Margaret Ella Krohn, 98, of Iron Ridge, passed away on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, at the Gardens of Hartford in Hartford.   Margaret was born the daughter of Paul and Mabel (Wittchow) Uttech on November 29, 1925, in Lebanon.   She was united in marriage to Ewald Krohn on August 20, 1949, at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Lebanon.   Margaret was a faithful member of St. Matthew’s Ev. Lutheran Church in Iron Ridge.    Margaret farmed for many years with her husband, Ewald, in the Town of Herman.   She was a member of the Oak Grove Homemakers Club. Margaret was a very talented seamstress and enjoyed sewing and embroidering. She took pride in her veggie gardens and enjoyed gardening in her colorful flowers. Margaret looked forward to spending time with her family and enjoyed baking and cooking for them.    Margaret is survived by her children, Norma Bell (significant other Harris Cotter) of Theresa, Howard (Barb) Krohn of Iron Ridge, Linda (Richard) Zarling of West Bend, Joyce (Mark) Scharpf of Rubicon, Victor (Kendy) Krohn of Iron Ridge, Harvey Krohn of Slinger, Carol (Dennis) Justman of Boulder Junction, and Curtis (Carrie) Krohn of Neosho; 17 grandchildren; 29 great-grandchildren; sister, Eileen Gentz of Beaver Dam; and one sister-in-law, Claudia Krohn of Tucson, AZ. Margaret is further survived by many other dear relatives and friends.    Margaret was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Ewald; her sister in infancy; and brothers, Raymond, Elmer, Melvin, and Floyd.   Funeral services for Margaret were held on Monday, Dec. 11, at 1 p.m. at St. Matthew’s Ev. Lutheran Church in Iron Ridge with Rev. Larry Mose officiating. A visitation for Margaret was held on Monday, Dec. 11, at church from 11 a.m. until the time of service at 1 p.m. Interment followed the service at St. Matthew’s Cemetery in Iron Ridge.   The family would like to extend a special thank you to the staff at the Gardens of Hartford and at St. Croix Hospice for the compassionate care they showed their mother.   Memorials may be directed to St. Matthew's Ev. Lutheran Church.   Koepsell funeral home in Mayville is caring for the family. www.Koepsellfh.com

   LaV­ern M. Pieper, 85, of Bur­nett passed away on Thurs­day, Nov. 30, 2023.   LaV­ern was born on July 12, 1938, the son of Ervin and Leona (Woock) Pieper. He at­tended school in Bur­nett and also Hori­con High School.    On April 24, 1965, he was mar­ried to Ruth A. Binder at Zion Ev. Lutheran Church in Bur­nett.   LaV­ern was an ac­tive mem­ber of the Bur­nett Fire De­part­ment since 1956 and had served as Trea­surer and Cap­tain of the Mack Water Tanker. He was a mem­ber of the Dodge County An­tique Power Club and en­joyed help­ing with his skid steer.   LaV­ern was bap­tized and con­firmed at Zion Lutheran Church in Bur­nett, where he also had served as Trustee. He was a life­time farmer and en­joyed mak­ing hay and help­ing any­one he could. LaV­ern also loved going to watch his grand­chil­dren par­tic­i­pate in their sport­ing events.   LaV­ern will be deeply missed by his wife of 58 years, Ruth; his daugh­ter, Cyn­thia Pieper; and his son, Clint (Tr­isha) Pieper; his grand­chil­dren, Caitlin and Cody Pieper; his brother, Mer­lin Pieper; and his sis­ter, Jan­ice Pieper; niece, Pa­tri­cia (Andy) and nephew, Robert (Nan); also other rel­a­tives and friends.    He was pre­ceded in death by his par­ents; his mother and fa­ther-in-law; son, Craig, in 1974; and brother-in-law, Vir­gil Binder in 1973.   A vis­i­ta­tion for LaV­ern was held on Mon­day, Dec. 4, from 4 p.m. until 6 p.m. at Zion Ev. Lutheran Church and on Tues­day, Dec. 5, from 10 a.m. until 11 a.m. also at Zion Ev. Lutheran Church. A fu­neral ser­vice began at 11 a.m. with the Rev. Tim Sal­lach of­fi­ci­at­ing. Bur­ial fol­lowed at Stone Ceme­tery in the Town of Bur­nett.   Memo­r­ial do­na­tions in LaV­ern’s name may be di­rect to the Bur­nett Fire De­part­ment, Zion Ev. Lutheran Church, the Dodge County An­tique Power Club or the char­ity of one’s choice.   The Koepsell-Mur­ray Fu­neral Home in Beaver Dam is serv­ing the Fam­ily. On­line con­do­lences may be made at www.​koepsellfh.​com.

