When it came to life in Richfield, Ralph F. Schulteis did it all. Between farm chores, Schulteis volunteered to fight fires, build parks and ball fields, preserve historic mills and make maple syrup. All that alongside a 41-year run of continuous service in local government.
A teacher by profession, Mary F. Perry never gave up caring about young people and matter-of-factly letting them know what was expected. "You know, Mama Perry loves you," she'd tell the young and not-so-young at her church and in the community.
When Pabst Brewing closed, Ed Thekan was hired to help his former co-workers find new employment. With the brewery closing in 1996, he joined the Milwaukee HIRE Center, assigned to help Pabst workers. He continued to help other displaced workers at the center until his own retirement.
From the RiverWalk to the Menomonee Valley, Michael J. Wisniewski left his mark on Milwaukee.
But for a gift from a family in grief, Sue Zintek would not have had the heart to go on living and loving. Back in 1985, Zintek became one of the first dozen heart transplant recipients in Milwaukee County.
June Brinkerhoff became a nurse - and found a husband - because of an unlikely series of unfortunate events. Her mother, Sadie Polzin, was hospitalized and then died of influenza during the great pandemic of 1918.
Hundreds of people every year have a chance for a better L.I.F.E. - Leisure, Inclusion, Fun and Experiences - thanks to Lynne M. Allen.
Long after Marquette University no longer had a football team, Marvin R. Swentkofske was still organizing football player reunions.
After a lifetime of working with engines and machines, David W. Schlueter found a new and unexpected career as a metal artist.
Erv Nowak knew that there were tough breaks - and lucky breaks - in life.
Goldie Skodras worked for most of her life, first in her parents' grocery store and then at The Cobbler Shop business started with her husband.
Michael R. Ward's tattoos tell the story of what was important to him. One included the names of his five daughters. Another declared him to be "Union Proud." Yet another, inexplicably for someone raised in Milwaukee, identified him as a Miami Dolphins fan.
Walter Cronkite, who pioneered and then mastered the role of television news anchorman with such plain-spoken grace that he was called the most trusted man in America, died Friday at his home in New York. He was 92.
As much as anything, a little drawer in a bedside table tells some of the story of Mary Rypel's life. It holds hundreds of holy cards - tiny treasures handed out at funerals or just for prayer.
Kitty Uebelherr did two things better than anything else. First, she was a musician, also teaching harp and piano. Second, she was a mother.
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