Category: Obituaries

Sharon retired in 2002 from UW Department of Medicine after 38 years.

Laura was employed as a chemist at Badger Ordnance Ammunitions plant in Baraboo and University of Wisconsin Cancer Research Lab in Madison.

Romberg clerked in the admissions office for the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Baughman joined the UW journalism faculty in 1979. He revived and regularly taught the History of Mass Communication lecture course and frequently taught reporting classes. A popular instructor, Baughman won the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 2003. Baughman served two terms as director of the journalism school, from 2003 to 2009. He oversaw the School’s successful centennial celebration in 2005 and helped to establish the Center for Journalism Ethics several years later. As director, he gave many public service talks. He was the first recipient of the Ken and Linda Ciriacks Alumni Excellence Award in 2005, sponsored by the Wisconsin Alumni Association.

James Baughman, who spent more than 30 years as a journalism professor and instructor at UW-Madison, died Saturday morning from lung cancer at the age of 64.

She ended her teaching career at UW-Madison, retiring as a Senior Lecturer Emerita in 2002.

James Baughman, a longtime journalism professor at UW-Madison, died Saturday morning from lung cancer, according to university officials. He was 64. Saturday had been deemed James Baughman Day with a proclamation signed by Mayor Paul Soglin that said the day was to celebrate “the love and intellectual passion (Baughman) has inspired in his current and former students, and for his contributions to scholarship, history, journalism and education.”

A familiar face to Marquette University basketball fans has passed away after a battle with pulmonary fibrosis and rejection after a double lung transplant.

Trey Schwab passed away Sunday, March 20th at UW Hospital in Madison.

A former Marquette men’s basketball assistant who later worked as an advocate for the University of Wisconsin organ donor program has died, 12 years after receiving a double-lung transplant.

University Hospital spokeswoman Lisa Brunette says Trey Schwab passed away Sunday at the Madison facility. He was 50 years old.

Prominent organ transplant advocate and former Marquette men’s assistant basketball coach Trey Schwab has died. After receiving his transplant, he stepped down as assistant coach to work for UW Hospital. He became a vigorous advocate for organ donation and transplants.

Yvonne had a long and productive career as an academic staff member at the University of Wisconsin Medical School. She joined Ophthalmology, then a Division of the Surgery Department in 1960 and, using her innate artistic talent, quickly mastered the then new techniques of binocular indirect ophthalmoscopy and stereoscopic retinal photography.

Former Marquette men’s basketball assistant coach Trey Schwab has died, losing his battle from complications of the double-lung transplant he received more than 12 years ago.

Grigsby earned a bachelor’s degree from Howard University and a master’s from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. As well as her career in social work, Grigsby taught at UW-Madison, UW-Milwaukee, Carroll University and Cardinal Stritch University.

Mike worked at the UW-Madison Space and Science Engineering until his retirement.

He taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and also as Doctor Honoris Causa at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas. Over his career, Al authored eight books, several monographs, and numerous scholarly articles. His publications are still in use by universities around the world.

He worked for the UW Property Control Office for 25 years, until his retirement.

Leo was a research assistant at the UW-Madison Horticulture Department for 37 years, focusing on disease resistance, and herbicide and pesticide development. He worked primarily with Wisconsin’s potato and cranberry growers until his retirement in 1987.

She graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where she worked at the college paper, The Daily Cardinal, and met Mr. Norton, whom she married much later. Her previous marriage ended in divorce.

Berniece … worked for the University of Wisconsin Witte Hall Dormitory until her retirement.

Johnson joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin, in the Department of Economics, in 1957. He served as associate chairman and chairman of the department from 1962 to 1968. After a year of leave at the National University of Singapore, he returned to the Department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin and later became Dean of International Studies and programs from 1972 to 1980. He served simultaneously for two years as Director of the Industrial Relations Research Institute from 1978 to 1981 and as Director of the Center for Development from 1984 to 1988, when he retired from the university.

She was Associate Professor of Nursing at the UW-Madison School of Nursing.

Through his teaching of disciplined marketing planning, Roman both inspired and scared the hell out of hundreds of UW-Madison students. He made marketing feel very much like science, not just the art that they thought it was.

Jean worked for the UW’s Engineering College as a programmer on the school’s early computer – the WISC, and then worked on a monumental project developing a computerized Dictionary of American Regional English.

A recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has died as a result of a skiing accident. Bethany L. Rieth, 24, Oconto Falls, passed away Saturday morning at Divine Savior Hospital shortly after the mishap occurred at Cascade Mountain Ski Hill near Portage.