   Elmer Silas Meyer, 95, passed away on Tues­day, Nov. 21, 2023, with his wife at his side at their home in the Town of Her­man.   Elmer was born on July 29, 1928, to Silas and Hed­wig (Brandt) Meyer in Hill­point. He was bap­tized as an in­fant on Au­gust 12, 1928, and was later con­firmed in his faith as a youth on May 10, 1942, both at St. Paull Lutheran Church in Hill­point. He grad­u­ated from Reeds­burg High School in 1946 and con­tin­ued his ed­u­ca­tion with the Farm Short Course in Madi­son.   Elmer was united in mar­riage to Ir­m­gard Twar­dokus on Sep­tem­ber 12, 1951, at Trin­ity Ev. Lutheran Church in Huils­burg. The cou­ple was blessed with 72 years of mar­riage.   Elmer’s faith was very im­por­tant to him. He was a long­time mem­ber of St. Matthew’s Ev. Lutheran Church in Iron Ridge and served as Chair­man of the Con­gre­ga­tion. He was an elder, served on the church coun­cil, school board, and was in­stru­men­tal in many of the build­ing pro­jects for the church and school prop­er­ties.   Early in life, he farmed with his par­ents in the Town of Wash­ing­ton in Sauk County. He owned and op­er­ated Meyer Con­struc­tion Com­pany of Hart­ford for over 50 years. He was in­volved in his com­mu­nity and was on the Town of Her­man Board as a Su­per­vi­sor, was a Dodge County Su­per­vi­sor, and was a long-time mem­ber and Pres­i­dent of Pom­mer­scher Verein Freis­tadt.   Elmer looked for­ward to fish­ing and snow­mo­bil­ing at his cabin in Price County and hunt­ing for trea­sures at rum­mage sales and auc­tions. Deer hunt­ing near Hill­point was also a fa­vorite pas­time for Elmer and his fam­ily. Elmer truly en­joyed being with peo­ple. He will al­ways be re­mem­bered for his big smile and sto­ry­telling.   Elmer is sur­vived by his wife, Ir­m­gard; chil­dren, Bon­nie (Leo) Bor­den, Irene Bakken, Dawn (Ran­dal) Cut­ter, Court­ney (Amy) Meyer; 16 grand­chil­dren; 25 great-grand­chil­dren; and sis­ter, Elaine Schulz. Elmer is fur­ther sur­vived by many other rel­a­tives and friends.   Elmer was pre­ceded in death by his par­ents; son-in-law, Richard Bakken; and three sis­ters, Viola Lueck, Mar­garet Jensen, Valera Koch, and their hus­bands.   Fu­neral Ser­vices for Elmer took place on Wednes­day, Nov. 29, at 1 p.m. at St. Matthew’s Ev. Lutheran Church in Iron Ridge with Rev. Larry Mose and Rev. Steve Neu­man of­fi­ci­at­ing. A vis­i­ta­tion was held at church on Wednes­day, Nov. 29, from 11 a.m. until the time of ser­vice at 1 p.m. In­ter­ment fol­lowed the ser­vice at St. Matthew’s Ceme­tery in Iron Ridge.    In lieu of flow­ers and plants the fam­ily is re­quest­ing memo­ri­als be di­rected to St. Matthew’s Ev. Lutheran Church Re­fur­bish­ing Fund.   Koepsell Fu­neral Home in Mayville is car­ing for the fam­ily.

