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Obituaries in the Feb. 22, 2000, issue of the Tomahawk Leader include:
Dorothy E. Hoffman, 76, Tomahawk (2/19/00);
Hildegarde S. Blackmer, 89, Tomahawk and formerly of Milwaukee (2/18/00);
Therese Marie "Terry" Way, 74, California, with a daughter, Julie Dentler, in Tomahawk (2/10/00).
Obituaries in the Feb. 29, 2000, issue of the Tomahawk Leader include:
William "Bill" L. Krueger, 64, Sarasota, Fla., who was born and grew up in Tomahawk (2/24/00);
George Ralph Kallin Jr., Ogema (2/24/00);
Helen C. Thompson, 89, Oshkosh, formerly of Tomahawk (2/26/00);
Minnie Bagley, 89, Merrill (2/21/00);
Cornelious P. "Casey" Swan, 73, Tomahawk (2/23/00).
Obituaries in the May 16, 2000, issue of the Tomahawk Leader include:
Sylverster "Kurt" Kurtzweil, 76, Tomahawk (5/13/00);
Jack Harry Hanson, 64, Tucson, Ariz. (4/29/00).
Obituaries appearing in the June 6, 2000, issue of the Tomahawk Leader include:
Dean Waid, 49, Town of Corning, president and funeral director of Waid Funeral Home, Merrill, (killed 6/3/00 near Tomahawk as a result of a motorcycle accident);
John J. Theiler, 51, Mohawk, Mich. (5/20/00);
and Viola A. Gesell, 72, Tomahawk (5/31/00).
Obituaries appearing in the June 20, 2000, issue of the Tomahawk Leader include:
Mary Edmunds, 84, former owner and operator of Mary's Diner (6/18/00);
David L. Owsianny, 56, Milwaukee and a summer resident of Lake Nokomis (6/17/00);
Margaret Olson, 87, Tomahawk (6/17/00);
Donald A. Gall, Tomahawk (6/15/00);
James F. Komarek, 70, St. Charles, Ill., with a cottage on Lake Nokomis (6/12/00);
Josephine Plucinski, 85, Tomahawk (6/12/00);
Lois K. Hanson, 70, Rhinelander, a Tomahawk resident most of her life (6/15/00);
Elsie N. Robbins, 95, Tomahawk, 6/17/00).
Obituaries in the Aug. 15, 2000, issue of the Tomahawk Leader include:
Eldridge "Babe" Polege, 74, Tomahawk, former owner of the Federated Store, the Haberdashery and Dee's Halmark (8/9/00);
Lloyd W. "Tiny" Johnson, 70, Tomahawk, a truck driver, most recently for A.J. Sales-Luige's Pizza (8/7/00);
Ruth M. Voermans, 79, Tomahawk, former teacher at Harrison Grade School (8/7/00);
Lee J. Mead, 84, Tomahawk, a dairy farmer in the Tomahawk area for many years (8/10/00);
L. Leona Williams 75, Tomahawk, who had worked at Marplex in Rhinelander and the former Friends and Fashions Store in Tomahawk (8/13/00).
Obituaries in the Aug. 29, 2000, issue of the Tomahawk Leader include:
Jack Wurl, 76, Tomahawk, who worked for many years at Owens-Illinois (8/24/00);
Marion J. Byers, 73, Tomahawk, formerly of Pewaukee (8/23/00);
Leslie R. Lynd, 46, Summersville, Ky., who served in the Vietnam War (8/25/00);
Robert R. Javens, 71, Brookfield, who had a summer home in the Irma area (8/24/00).
