Category: Obituaries

Bob worked at the UW Madison Department of Chemistry as a machinist, retiring in 1984, and able to claim that a spring he built went up in the space shuttle.

Herrmann taught on the University of Wisconsin physical education faculty and served as Executive Secretary of the American College of Sports Medicine.

Verne worked for the University of Wisconsin Physical Plant for 40 years, until his retirement in 1992.

Hoffmann worked at UW-Madison as a filmmaker and photographer in the Department of Agricultural Journalism, now the Department of Life Sciences Communication.

Noted: Lacy played college football at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the U.S. Air Force Academy, his family said. He received a bachelor’s degree in business from UW-Milwaukee in 1968.

David dedicated 37 years of state employment and service at the UW-Madison research labs where he worked in medical research.

She supervised all the phone accounts for UW-Madison and retired in 1983.

She devoted eight years to lobbying for the WNA, earned her master’s degree, and spent 24 years as Clinical Professor of Nursing at UW, retiring as Professor Emeritus in 2001.

In 2011, Doc and Lea established the ’Doc and Lea De Haven Music Excellence Award’ at the UW-Madison School of Music, to support undergraduate music performance majors, with preference given to those studying trumpet and/or jazz.

Noted: He was united in marriage to Alice McBrian on June 20, 1965, in Springfield, Ill. Richard graduated from Northern Illinois University with a B.A. in Art, and he later received his M.F.A. from University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was a faculty member at UW-Madison in the Art Department for over 30 years.

He worked at the University Of Wisconsin Graduate School as a computer programmer.

Albert “Ab” Nicholas, a former standout for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball program turned successful businessman and prominent booster, died Thursday morning. He was 85.

Albert O. “Ab” Nicholas, a prominent philanthropist and nationally known Milwaukee money manager, died Thursday.Nicholas, who was 85, donated millions to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, his alma mater; to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee; to Brightstar Foundation for investment in the state’s emerging growth companies; and to many other causes.

Ole worked for Ryser Brothers as a cheese maker, AMPI milk plant in Mount Horeb, UW Babcock Hall from where he retired.

Dr. Abrahamson joined the UW-Madison faculty in 1961, teaching courses in zoology and genetics, and was recognized by his students as an outstanding teacher.

Over the years, Tony worked in the areas of HVAC and maintenance including at the University of Wisconsin.

In the fall of 1966, he moved with his family to Wisconsin, Madison, where he became a Full Professor at the University of Wisconsin.

Not only was Seymour Abrahamson an internationally known geneticist, he also had amazing people skills, said friends and colleagues Sunday, the day after Abrahamson died from cancer. He was 88. The UW-Madison professor was also the husband of Supreme Court Justice Shirley Abrahamson, the longest serving justice on the bench and a former chief justice. The couple would have been married 63 years in August, Shirley Abrahamson said in an email.

He retired from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2002.

Bush was an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Wisconsin Medical School and clinical practitioner teaching medical students and residents at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics from 1975-1998.

She very much enjoyed her job at Camp Randall with the UW Athletics Department. She retired in 2009.

In 1968 he joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin, where he remained until his retirement in 2000.

Obituary for UW-Madison student who died while studying abroad in Italy.

He retired after 10 years of working at the UW Madison as a custodian and continued to farm until 1987.

pon leaving UW Hospital, Don worked as an assistant to the Dean of Pharmacy School working with students in the new Doctor of Pharmacy degree program.

He worked for Promega Corporation and then the UW-Madison Biochemistry Department.

Kathie moved to Madison in 1978, where she began a 32 year career in medical research at the UW Clinical Science Center. She began work as a Research Project Coordinator in the UW Department of Human Oncology, working with breast cancer and pediatric leukemia research groups. In 1992, Kathie joined the Wisconsin Cystic Fibrosis Neonatal Screening Project in Pediatrics, where she worked for 15 years in pre/post-award grant management and cystic fibrosis clinical trials research. During that time she also held a part-time instructor position at Madison Area Technical College, where she taught microbiology and chemistry. From April 2007 until she retired in 2010, Kathie was a research program manager with the Department of Urology.

