August 2023

  Margaret (nee Haas) Furuseth, age 99, passed away on Friday, August 11, 2023, at Divine Rehabilitation & Nursing in Fennimore on the same day that her beloved husband Dean passed away 23 years ago. She was born in a farmhouse in Earlville, Iowa on April 15, 1924; the daughter of Edward F. and Iva V. (Wendling) Haas. She was the middle child of 9 children and did all of her schooling in a country school. She married Dean H. Furuseth on August 31, 1943, in Marion, Iowa. After she and Dean had their first child DiAnn and when she was […]

Darrel L. Ellis, age 88, of Lancaster, WI died on Monday morning August 7, 2023, at the Grant Regional Health Center in Lancaster. He was born on December 11, 1934, the son of Oswald and Gertrude (Cummins) Ellis. Darrel was united in marriage to Bernice Pickel on June 13, 1964, at the United Methodist Church in Lancaster. Darrel delivered papers as a teen and later plowed snow for the Little Grant Township in his younger years. He graduated from Lancaster High School and became a heavy equipment tester for John Deere Cooperation in Dubuque. He was a dedicated employee until