Obituaries
Clarence Fishel PDF Print
Clarence Melvin Fishel, 92, of Toronto, Kansas died Tuesday, March 4, 2008 at his home.

He was born October 29, 1915, in Mound Prairie, Minn. the son of Charles Ralph and Crycynthia Grace Woolley Fishel.

He grew up in Minnesota and South Dakota, and also lived in Wyoming, Montana, Washington, and Arizona in that order.

He worked as a dairyman, farmer, rancher, owned an A&W Root Beer Stand in Cut Bank, Mont., truck driver, and school bus driver.

He was a 50 year member of the Masonic Lodge in Hulett, Wyo.

On November 12, 1936, he married Ruth Edith Diedrich in Brownsville, Minn.

He is survived by his wife, Edith, four sons, Donald, Sekiu, Wash., Harry, Washougal, Wash., Arthur, Hines, Ore., and Gary, Toronto, Kan., a daughter, RoseMary Lewis, Placerville, Calif., 12 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren and one great-great-granddaughter.

Inurnment services will be at a later date in Hokah, Minn. There will also be a memorial service at a later date in Belle Fourche, SD.

 
Ella Meiners PDF Print

Ella M. Meiners, 86, of Caledonia, Minn., formerly of Eitzen, Minn., died Friday, Mar. 14, 2008, at Caledonia Care and Rehab.

She was born July 11, 1921, in Winnebago Township to Gustav and Mathilde (Kruse) Schroeder.  In June of 1943, she married Marvin Meiners in The Little Brown Church in Nashua, Iowa and they were later divorced. Ella was a cook for the Caledonia School District for 22 years, retiring as head cook in 1986. During that time, she was also a cook at Bunge’s Dug Out in Eitzen for 15 years.

Survivors include four children: Devoine (Barbara) Meiners, Eitzen; Harley (Joanne) Meiners, Caledonia; Allen (Connie) Meiners, Eitzen; and Glenda (James) Miller, Caledonia; 14 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren;  one sister, Amanda Olson, Spring Grove; and one sister-in-law, Helen Schroeder, Caledonia. 

She was preceded in death by a daughter in infancy, Jeanette; two brothers: Arnold and Carl Schroeder; and two sisters: Clara Pohlman and Lillie Traff.

Funeral services will be Wednesday, Mar. 19, 2008, at 11 a.m. at St. Luke’s United Church of Christ, Eitzen.  Rev. Kent A. Meyer Ph.D. and Rev. Debra A. Meyer will officiate.  Burial will be in St. Luke’s U.C.C. North Cemetery. Friends may call at the church on Tuesday from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m. and also on Wednesday from 10 a.m. until the time of service.  Haugen-Roble-Jandt Funeral Home, Caledonia, is in charge of arrangements.

 
Edna Strub PDF Print
strub,edna.jpgEdna Strub, 88, of Caledonia, and formerly of La Crescent and Lansing, Iowa, died Wednesday Mar. 12, 2008 at Caledonia Care and Rehab in Caledonia.

Edna was born in Decorah, Iowa on Apr. 04, 1919 to Hans and Mabel (Rustad) Halvorson. She married Vincent Strub on May 3, 1938 at St. Benedicts Catholic Church in Decorah. She and her husband farmed in the Caledonia and Lansing, Iowa area.

She is survived by seven children: Kathryn (Robert) Van Brocklin, Lansing; Robert (Joan) Strub, Lansing; Joan Downer, Dundee, Iowa; Duane Strub, Caledonia; Elaine (John) Burg, Caledonia; Ron Strub La Crescent; and Karen (Robert) Snodgrass, Caledonia; 26 grandchildren; 45 great-grandchildren; four siblings: Ruth Strub, Dubuque Iowa; Orlando Halverson, Decorah; Margaret Stortz, Decorah; and Donald (June) Halvorson, Decorah.

Edna was preceded in death by her husband Vincent on July 7, 1980; one son Michael; three grandsons: Kenneth Van Brocklin, Daniel Schulte and Ronald Van Brocklin; and a great-grandson Aaron Rettinger.

Funeral services were held 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Lansing with Fr. Daniel Knipper officiating.  Burial was in Gethsemane Cemetery in Lansing. Friends called on Saturday at the church from 9:30 until time of services. Thornburg Hanson Funeral Home in Lansing is assisting the family.
 
Harold Kumbier PDF Print

harold-kumbier.jpgHarold Richard “Hal” Kumbier, 84, died Thursday, Mar. 13, 2008 following complications from heart surgery.