Inspired by a Life magazine article about Frank Lloyd Wright, Gertrude Kerbis, then a student at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, hitchhiked to Wright’s Taliesin estate in Spring Green, Wis. Entranced by the rooms she was seeing as she peered through glass exterior walls, she crawled in a bathroom window and somehow managed to stay the night.By the time she awoke the next morning, she recalled in a short 2008 film about her life, “I had decided I was going to be an architect.”

Gene worked many years on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.

He taught law at both the University of Iowa College of Law and at the University of Wisconsin Law School and was an attorney with the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture.

Carol worked as a Health Sciences Librarian at the University of Wisconsin Medical Library.

She worked as a program assistant for the UW-Madison Provost and retired on April 4, 2016, after working at the UW for 34 years.

He joined the faculty at UW-Madison in 1970 and published numerous articles over the course of his career. He was dedicated to the field of nephrology through the care of his patients and in his academic research.

Madison, Wisconsin, and the world have lost a great voice for peace and justice. Poet and activist Daniel Kunene died this past week at the age of 93. Kunene was a professor emeritus in the University of Wisconsin Department of African Languages and Literature for the past thirty-three years. He authored sixteen books in English and Sesotho (a southern Bantu language of his native South Africa), as well as countless articles, essays, and individual poems.

Frank came to the University of Wisconsin Madison in 1970 serving as the University’s Director of Physical Plant until retiring in 1990. He was well respected in his field and was the President of the American Public Works Association.

Daniel P Kunene, emeritus professor of African Languages and Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died peacefully at his home on the evening of May 27, 2016 surrounded by his family. He was 93.

Every evening, Marci Kunene shared dinner and a glass of wine with her husband, Daniel Kunene. And every night, for the past three months, he told her, “I love you and thank you for being my wife.”

He worked for UW-Madison Housing as a building superintendent.

Laura worked as an editor at the University of Wisconsin Press and later at the UW Oral History Project.

He served as a county extension agent in Washington and Rock Counties, Minn. Professor Forest worked for 24 years as a faculty member in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and the Department of Continuing and Vocational Education.

Noted: Sumner Pence Slichter was born Aug. 31, 1953, in Champaign, Ill. He came to Madison to attend the University of Wisconsin, where he graduated in 1980 with a degree in mathematics. He also played viola in the UW orchestra. Slichter Hall at UW was named after his great-grandfather, Charles Sumner Slichter.

Having earned the position of Dean in the Graduate Office she retired after 43 years and continued her support as a UW Alumni.

Later in life, she was a supervisor at the University of Wisconsin Research Lab.

Johnson was a custodian at UW for nine years.

Letter to the editor: Recently UW-Madison provided a lesson in racial disparity, institutional racism and unconscious bias. This past year has seen racist and anti-Semitic threats, as well as verbal and physical assaults on students.

Mathilda Vandenbergh Schwalbach, age 98, retired faculty member of UW’s School of Human Ecology, passed away Oct. 17, 2015.

One of the responsibilities of a writer is to remember. It is simply part of what we do. We collect stories, images, experiences and ideas, and we put them into words to, among other things, save them. I was reminded of this responsibility as I reflected on the loss, the deaths, of Jim Harrison and Jim Baughman, two people I respected and learned from in very different ways for very different reasons.

Merry attended UW-Madison for graduate school and then taught in the English department. She later went to UW Law School and upon graduation became a clinical professor of law. Within several years, she was named Director of the Frank J. Remington Center where she worked until her “retirement” in 2012. She continued to teach at the law school until 2014.

Peggy had a long and productive career, first as an administrative assistant at UW-Madison …

In 1970, Butch took a few rings of venison sausage to a favorite Badger haunt, Rhode’s Steak House. A hat was passed and $45 was collected, launching Butch’s Badger Bologna Bash. Over the course of 30+ years, the Bash raised more than $3 million for UW athletics and Band. Today a fully endowed “Butch & Ruth Strickler” scholarship is awarded to a UW athlete each year.

Mark was an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he taught 1952-92. He served as Chair during the Vietnam War years, 1963-68.

Lloyd Charles Pray was a loving husband, father, and highly-regarded professor who inspired thousands of students at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where he taught Geology for nearly four decades.

Lloyd Charles Pray was a loving husband, father, and highly-regarded professor who inspired thousands of students at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where he taught Geology for nearly four decades. His positive outlook and infectious enthusiasm, along with his candor and sense of humor, endeared him to many throughout his life.