Joan Verna Pape of Watertown, passed away peacefully on Monday, Feb. 13, 2023, at the age of 86.   Joan was born on March 24, 1936, the first born of Verna (Kohlman) and Edgar Rehse in Juneau. Her baptism and confirmation were at St. John’s Lutheran Church. She attended school and graduated from Juneau.   Before attending Whitewater College, she worked at Beaver Ready-Mix and Juneau Title and Abstract office.   On September 1,1962, she married Claude Pape at Fairview Lutheran Church in West Allis and they resided in New Berlin. Together they had three children.   She was employed by Briggs and Stratton for almost 20 years as a credit manager of the international division. She got to meet many interesting people from all over the world that sparked her interest in travel.   After Claude’s death in 1985, she moved to Mauston, to work for Best Power. While living in Mauston, she hosted two exchange students-one from Sweden and one from Germany.   When she retired from Best Power, she moved to Eagle River. She said her best job was at Christ Lutheran Church in Eagle River. About 10 years later, she made the 360 degree circle returning to Juneau and lived on Lake Sinissippi, which is near Juneau and again joined St. John’s Church. Her next move was to Ashippun, where she lived for another 10 years.   Her children and grandchildren will fondly remember playing card and board games with her, as will her many friends from around the surrounding communities. She golfed and early in life was a “serious” bowler. Watching her grandchildren play sports was a great pastime, as well as marking score for the Horicon baseball team. She volunteered at the Bread Basket, a food pantry, in Ashippun. Joan had a big heart for animals, especially labrador retrievers and other breeds of dogs.   Joan is survived by her children, Cindy Kessenich of New Berlin, Terri Ristow (Brian) of Lindstrom, MN, and Daniel (June) of Dousman; six grandchildren, Sam Kessenich (Samantha Jennings), Alicia Skoog (Tony), Kelsey Ristow, Erica Ristow, Brandon Pape (Lydia), and Breanna Pape; great-grandchildren, Kylie, Barrett, and Reese Skoog. She is also survived by her sister, Bonnie Gahwiler (Joe) and many other relatives and friends.   In addition to her parents, Joan was preceded in death by her loving husband, Claude (Bud).   A Christian funeral service will be held on Friday, April 14, at 3 p.m. at Pagenkopf Funeral Home (NEW LOCATION: 2228 N. Silver Maple Lane, Oconomowoc, WI 53066). Visitation will take place at the funeral home one hour prior to the service. A reception with light appetizers will immediately follow the service. A private burial will take place on Monday, April 17.   We would like to thank Dr. Agnew from Aurora Hospital for the many years of care she provided mom and the thoughtfulness that she has shown to our family.   Memorials if desired can be given to St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 3328 County Rd O, Ixonia, WI 53036.Pagenkopf Funeral Home in Oconomowoc is serving the family.

   Verona Lu­cille Sterr passed away peace­fully at Hope Health in Lomira on Mon­day, Feb. 13, 2023, with her fam­ily by her side.   Verona Lu­cille was born April 18, 1924, in the Town­ship of Wayne, Wash­ing­ton County, at the home of her par­ents, George and Es­ther (Schw­ertz) Pam­perin on Good Fri­day. She was bap­tized on May 4, 1924, and con­firmed, in the Ger­man lan­guage, on March 21,1937, at Zion Evan­gel­i­cal Lutheran Church, Town of Wayne.    Verona was a mem­ber of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Brownsville. She had a strong faith.    She went to Eng­lish grade school in the coun­try from Sep­tem­ber to the end of April. Then Ger­man school from May 1 until July. She learned bible sto­ries, hymns and cat­e­chism in Ger­man and Eng­lish, while help­ing her dad and mother on the farm, dri­ving horses with the hay wagon, plant­ing beets and car­ry­ing milk pails every day.    After com­plet­ing grade school, there was no fur­ther ed­u­ca­tion avail­able in the area un­less she would room and board in the city. She de­cided to clean houses. Later worked at Amity Leather fac­tory in West Bend. Next, she boarded with a fam­ily mem­ber and worked at Mayville Can­ning Fac­tory and Mayville Shoe Fac­tory.    Verona mar­ried Don­ald Sterr, a WWII vet­eran, on Au­gust 28, 1946, at Zion Lutheran Church in the Town Wayne. The Lord blessed their mar­riage with three chil­dren.    