Hal was born on Feb. 2, 1924 in Sheboygan Falls, Wis. to Anton G. and Emma (Zuleger) Kumbier. He was a 1942 graduate of Glenbeulah High School and enlisted in the US Army. He served in the Tenth Mountain Division in the Po Valley Campaign in Italy during WWII. He attended Lakeland College and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, earning a master’s degree in guidance and counseling. He received his lifetime public school teaching license in 1956. Hal taught high school in Baraboo and Port Edwards before becoming a counselor at Sheboygan Falls, Lakeshore Technical Institute and Western Wisconsin Technical Institute in La Crosse. He retired in 1985 from Western Wisconsin Technical Institute as the Supervisor of Admissions.

Hal was married to Helen Marie Hirsch from 1950–1971, and together they had five children. He married Mary (Johnson) Winter on Dec. 12, 1987 and they had three more daughters. Previous to building a home in Onalaska they had lived in Rushford, Minn., Janesville and Beloit, Wis. Hal was a member of Wesley United Methodist Church, the Frontier-Badger 45 F&AM, and life member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Disabled American Veterans. He was a past member of the Janesville Lions Club, Nekoosa Lions Club, Wisconsin Rapids Masonic Lodge, and the Barbershoppers singers. He was also past Treasury of the Wisconsin Personnel and Guidance Association (WPGA). Hal was instrumental in the building of the Educational Wing at the Methodist Church in Port Edwards and also helped create the Port Edwards Cemetery in 1958, where his son Tim was buried.

Hal is survived by his wife Mary, his children: Ted (Mary Gjermo), Cambridge, Wis.; Kay De Horn, New Hampshire; Tom (Andrea), Onalaska; Terry (Wendy), Pleasant Prairie, Wis.; Tammi (Rich) Benson, Bangor, Wis.; Laura (Bob) Gaustad, Houston, Minn.; and Sara (Craig) Conley, Houston; 17 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and his older brother Lawrence L. (Dorothy) Kumbier.

He was preceded in death by his son Timothy.

 Funeral services will be held on Sunday, Mar. 16, 2008 at 2 p.m. at Wesley United Methodist Church. Rev. Donald Iliff will officiate. Burial will be in the Mormon Coulee Memorial Park. Friends may call at the church on Sunday from 12:30 p.m. until the time of services. A Masonic Service will be held at 1:30 p.m.

The Schumacher-Kish Funeral Home of La Crosse is in charge of arrangements.

 
Bess Niedfeldt PDF Print

Bess Eglinton Niedfeldt, age 90 of La Crescent died Feb. 29, 2008 in Green Valley, Ariz. from complications of Valley Fever.

Bess was born on May 19, 1917 at the family farm house in Mound Prairie, Houston County, Minn. to Albert “Bud” and Mabel Eglinton. She attended the one room Mound Prairie school house for eight years and then the Houston High School for four years, graduating with the Class of 1936. In 1937, Bess married Grant W. Lee and they had three children. They were divorced in 1958. In 1961, Bess married Theodore Niedfeldt of La Crosse. Bess worked at the La Crosse Rubber Mills for thity years until she retired at age 60. They moved to Gold Bar, Wash. In late 1998, Ted’s health failed and they returned to La Crescent with Ted dying only five weeks later. She was a member of the Fern Bluff Grange #267, Sultan, Wash., the La Crescent United Methodist Church and La Crescent Eastern Star.

She is survived by her three children: Allen, La Crescent; Lucille “Sue” (Lauren) La Fleur, Houston; and Sharon (Clayton) Hauser, St. Petersburg, Fla.; four grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by an older brother, Billy Joe Eglinton; older sister, Esther Lynch and her husband, Ted.

A memorial service will be held at a later date and private family committal services will be held in the Mount Hope Cemetery, Hokah. The Dickinson Family Funeral Home, La Crosse, Wis. is assisting the family.

 
Robert Stroetz PDF Print

stroetz,-robert-obit-photo.jpgRobert W. Stroetz, age 90, died Saturday, Mar. 1 at Saint Marys Hospital.

Robert William Stroetz was born in Neenah, Wis. Aug. 7, 1917 to William and Clara Stroetz. He spent his early years in Neenah, Weyauwega and Appleton, Wis. As a child, he assisted his father by delivering groceries and working in the family’s grocery store.

Music was his life-long passion. After graduation from high school in 1934, he traveled throughout the midwest with several big bands including the Tom Temple Society Band and the Freddy Slack Band. He studied trombone with the masters, Jerry Chimera in Chicago, Robert Marstellar in Los Angeles, and studied jazz with Bobby Byrne.

He graduated from Lawrence University Conservatory of Music and received his Bachelor of Music degree in 1942. Immediately after graduation, he enlisted and became a pilot in the Army Air Corps and played lead trombone in the Air Force jazz band.

