Edina, Minnesota. She attended West High School in Minneapolis and the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, graduating summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in History. Serving in the Women's Army Corps during World War II, she was stationed at...
Maye Clem
Feb 20, 2004
Maye Wright Clem died on Friday, February 20, 2004 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin at Luther Hospital of complications from a stroke suffered in October of 2003. She moved to Wisconsin after having spent forty-nine years in California, thirty-one of which in North County, San Diego.\r\nBorn in Linton, Indiana on May 30, 1917, Maye was raised outside of Pittsburgh, PA and...
Emmeline Gray
Feb 19, 2004
EMMELINE L. GRAY, 83, of Altoona died Thursday, February 19, 2004, at Sacred Heart Hospital. She was born on June 13, 1920 in Whitehall, Wisconsin, the daughter of Theodore and Edna (Smith) Thompson.\r\nEmmeline married Gerald V. Gray on August 27, 1938, in Whitehall, WI.\r\nShe was a volunteer for the Salvation Army, Bethesda Thrift Store and Our Redeemer Lutheran Church Ladies...
Lydia Roberts
Feb 17, 2004
Lydia Byrne Roberts, 92, died Tuesday, February 17, 2004 at her residence at Oak Gardens, Altoona. She was born in Savannah, Georgia on April 18, 1911, the daughter of Frank M. and Sophie (Finckel) Byrne. She moved to Jackson Heights, NY with her family where she met her future husband, Elliott R. Roberts the first day of high school. They...
Bernard Faanes
Feb 12, 2004
Bernard "Bernie" W. Faanes, 71, of Eau Claire, died Thursday, February 12, 2004 at Luther Hospital. He was born in Barron, Wisconsin on April 23, 1932, the son of Oscar and Helen (Hanson) Faanes. Bernard married Beverly Heimstadt-Schmaltz at St. Johns Lutheran Church in Eau Claire in 1964. He attended two years at Barron High School and graduated from Eau...
Richard Degrood
Feb 8, 2004
Richard J. deGrood, 68, of Eau Claire died peacefully of cancer at his home on Sunday, February 8, 2004. He was born in Austin, Minnesota on July 4, 1935, the son of Lambert and Anne (Derks) deGrood. \r\nA 1948 graduate from Cotter High School in Winona, MN, Richard went on to receive his BS at St. Mary's College. He then...
Olga I. Macknight
Feb 7, 2004
Olga I. MacKnight, 93, formerly of Elk Mound died Saturday, February 7, 2004 at Oakwood Villa Nursing Home in Altoona. She was born on September 9, 1910 in Black River Falls, the youngest daughter of George and Emilie (Hortum) Gilbertson. She graduated from Racine High School.\r\nOlga married William R. MacKnight in Racine on November 8, 1930.\r\nSurvivors include her children, Elaine...
Kenneth E. Mayer
Feb 6, 2004
KENNETH E. MAYER, 83, of Eau Claire died Friday, February 6, 2004 at Sacred Heart Hospital. He was born in the town of Washington, Eau Claire County on October 4, 1920, the son of George and Ina (Barron) Mayer. \r\nHe entered the U.S. Navy during World War II in April 1944 and served in the Pacific Theater until his honorably...
Frances J. Wegrzyn
Feb 5, 2004
Frances J. Wegrzyn (nee Szceczniak) 85, of Eau Claire and formerly of Chicago died at home on Thursday, February 5, 2004 surrounded by her family. She was born June 3, 1918 in Chicago, the daughter of Albert and Rosalie (Kozak) Szczesniak. Frances married Casey Wegrzyn on August 3, 1946 in Chicago.\r\nAs well as being a homemaker most of her life,...
