Obituaries
Robert W. "Bob" Hammerstrom
Nov 23, 2019
Robert W. Hammerstrom Robert (Bob) Hammerstrom, 87, of Flower Mound, TX and formerly of Phillips, WI passed away on November 23, 2019 after a sudden illness. He was born on November 12, 1932 in Sioux City, IA to parents Abel Hamerstrom and Laura (Henningfield) Hamerstrom. He spent his early life and schooling in Prentice and Phillips, WI. He graduated in...
Betty Jean Graham
Nov 20, 2019
Betty Jean Graham, age 98 of Minocqua, WI died on Wednesday, November 20th at Rennes Health and Rehab Center in Rhinelander, WI. Betty was born on June 14, 1921 in Chicago, IL. She married John Graham on October 5, 1940. Betty was an active volunteer at Howard Young Medical Center for many years and she enjoyed golf, bowling, knitting and...
Joan Bugarin
Nov 19, 2019
Joan Helen Jacobson Bugarin, age 84, of Tomahawk, passed away on November 19, 2019 at St. Clare’s Hospital in Weston.
Joan was born in Appleton, WI on September 5, 1935 to Marie Balck and John Jacobson.
She grew up in Rothschild, WI and attended the old Wausau East High School.
She graduated from Evangelical Deaconess Hospital School of Nursing with a Registered...
Kenneth Scott Ruskowsky
Nov 18, 2019
Kenneth Scott Ruskowsky Nov. 10, 1971 - Nov.18, 2019 Kenneth Scott Ruskowsky, Tucson, Az. passed away Monday, November 18, 2019. He was born November 10, 1971 in Roseland Community Hospital, Chicago, Illinois the son of Ken Ruskowsky Sr. and Bonnie Burnham. Ken spent most of his childhood in Phillips, Wi. and was a 1990 graduate of Phillips High School. He...
Lena Kriesant
Nov 16, 2019
Lena “Lee” Kriesant, 84, a long time Tomahawk resident, passed away peacefully at Friendly Village Nursing Home in Rhinelander on Saturday, November 16, 2019.
Lee was born October 29, 1935 in Chicago, Illinois to the late Joseph and Irene (Zoual) Oliverii. She was married to Walter “Wally” Kriesant who passed away in 2016. Lee lived much of her life in the...
Rosalie L Garfield
Nov 15, 2019
Rosalie L. Garfield (nee Obenauf) passed away peacefully at Tomahawk Health Services (Golden Age), Tomahawk, Wisconsin, on November 15, 2019.
Our mother was born on the family farm in Lake Zurich, Illinois to Otto and Esther Obenauf, the sixth child of ten children, on August 21, 1929. Mom met Dad, Russell D. Garfield, in the late 1940’s, fell in love, and...
Louis William Adams
Nov 15, 2019
Louis William Adams, age 85, of Arbor Vitae, died suddenly at his home on Friday, November 15, 2019. Lou was born April 12, 1934 in Parsons, PA to Ruth N (Walker) Adams and Louis A. Adams. He was raised along with his sister, Susan Ruth, in Havertown, PA and graduated from Haverford High School 1952. Lou received a B.S. Degree...
Thomas O Mathwich, Sr.
Nov 14, 2019
Thomas O. Mathwich, Sr., 73, of Krystal Kove Road, Tomahawk passed away Thursday, November 14, 2019 under the care of Ministry Hospice at Riverview Health Services in Tomahawk.
Tom was born on June 26, 1946 in Wausau to Mayward and Ruby (Klemp) Mathwich. He graduated from Wausau High School in 1965 and served his country in the US Navy during the...
Charles Eli Schwartz
Nov 14, 2019
CHARLES SCHWARTZ Charles Eli Schwartz, 89, Phillips, died in the Marshfield Medical Center in Marshfield on Thursday, November 14, 2019. He was born in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on August 9, 1930, the son of Ezra and Viola (Welter) Schwartz. He served his country in the United States Navy during the Korean War. He was employed by HUSCO Manufacturing Company in Waukesha...
Jack Donald Ward
Nov 14, 2019
Today we say good-bye to Jack Ward, beloved husband to Linda for 66 years, Dad to Kevin, Shawn (Steph) and Kera. Papa to Asia, Rachel, Vince and Stevie. Brother to Ron (Steph), Fonda, Jo, Bonnie, Gary and Jan, and son to Mercedes and Dick (now deceased). Uncles to so many wonderful nieces and nephews, friend to more than can be...