Marjorie retired in 1987 from her position as office manager of the Molecular Biology Laboratory on the campus of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Glenn worked for the University of Wisconsin as Assistant to the Vice President of Administration.

Lorna Jorgenson Wendt, whose high-stakes, highly publicized divorce settlement of 1997 engendered a national conversation about the economic worth of corporate spouses, died on Thursday in Stamford, Conn. She was 72.

He was employed by the University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and was the Shepherd of the UW Sheep Research Center in Arlington, Wis.

In 1965 when Chester accepted a position in the East Asian Studies department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Chester would remain on the faculty until he retired in 1997.

After many years as a homemaker, she took great pride in her work at the UW-Madison Purchasing Department and retired after 20 years of service.

Richard “Buz” Cooper, a Milwaukee native and physician who was dean of the Medical College of Wisconsin from 1985 to 1994 and who later became a respected voice in health policy, died Jan. 15 in New York City from complications from pancreatic cancer.

Victoria spent the better part of 25 years teaching at the UW-Madison in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

Sandy worked part time for UW-Madison Police Department as a security officer at the Chazen Museum of Art on campus.

After completing her undergraduate and graduate degrees at UW-Madison, Louise became one of five reference librarians at UW’s Memorial Library. She later became the Art Reference and Assistant Art Librarian for Kohler Art Library at the Elvehjem Museum (now the Chazen), retiring from this position in the early 1980s.

He was hired as a police officer with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department in December 1964 and proudly served the university community until January 1994 when he retired as a Police Captain.

Leonard Berkowitz, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Vilas Research Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died on Sunday, Jan. 3, 2016. Dr. Berkowitz served on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin at Madison from 1955 to 1989.

Noted: Stanley Kutler, 80. University of Wisconsin-Madison historian and pre-eminent American legal and constitution scholar who waged successful battle to make public Richard Nixon’s secret White House recordings. April 17.

Lee served in an administrative capacity at the University of Wisconsin-Madison until her retirement.

Shah immigrated to the United States in 1965 and joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1966, first as a post-doctoral fellow and then as a research scientist. During his time at the UW, he became a leading researcher in the Department of Bacteriology and an internationally recognized figure in the study of nitrogenase, enzymes that allow organisms to fix atmospheric nitrogen. His pioneering work synthesizing the iron-molybdenum cofactor (FeMoCo) remains central to research in the field decades after its publication in journals such as Nature, The Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Biochemistry, and Journal of Biological Chemistry. In 1992, his distinguished career was honored with the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research. He retired from UW in 1998 with emeritus status as a senior scientist.

Sandy worked as a chemist at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.

Vinod K. Shah, a retired UW-Madison research scientist whose work was internationally recognized, died Monday. He was 81.

She worked as a media specialist in Molecular Biology.

A touching note written by a terminally ill woman shortly before her death, which was then posted to her Facebook page by her husband after she died, has gone viral on December 16.

Early Tuesday, Jeff McManamy put a heartbreaking post on his wife’s Facebook page: McFarland’s Heather McManamy – who faced terminal illness by writing letters to her young daughter, drawing worldwide attention – died of metastatic cancer.

Noted: Attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Mr. Fraser worked on the student newspaper and earned a bachelor’s degree in economics in 1949. He later earned a master’s degree at what was then the New School for Social Research in New York.

Shirley was on the staff of WisTEP of the UW-Madison campus for 12 years, where she and others developed and facilitated graduate level Science summer courses for classroom science teachers.

Bob joined the staff of the Astronomy Department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1958 and retired as professor emeritus in 1994. His dedication to astronomy education extended far beyond the academic community and helped set a pattern of outreach to the general public now widely followed by NASA and other institutions. The clearest manifestation of that dedication was his founding, in 1990, of UW Space Place.

Susan was a research assistant at the UW-Madison plant pathology department, retiring in 1984.

Pellegrino was a Clinical Associate Professor of the Department of Surgery at the UW-Madison Medical School where he trained several generations of residents in orthopaedic surgery.

Carol (was) an Electron Microscopist and well published cancer researcher while working for the University of Wisconsin-Madison for over 30 years.

Smith, 40, worked in biotech research for UW-Madison.

After years in the private sector (CUNA, Full Compass, Great Lakes Higher Education) he joined his beloved UW-Madison as a contract administrator in RSP, and spent the last seven years as the Astronomy Department Administrator.

Noted: In 1952 he received his doctorate in theoretical physics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. It was in graduate school that his interest in the nascent field of digital computers took root. For his Ph.D. thesis, he drafted a design for what became known as the Wisconsin Integrally Synchronized Computer, or W.I.S.C., an early digital computer.