Obituaries in the Oct. 10, 2000, issue of the Tomahawk Leader include:
Ty Hilgendorf, 68, Tomahawk, a self-employed owner/operator of a fuel distributorship for more than 40 years (family indicates business will continue) and the original Ski-Doo dealer for Tomahawk (10/3/00);
Jeremiah Faust, 20, Tomahawk, the result of an off-road motorcycle accident near his home in the Town of Nokomis (10/10/00);
Connie Vander Voort, 92, Tomahawk (10/7/00);
Margaret C. McFadden, 81, Tomahawk (10/5/00);
Martha Mott, 83, Eau Claire, who graduated from Tomahawk High School and worked for Dr. R.J. Henderson before moving to Eau Claire in 1967 (10/2/00);
Lyle E. Erickson, 71, Genoa City (10/2/00);
Gene Kolden, 64, Tomahawk (10/9/00); Guy M. Schwartz, 78, Coloma, moved to Tomahawk following retirement in 1981 (10/2/00).
Obituaries in the Oct. 24, 2000, issue of the Tomahawk Leader include:
Vera F. Ingman, 63, Tomahawk, who with her husband owned and operated Ingman's Service in the Town of Nokomis for 34 years and in Rhinelander for the last 15 years (10/22/00);
Martha A. Kwarciany, 81, Tomahawk (10/16/00);
Lola G. Fehr, 79, Tomahawk (10/22/00);
Mariana Leider, 73, a former graphic artist for the Department of Natural Resources (10/17/00).
Obituaries in the Nov. 7, 2000, issue of the Tomahawk Leader include:
Leone B. Kurtz, 92, Tomahawk, who lived in Tomahawk the past 10 years (11/5/00);
Jeannette Phoebe Unangst, 84, Rockford, Ill. (10/30/00).
Obituaries in the Nov. 14, 2000, issue of the Tomahawk Leader include:
Earl E. Krueger, 81, Wausau, a veteran who passed way Veterans Day (11/11/00);
Esther Teal, 91, Tomahawk, (11/8/00).
Obituaries in the Dec. 5, 2000, issue of the Tomahawk Leader include:
Michael H. Teal, 60, Tomahawk, a motor mechanic at Tenneco Packaging for more than 40 years (12/3/00);
Ruth Griesheimer, 89, Tomahawk, a retired payroll clerk for Great Lakes Naval Training Center (12/1/00);
Keith C. Paulson, 77, Livonia, Mich., who vacationed in the Tomahawk area for 50 years (11/12/00);
Elmer C. Bell, 83, Tomahawk, who retired in 1982 from Owens-Illinois (12/1/00);
Robert H. Claus, 77, West Bend, who retired from West Bend Co. in 1979, worked as a consultant for Emerson Electric and Bemis Manufacturing Co., and lived in Tomahawk between 1981-91 with his wife, Gayle, (11/24/00);
Herman Gaedtke Jr., 73, Palmer, Alaska, a sheet metal worker for 37 years (11/22/00);
Ralph G. Burroughs, 74, Tomahawk, served in the U.S. Navy and Air Force and was stationed in Lincoln, Neb., until retirement in 1963 as a staff sergeant, moving to Tomahawk in 1966 (12/1/00);
Mildred J. Schon, 97, formerly of Waukegan, Milwaukee, West Allis, Sun Prairie and Eau Claire (11/24/00);
Loraine Marston, 77, Tomahawk, formerly of Beloit and Ventura County, Calif., (12/1/00);
Obituaries in the Dec. 12, 2000, issue of the Tomahawk Leader include:
Estelle Birch, 72, Tomahawk, who with her husband, Royal, owned and operated Royal's Live Bait Shop in Tripoli for more than 40 years (12/6/00);
James D. Taylor, 89, Merrill, born in Tomahawk and retired in the area in 1988 (12/6/00);
Jeanne Swiger Gaffney, 41, died in Columbia, Md., following a battle with cancer, had lived in Tomahawk during 1995-97, and was a retired Senior Chief in the U.S. Navy (12/6/00);
Edward Paul "Feetz" Hable, 85, Oshkosh, who died after battling cancer, was in the Civilian Conservation Corps in Tomahawk during the 1930s and retired in 1975 as a captain in the Oshkosh Fire Department after 29 years of service (12/6/00).