Emily Carolyn (Koci) Palka
Nov 14, 2019
EMILY (Koci) PALKA Emily Caroline (Koci) Palka 94, Phillips, passed away peacefully in the Park Manor Nursing Home in Park Falls on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2019. For the past several years Emily was fighting Alzheimer’s Disease while being well cared for by the staff at Park Manor. The youngest of 10 children, she was born in the town of Emery...
Lois E Wilcox
Nov 14, 2019
Lois Elaine Wilcox, nèeTrommer, was born to Josephine Schoenberg and Ervin Trommer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on February 7, 1930. The eldest of three children, she grew up during the Depressionand World War IIeras, and graduated high school in 1948. During that same year, she met and fell in love with the love of her life, Maurice C. (Rod) Wilcox. They...
John Martin Lasky
Nov 14, 2019
JOHN LASKY John Martin Lasky, Phillips, Town of Worcester, died in the Marshfield Medical Center in Marshfield on Thursday, November 14, 2019. He was born on May 6, 1951, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the son of John and Clara (Gosselin) Lasky Sr. He served his country during the Viet Nam War in the United States Army. He was married to Judy...
Gladys M. Ruka
Nov 13, 2019
GLADYS RUKA Gladys M. Ruka, 101, Prentice, died in the Aspirus Pleasant View Nursing Home in Phillps on Wednesday, November 13, 2019. She was born on July 17, 1918, in Ogema, Wisconsin, the daughter of Herman and Marie (Hollander) Clarin. She attended the Sunnyside School in Ogema, and then was employed in Chicago, Illinois from 1937 to 1941. She was...
Diane L.C. Shawl
Nov 13, 2019
Diane Louise Churchill Shawl, 68 of St. Germain, passed away November 13, 2019. Diane L. C. Shawl was born in Milwaukee WI, Diane Louise Reuter to Joan Elizabeth Reuter and Maurice Jerome Reuter, Jr., on May 28, 1951. She is the oldest of five children. Her siblings are Richard (Debra) Shawl of Rhinelander WI, Theresa (James) Taylor of Buena Vista,...
Audrey Larson
Nov 10, 2019
Audrey Ann Larson, age 83, of Tomahawk, formerly of Schofield, passed away on November 10, 2019 at Riverview Health Services.
Audrey was born to John & Regina (Burant) Zillman on March 16, 1936 in Wausau. Audrey’s family moved to Cudahy when she was young. Shortly after her graduation from Cudahy High School, Audrey’s family moved back to the Wausau area. She...
Kenneth Arthur Zorn
Nov 9, 2019
Kenneth A. Zorn November 13, 1926 – November 9, 2019 Kenneth Arthur Zorn, 92, Phillips, found his peace on Saturday, November 9, 2019, at the Northern Lights Healthcare Center, Washburn, WI. He was born on November 13, 1926, in Elkhart Lake, WI, the son of Arthur J. and Martha E. (Hoehl) Zorn. He spent his early life in southeastern Wisconsin...
Kenneth Gene Denzine
Nov 8, 2019
Kenneth Gene Denzine, age 70, of Phillips, WI passed away peacefully surrounded by his loving family, at Aspirus Wausau Hospital after a hard fought battle with complications from diabetes. Ken was born on April 4, 1949 in Phillips, WI, the son of Galen and Pearl (Giles) Denzine. He was a 1968 graduate of Phillips High School and a veteran of...
Harold Schrage
Nov 6, 2019
Harold “Hal” Schrage, age 93, of Tomahawk, passed away on November 6, in the community he loved with family by his bedside.
Hal was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on November 29, 1925, the only child of Christian Martin Schrage & Gertrude Baumbach better known as Christie and Gertie.
He spent his entire childhood living in the Milwaukee area. Hal was molded into...
Richard "Dick" F. Murphy
Nov 5, 2019
Richard Franklin Murphy (“Dick”) entered into his eternal home to be with our heavenly Father on November 5, 2019, surrounded by his loving wife Marie and his children. He was born December 14, 1931 in Alliance, Nebraska to Harry C. and Gladys (Keating) Murphy, and grew up in Aurora, Illinois. As a child he nurtured an early interest in railroads...