Verona had many won­der­ful gifts from the Lord that she shared with many peo­ple through­out the years. She was a mem­ber of the church ladies aid, Sun­day school teacher, 4-H leader, and vol­un­teered 47 years at Bethesda Thrift Store. Verona was the head of the book de­part­ment and loved to read books; she also loved do word cir­cles. She won awards in cook­ing bake-offs and sewing con­tests. Verona wrote two cook­books on her fa­vorite fam­ily recipes. She stud­ied fam­ily ge­neal­ogy and co-au­thored The Sterr Fam­ily Newslet­ter. Verona also vol­un­teered to trans­late Ger­man let­ters and doc­u­ments to Eng­lish for any­one who needed it. She loved flow­ers, which she planted around her house. She trav­eled to Ger­many, Switzer­land, Aus­tria, Hud­son Bay, Mex­ico and many trips in the U.S. Pink was her fa­vorite color.    Verona and her hus­band, Don­nie, op­er­ated a dairy farm in Mayville. Verona was a hard-worker and al­ways helped in any way that she could. She drove trac­tor dur­ing har­vest sea­son and milked the cows, while lend­ing a hand in tak­ing care of her grand­sons. She also had her own chicken and egg busi­ness in which she had 500 chick­ens and fur­nished eggs for the Mayville School lunch pro­gram, three gro­cery stores in Mayville, and a bak­ery in Mil­wau­kee. She lived in her farm­house until No­vem­ber 29, 2022, when she moved to Hope Se­nior Liv­ing in Lomira.   Verona is sur­vived by her two chil­dren, Eu­nice Jun­gen­berg (Ron Clarin) and Jerome (Karen) Sterr, both of Mayville; her four grand­sons, Jason (Lori) Sterr, Jesse Sterr, Tim Sterr, and Lucas (Lacy) Sterr; four great-grand­chil­dren, Lyla, Leana, Leo, and Riley Sterr; one sis­ter, Adela Pamerin; and a brother-in-law, David (Sandy) Sterr. Verona is fur­ther sur­vived by nieces, nephews, other rel­a­tives, and friends.    Verona was pre­ceded in death by her par­ents, George and Es­ther Pam­perin; her hus­band, Don­ald Sterr; her son, Allen; brother, Arthur Pam­perin; sis­ter, Lu­cille Czoschke; sis­ter-in-laws, Diana Pam­perin, Betty Nickel, and Dorothy Sterr; also, broth­ers in-law, Ar­mond Sterr, Ar­mond Czoschke, and Melvin Nickel; three nephews, Clyde Czoschke, Larry Nickel, And Brian Pam­perin.   A fu­neral ser­vice for Verona will be held on Sat­ur­day, Feb.18, at 1 p.m. at St Paul’s Lutheran Church in Brownsville with Rev. William Carter of­fi­ci­at­ing. Vis­i­ta­tion for Verona will be at church on Sat­ur­day, Feb. 18, from 11 a.m. until the time of ser­vice at 1 p.m. In­ter­ment will fol­low the ser­vice at St. Luke’s Ceme­tery in Knowles.   Verona’s fam­ily would like to thank the staff at Hope Se­nior Liv­ing in Lomira for the care and com­pas­sion they showed Verona and her fam­ily dur­ing her time there.   Verona’s con­fir­ma­tion text, Psalm 37:4 “De­light your­self in the Lord and he will give you the de­sires of your heart.”   Koepsell Fu­neral Home in Mayville is car­ing for the fam­ily. www.​Koepsellfh.​com

   Ruthanne C. Feucht, 77, of rural Mayville, passed away peace­fully on Wednes­day, Feb. 8, 2023, at St. Agnes Hos­pi­tal in Fond du Lac with her fam­ily at her side.    Ruthanne was born the daugh­ter of Math­ias and An­ge­line (Beck) Schlad­weiler on Sep­tem­ber 29, 1945. She was a 1963 grad­u­ate of Ke­waskum High School.   Ruthanne was united in mar­riage to Jerome Feucht on May 7, 1966, at St. Michael’s Catholic Parish in Ke­waskum.   After many years of farm­ing, Ruthanne held var­i­ous ad­min­is­tra­tion roles in­clud­ing 17 great years at Mar­ian Uni­ver­sity in Fond du Lac in the Nurs­ing de­part­ment. Most re­cently, Ruthanne worked at Heier In­sur­ance in Beaver Dam.   She was a faith­ful mem­ber of St. Mary Catholic Church in Mayville.   In her spare time, Ruthanne en­joyed quilt­ing, sewing, gar­den­ing, bak­ing, and cook­ing. She was well known for her green thumb and her beau­ti­ful flow­ers. Ruthanne also showed her flow­ers, bak­ing and sewing pro­jects at the Dodge Co. Fair. Many peo­ple were re­cip­i­ents of Ruthanne’s cook­ing, bak­ing and over­all kind­ness, in­clud­ing her many kind and en­cour­ag­ing posts on Face­book.    