The food jour­nal­ism in­dus­try lost a re­spected pro­fes­sional, friend and men­tor to many with the pass­ing of Jeanne M Bauer on May 24, 2024, at home in her beloved New York City.    Born on Sep­tem­ber 5, 1939, in Camp­bell­sport, Jeanne was pre­de­ceased by her par­ents, Floyd Thomas and Mil­dred (Schmitz) Bauer; brother, John F Bauer, Sr.; nephew, Joel Bauer; and great-great-niece, Hope Bauer.    She is sur­vived by six nieces and nephews, Gina Mohr, John Bauer Jr, Jill Carni (Al­bert), Jody Bauer (Laura), Jim Bauer (Shelly); and 16 great-nieces and nephews; and many cousins in Wis­con­sin and Ger­many.    Jeanne was a grad­u­ate of Alverno Col­lege, Mil­wau­kee.    She worked for Unilever early in her ca­reer, and then fol­low­ing her pas­sion for Jour­nal­ism, she moved to New York City to be­come Equip­ment Ed­i­tor at Amer­i­can Home Mag­a­zine. It was a job that helped de­fine Jeanne’s life in so many ways – from re­fin­ing her pas­sion for jour­nal­ism to meet­ing co-work­ers who be­came life-long friends.    In 1978, she was re­cruited by the mar­ket­ing firm Bots­ford Ketchum (now Ketchum Com­mu­ni­ca­tions) and re­lo­cated to San Fran­cisco, where she ex­celled at man­ag­ing food mar­ket­ing pro­grams for clients rang­ing from The Cal­i­for­nia Raisin Ad­vi­sory Board and Cal­i­for­nia Al­monds to Nor­way Sar­dines, Dole Foods, and Cham­bord Liqueur.    Jeanne bal­anced work with her love of travel, the­ater, mu­se­ums, and fre­quent week­end jaunts (in her bright red VW Bug con­vert­ible) to the wine coun­try in Napa and Sonoma Val­leys.    In the mid-1980s, Jeanne re­turned to her much-loved NYC and con­tin­ued her food mar­ket­ing ca­reer at Chiq­uita Brands.    Over the course of her ca­reer, Jeanne de­vel­oped a spe­cial fond­ness for the food­ser­vice in­dus­try. She found great joy in work­ing di­rectly with many top NYC chefs on be­half of her clients.    Ul­ti­mately, Jeanne left the cor­po­rate world and built her own busi­ness, serv­ing as a con­sul­tant to clients in the food and bev­er­age in­dus­try.    Through­out her ca­reer, Jeanne never hes­i­tated to share her wealth of knowl­edge with oth­ers en­ter­ing the in­dus­try, and be­came a val­ued friend and men­tor to many.    Her cre­ativ­ity and in­no­v­a­tive spirit melded seam­lessly with her pas­sion for food. She ex­celled at de­vel­op­ing new and sur­pris­ing ways of serv­ing up her clients’ food and bev­er­age prod­ucts.    Jeanne was a mar­velous cook and took great joy in using fresh sea­sonal in­gre­di­ents from New York’s farm­ers mar­kets as well as prepar­ing recipes she learned from her mother. She loved to en­ter­tain, prepar­ing de­li­cious meals that she served up in a con­vivial at­mos­phere that cel­e­brated her friend­ships as much as the food and wine she served. She fre­quently wel­comed out of town friends and col­leagues into her home, en­thu­si­as­ti­cally shar­ing the best NYC had to offer at that mo­ment in­clud­ing food, cul­ture and her lat­est shop­ping tips. Jeanne al­ways rel­ished the in­vi­ta­tions from her Amer­i­can Home friends who lived out­side the city and would reg­u­larly wel­come her into their homes for week­ends, hol­i­day fes­tiv­i­ties and week-long re­treat to the coun­try.    Giv­ing back to the city, she called home was very im­por­tant to Jeanne. For many years, she vol­un­teered through her church, St. John The Evan­ge­list Catholic Church, to bring food and com­pan­ion­ship to NYC shut-ins and se­niors.    Do­na­tions may be made in Jeanne’s mem­ory to The James Beard Foun­da­tion’s Women’s Lead­er­ship Pro­grams name as fol­lows:    Do­na­tion Link: https://​donate.​jamesbeard.​org/​give/​66854/#!/​donation/​checkout Donors should check the box “Ded­i­cate my do­na­tion in honor or in mem­ory of some­one” – Jeanne M Bauer. Al­ter­na­tively, checks can be mailed to: James Beard Foun­da­tion Attn: De­vel­op­ment 167 W. 12th St. New York, NY 10011 Please in­di­cate do­na­tion is for the Women’s Lead­er­ship Pro­grams in mem­ory of Jeanne M Bauer.

   Leo N. Neis, 83, of Cedar­burg passed away peace­fully on Wednes­day, Sept. 11, 2024, at Milan Es­tates As­sisted Liv­ing in Saukville with his beloved fam­ily gath­ered with him.   He was born in Fond du Lac on De­cem­ber 11, 1940, the son of An­thony and Hilda (nee Wag­ner) Neis and raised in Camp­bell­sport.   On Au­gust 23, 1963, Leo was united in mar­riage to Carol J. Ray­mond at St. Matthew’s Par­son­age in Camp­bell­sport.    Leo served his coun­try in the US Army from 1963 until 1965. He worked at Lowrance Com­pany for many years be­fore re­tir­ing.   Leo loved the out­doors, hunt­ing, and fish­ing. He en­joyed trav­el­ing the coun­try and Leo and Carol spent the last 30 years win­ter­ing in Puerto Val­larta, Mex­ico.   Leo was a great fan of the Brew­ers and Pack­ers. He al­ways en­joyed re­mod­el­ing pro­jects whether it was for him­self or his fam­ily and friends. Leo was al­ways the first to vol­un­teer if some­one needed help with any­thing.    Sur­vivors in­clude his wife of 61 years, Carol; son, Brent (Tori nee Theisen) Neis of East New­burg; grand­sons, Con­nor An­thony Neis and Hay­den Robert Neis, both of East New­burg; brother, Sylvester (Joan) Neis; nephews, Craig (Sarah) Neis and Corey Neis, all of Camp­bell­sport; other rel­a­tives and friends.   Leo was pre­ceded in death by his par­ents, An­thony and Hilda; grand­son, Tyson Neis; brother and sis­ter-in-law, Robert and Dee Neis; in-laws, Gor­don and Edna Ray­mond; and brother-in-law and sis­ter-in-law, Ken­neth and Irma Ray­mond.   A grave­side ser­vice with Mil­i­tary Hon­ors will be held on Fri­day, Sept. 27, at 12 p.m. at Union Ceme­tery, Camp­bell­sport, with Pas­tor Ash­ley of­fi­ci­at­ing.   The fam­ily ex­tends a spe­cial thank you to Dr. Kevin Goniu, and the nurses and staff of Milan Es­tates As­sisted Liv­ing and Allay Hos­pice for the care and con­cern shown Leo.   Twohig Fu­neral Home is as­sist­ing the fam­ily with on­line guest­book and con­do­lences at www.​two​higf​uner​als.​com.