Viroqua Woman Dies in Weekend Highway Crash
A 24 year old Viroqua woman Mary Lou Tess Fortney died in a one car crash on Highway 27 near the Monroe county line early Sunday. Passenger Randy Larson and Jane Ann Jacobson were injured and taken to Vernon Memorial Hospital. Fortney’s death marked Monroe County’s fifth highway fatality this year.
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Monroe County
Mary Lou “Tess” Fortney
E. Court St
Viroqua
Randy R. Larson
State St
Westby
Monroe-Vernon
Jefferson
Miss Fortney
St. Mary's Hospital
Sparta
Gary Winningham
Larson
Jane Ann Jacobson
Vernon Memorial Hospital
Ralph Osborne
Kenneth and
Helen
Davidson) Fortney
Viroqua High School
Western Wisconsin Technical Institute
la Crosse
Norseland Nursing Home
Six Wisconsinites drown during weekend span
Six Wisconsinites drowned over the weekend in locations including Lake Redstone near Reedsburg, a pond on a farm, a quarry pond near De Pere, Lake Monona, Quarry Lake Park in Mount Pleasant, and the Flambeau River at Ladysmith. Names include Jeffrey Bass 12 Roderick Pienta 12 Scott Bildings 17 a 29 year old man from Dane County and Jeremiah Jones 3 and Raymond Marten 19. Mae K Hufschmidt 91 of Lansing Iowa died Sunday at Thornton Manor Nursing Home. Burial and services follow in Lansing.
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Jeremiah Jones
Thomas Jones
Racine
Quarry Lake Park
Mount Pleasant
Raymond Marten
Rice Lake
Flambeau River
Ladysmith
Mae K. Hufschmidt
Lansing
Iowa
Thornton Manor
John C
Mary (Kerrigan) Brophy
Leo T. Hufschmidt
Annette Silberberg
la Crosse
Correction Two Surviving Sisters Omitted From Nimmo Obit
Obituary for Thomas G Nimmo 42 of 1610 Lakeshore Drive lists two sisters Judith Brush Onalaska and Rozanne Schwabenbauer Trempealeau as omitted. Services for Nimmo were held today.
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Lakeshore Drive
Sunday Tribune
Judith A. Brush
Onalaska
Rozanne Schwabenbauer
Trempealeau
Nimmo
Two Minnesotans drown in separate weekend incidents
John Hofmeister 19 of New Ulm remains missing after entering Cottonwood River at Flandrau State Park and going over a 15 foot dam. Earlier three New Ulm teens also went over the dam in inner tubes but were rescued without injury. In Canada near the border Sloan Scott Forrest 7 of St Vincent drowned while swimming in the Red River at Emerson Manitoba.
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John Hofmeister
Cottonwood
Flandrau State Park
Hofmeister
Sloan Scott Forrest
St. Vincent, Mann
Red River
Emerson
Man
Minnesota
Canada
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