   Bon­nie Jean Kam­rath, 71, of Mayville, passed away peace­fully on Wednes­day, Nov. 22, 2023, with her fam­ily by her side, at St. Agnes Hos­pi­tal in Fond du Lac.   Bon­nie, born July 19, 1952, was the first-born daugh­ter of Palmer and Jane (Panzer) Schultz. She grew up with her four younger sib­lings on a dairy farm out­side of Hus­tis­ford. It in­stilled in her a strong work ethic, un­wa­ver­ing sense of em­pa­thy and com­pas­sion for all peo­ple and an­i­mals, and a strong foun­da­tion in faith, fam­ily, and friends. She was af­fec­tion­ately known as Bon­nie Jean “the beauty queen” or “Sissy” by her par­ents, sib­lings, and friends.   She was united in mar­riage to her beloved hus­band, Lloyd Glenn Kam­rath on Au­gust 18, 1973, at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Neosho. To­gether, they would work their own dairy farm, build a fam­ily, es­tab­lish strong roots in the Mayville com­mu­nity, and cel­e­brate nearly 50 years of mar­riage.   Bon­nie was an in­cred­i­bly de­voted wife, mother, grand­mother, and the sweet­est, most lov­ing, and car­ing per­son to cross your path. Bon­nie worked tire­lessly dur­ing her life on this earth to sup­port her hus­band on their fam­ily farm, while cre­at­ing a home filled with struc­ture, re­spon­si­bil­ity, love, laugh­ter, hugs, and kisses for her chil­dren, and grand­chil­dren.   Later in life, Bon­nie would pos­i­tively im­pact count­less lives as an early child­hood teacher at the Punkin Patch Day­care and as a teacher's aide for the Mayville School Dis­trict. If the weather was nice, you would most likely find Bon­nie on the front porch with her hus­band, Lloyd, lis­ten­ing to her fa­vorite oldies on the radio or Bob Uecker call­ing a Brew­ers game. She en­joyed watch­ing the neigh­bor­hood chil­dren bike up and down Clark Street or her beloved grand­kids play­ing in the front yard.    She will al­ways be re­mem­bered for her love of car­di­nals, polka music, danc­ing, the color pur­ple, singing a Christ­mas tune or hum­ming an oldie but goody, play­ing her ac­cor­dion for her brother and sis­ters, and plan­ning sur­prise par­ties for her par­ents. She showed her love for bak­ing, cook­ing, or mak­ing some fam­ily fa­vorites like choco­late chip bars, cu­cum­ber salad, peanut clus­ters, pizza burg­ers, hot dish, meat­loaf, and mashed pota­toes, a Fri­day night fish fry, a strong whiskey sour old fash­ioned with olives or a brandy and coke. Ac­cord­ing to her sib­lings, she was fa­mously quoted as say­ing “Who­ever drinks the fastest, drinks the mostest." She wore her emo­tions on her sleeves most days, re­li­giously fol­lowed her Wis­con­sin sports teams and her home­town Mayville Car­di­nals. She loved her church and the Lord, was in­volved in the church choir for many years, at­tended hun­dreds of her kids and grand­kids sport­ing events, mu­si­cals, plays, birth­day par­ties, and other events. She loved going out for break­fast with Lloyd to the Back Street Cafe or Diner 67 on week­ends for some crispy bacon, or a good meal and cock­tail at Blanck’s Sup­per Club or the Iron Ridge Inn. She was the life of the party, and a so­cial but­ter­fly to those who would run into our par­ents at the Pub, Roxy’s or the Sher­wood Cafe.    Bon­nie cher­ished her close cir­cle of friends, loved a good game of sheepshead or hearts, and was al­ways there to lis­ten, laugh, give a hug, or pro­vide her kids, fam­ily, friends, or a com­plete stranger with a kind word or act of com­pas­sion and en­cour­age­ment. We will never for­get her big heart, kind spirit, and will­ing­ness to sac­ri­fice any­thing needed to make our lives bet­ter. She al­ways saw the best in peo­ple, dished out com­pli­ments like they were candy to any­one that crossed her path, and will be sorely missed by her fam­ily and friends.   