After the war, he moved to Los Angeles, Calif., and toured with Les Brown and his Band of Renown. He also played with Skinny Ennis, was a member of the NBC Orchestra in Hollywood, and played for Columbia Motion Picture Studios. He then moved to New York, taught music and played with Ray Noble on the Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show.

On Nov. 29, 1946, he married Nina Hancock in Neenah, Wis. She died on December 25, 2002.

In 1946, he also began a lifelong career in music education. He received the Master of Music degree from the University of Southern California and, in later years, the Education Specialist degree from the University of Minnesota. He began teaching at the University of New York- Freedonia in 1946, followed by the University of Montana-Missoula, high schools in Galesville, Wis. and Caledonia, Minn. He moved to Rochester, Minn. in 1965, when he was hired as the first band teacher for Mayo High School and taught for the Rochester School District until he retired in 1985. He was principal trombone with the Rochester Symphony from 1956 until 1998 and never missed a concert or a rehearsal. During his career, he played with Victor Borge, Jack Benny, Doc Severinson and The Moody Blues. He continued to give private lessons until December 2007.

He was a charter member of  The Turkey River All-Stars, a local Dixieland jazz band, and played a multitude of venues, both locally and nationally. He has performed with them on the Delta Queen paddleboat in Branson, Mo., and at jazz festivals in New Orleans, as well as for four U.S. presidents.

He is survived by his sons: Philip (Vicky), Stacy, Minn.; and Randy (Lucinda) of Rochester; a stepson, C. Vincent (Kay) Baker, Tucson, Ariz.; two granddaughters; a sister, Caroline Giglia, Fort Thomas, Ky. He was preceded in death by his wife, one brother, and four sisters.

The funeral was at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Mar. 4 at Calvary Evangelical Free Church in Rochester. Interment was at Grandview Memorial Cemetery mausoleum. A visitation was held Monday, Mar. 3, from 6 - 8 p.m. at Ranfranz and Vine Funeral Homes and one hour prior to the service on Tuesday at the church.

 
Edmund Virock PDF Print
Edmund Deloin Virock, 70, Houston died Friday Feb. 29, 2008 at St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester.

Ed was born Jan. 5, 1938 in La Crosse to Deloin and Adeline (Norton) Virock. He served his country in the US Navy from 1956-1960. Ed married Janice Todd and they later divorced. He worked for John Deere Co. of Waterloo, Iowa for many years, retiring from John Deere in 1992.

He is survived by two children, Tesha Hardy, Houston and Darin Virock, Fredericksburg, Iowa; four grandchildren; four brothers: Terry (Joan) Virock, Houston; Jacob (Tere) Virock, Winona; Scott (Cindy) Virock, Winona; and Shawn (Teri) Virock, Brownsville; two sisters: Marcy (Tom) Zemanko, Shakopee; and Nancy Mathews, Houston.

Memorial services will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at Cross of Christ Lutheran Church in Houston with Rev. Louise Stromberg officiating. Burial of the cremains will follow in Silver Creek Cemetery, rural Houston. Friends may call from 5-8 p.m. Monday at Hoff Funeral Home, Houston. They may also call before services at the church.
 
Paul Gade PDF Print
Paul W. Gade, Sr., 79, of Eitzen, Minn., died Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008, while vacationing in South Padre Island, Texas.

He was born July 20, 1928 in New Albin, Iowa to William H. and Martha Anna (Meyer) Gade. Paul was baptized and confirmed at St. John’s Church, Wheatland, rural New Albin, Iowa. He completed eight grades in country school and graduated from high school in New Albin. On August 20, 1953, Paul married Arlene Sarah Beneke. Together they farmed their home farms in Jefferson Township, Houston County, Minn. his entire life. Paul was a member of St. John’s U.C.C., Wheatland, where he served several terms on the church council. He also served as Houston County Fire Warden for 40 years and he was a member of the Eitzen Lions Club for many years. 

Survivors include his wife, Arlene of Eitzen; five children: Paul (Julie) Gade, Jr., Fountain, Minn.; Marilyn Weis and Diane Leppert, both of Rochester, Minn.; Bill (Tammie) Gade, Dallas, Texas; and Dan (Jeanne) Gade, Caledonia; nine grandchildren; four step-grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; one sister, Esther (Merlin) Reinke, Eitzen, Minn.; and two sisters-in-law, Iona Novak and Kathryn (Wayne) Bailey both of Caledonia.

Paul was preceded in death by an older sister, Ruth (Kenneth) Pearce.

Funeral services will be Tuesday, Mar. 4, 2008 at 2 p.m. at St. John’s United Church of Christ, Wheatland, rural New Albin, Iowa. Rev. Paul Burgess will officiate. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at Haugen-Roble-Jandt Funeral Home, Caledonia, on Monday from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m. and at the church on Tuesday from 1 p.m. until the time of service.
 
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