Bon­nie is sur­vived by her four chil­dren, Joel (Chris) Kam­rath of Wa­ter­town, Jamey Kam­rath of Mayville, Benji (Melinda) Kam­rath of Wa­ter­town, and Nicole (Adam) Oestre­ich of Mayville; 10 grand­chil­dren, Alexus, Han­nah, Colin, Brae­dyn, Pax­ton, Reece, Olivia, Brevon, Nahla, Sul­ley; her sis­ters, Karen (Alvin) Hilde­brandt, Sharon (Steve) Pat­ter­son, Holly (Mike) Peltier; and brother, Gerry (Agnes) Schultz; as well as other rel­a­tives and friends.   She was pre­ceded in death by her par­ents, Palmer and Jane Schultz and her beloved hus­band, Lloyd Kam­rath.   The vis­i­ta­tion was held at Koepsell Fu­neral Home in Mayville on Wednes­day, Nov. 29, from 4 until 7 p.m. Fu­neral ser­vices for Bon­nie will be held at St John’s Ev. Lutheran Church in Mayville on Thurs­day, Nov. 30, at 11 a.m. with Rev. Dr. Mark G. Cut­ler of­fi­ci­at­ing. There will be a brief sec­ond vis­i­ta­tion for Bon­nie at the church from 10 a.m. until the time of ser­vice at 11 a.m. In­ter­ment will fol­low the ser­vice at St. John’s Ceme­tery in Mayville.   In lieu of flow­ers, all do­na­tions will be given to St. John’s Lutheran Church or the Mayville Booster Club.   Koepsell Fu­neral Home in Mayville is car­ing for the fam­ily. www.​Koepsellfh.​com

   David E. Lentz, 80, of Horicon, died Friday, Nov. 24, 2023, at Clearview Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Juneau.   David Edward Lentz was born on October 13, 1943, in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin to Adelbert and Grace (Fagan) Lentz. He graduated from Horicon High School in 1961. Dave served his country in the United States Navy during the Vietnam War from October 15, 1964, to August 15, 1968.   On May 26, 1973, he was united in marriage with Marlene Froemming at St. Malachy Catholic Church in Horicon.   Dave worked at John Deere Horicon Works for many years, retiring in 2000.   He enjoyed gardening, reading, and watch watching military documentaries and history on Public TV.   Dave was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Horicon, where he served as sacristan and was on the Prayer and Worship committee. He was also a member of the Horicon American Legion Post #157.   Survivors include his wife, Marlene Lentz of Juneau; his daughter, Teresa (Chris) Sawyer of Horicon; two grandsons, Alexander Sawyer (Jennifer Schmidt) and Zachery Sawyer, both of Horicon; a brother-in-law, Robert Weiss of Horicon; a sister-in-law, Janice (Dan) Roethle; a brother-in-law, David (Kathy) Froemming; six nieces and nephews, Ellen (Mike) Christians, Marcia (Craig) Kadinger, Ryan (Nicole) Helmer, and their daughter, Sarah, Joel (Colleen) Christians, Caitlin (Brad) Engelmann, and Brian (Natalie) Froemming; other relatives and friends.   Dave was preceded in death by his parents; two sisters, Carol Weiss and Mary Helmer; a brother-in-law, Merlin Helmer; and a niece, Rachel Hammons.   Visitation for Dave will be at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Horicon on December 7, 2023 from 9:30 a.m. to 10:50 a.m. A Mass of Christian Burial will follow at church on December 7, at 11 a.m. Fr. Justin Lopina will officiate. Burial will be at St. Malachy Cemetery in Horicon, where military honors will be performed by Horicon American Legion Post #157.   If desired, memorials may be made in David E. Lentz’s name to Sacred Heart Church Food Pantry or the American Diabetes Association.   The Koepsell-Murray Funeral Home in Horicon is serving the family. www.KoepsellFH.com