Ruthanne is sur­vived by her hus­band, Jerome of Mayville; her chil­dren, Jerome Jr. (Becky) Feucht of Mayville, Paul ‘Stubby’ (Candy) Feucht of Mayville, Fred Feucht of Bur­nett, Ed (Shel­ley) Feucht of Lomira, Matt (spe­cial friend April) Feucht of Mayville, Anne Marie (Lee) Pe­ter­son of Lake Mills, Greg (Michelle) Feucht of Fond du Lac, and Mary (Richard) Gun­drum of Hart­ford; her grand­chil­dren, David, Evan, De­r­ick (Sarah), Josh (Desi), Tyler (Lind­say), Brent, Grace, Sam, Char­lie, Jack, Austin, and Alex; her great-grand­chil­dren, Milly, Riley, Jay­den, and Au­drey; her sis­ter, Rita Pe­ters of West Bend; her sis­ters-in-law, Car­o­line Ster­nat and Char­lotte Feucht; her broth­ers-in-law, Nor­bert (Louise) Feucht, Clem (Elaine) Feucht, Clarence (Sharon) Feucht; fur­ther sur­vived by nieces, nephews, other rel­a­tives and many friends.   She was pre­ceded in death by her par­ents; sis­ter, Helen Doll; and broth­ers-in-law, Leroy Doll, Nor­bert ‘Nubby’ Ster­nat, Fran­cis Pe­ters, John (Char­lene) Feucht, and Louis Feucht (in in­fancy).   A Mass of Chris­t­ian Bur­ial took place on Wednes­day, Feb­. 15, at 11 a.m. at St. Mary Catholic Church in Mayville with the Rev. Fr. Joe Do­minic and Rev. Fr. Tom Bier­sack pre­sid­ing. A vis­i­ta­tion was held on Tues­day, Feb. 14, from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Koepsell Fu­neral Home in Mayville and again on Wednes­day, Feb. 15, from 10 a.m. until the time of the ser­vice at 11 a.m. at the church in Mayville. In­ter­ment took place at St. Mary Ceme­tery in Mayville.   The fam­ily would like to thank the staff at St. Agnes/SSM Health Can­cer Cen­ter and Hos­pi­tal of Fond du Lac for their kind­ness, com­pas­sion and lov­ing care.    Memo­ri­als in mem­ory of Ruthanne may be di­rected to Mar­ian Uni­ver­sity in Fond du Lac, St. Lawrence Sem­i­nary in Mt. Cal­vary or a char­ity of your choos­ing.    Koepsell Fu­neral Home in Mayville is serv­ing the fam­ily. www.​KoepsellFH.​com

   Marcella M. Jaeger, 101, formerly of Brownsville, passed away peacefully on Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023, at Harbor Haven Health & Rehabilitation in Fond du Lac, where she resided since January of 2020.    She was born May 6, 1921, the daughter of Emil and Frieda (Geschke) Schreier of Theresa. Marcella attended Sunny Slope School in rural Lomira. Marcella married Paul P. Jaeger on May 18, 1940, at St. John’s Rectory in Byron.    Marcella worked with her husband on the family purebred Chester White hog and Holstein dairy farm, while raising their children.   Marcella will be fondly remembered for the enjoyment she received from playing cards, dancing to polka music, and her love of flowers. Marcella also enjoyed taking flowers and house plants to the county fair. She was active in the Fond du Lac County 4-H program and was a house plant and flower leader for the South Byron 4-H Club for many years.   She was a member of St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, Oakfield, since her marriage in 1940. Marcella loved many things that started with the letter “P”: Paul, Pink, Pigs, Polkas and Peach Schnapps! Marcella was an only child; but made up for it by having a big family of her own!   Survivors include her two sons, Rudy (Agnes) Jaeger of Brownsville, and John (Joan) Jaeger of Brownsville; three daughters, Patricia Uttendorfer of Oakfield, Sandy Briese of Oshkosh, and Susan Jaeger of Fond du Lac. She is also survived by 16 grandchildren, Debra (Eric) Fessler, Daryl (Chrissann) Jaeger, Mark Jaeger, Renee (Scott) Schmitz, Randy (special friend, Sara Michels) Jaeger, Jeffrey (Judy) Jaeger, Joel (Tara) Jaeger, Brian Jaeger, Paul (Sue) Uttendorfer, Rhonda (Ron) Petersen, Louis (Kristin) Uttendorfer, Joe (Tina) Uttendorfer, Michael (Heidi) Jaeger, Rebecca (Craig) Scherer, Lisa (Joe) Failla, and Beth (Mike) Miller. She is further survived by 27 great-grandchildren, three great-great-grandchildren, nephews, nieces, and cousins.   Marcella was preceded in death by her parents; her spouse in 1987; one son, Richard Jaeger; three sons-in-law, James Uttendorfer, Ronald Briese, and James Schraven; and one granddaughter, Mary Beth Tatham. She is further preceded in death by two brothers-in-laws, Clarence “Pat” (Ottilia "Tillie") Jaeger and Kenneth (Evelyn) Jaeger and special friend, Adolph Frederick, whom she met through polka dancing.   A Funeral Service and Burial has taken place for Marcella.    Marcella’s family would like to extend a heartfelt thank-you to the entire Harbor Haven team, SSM Health Hospice caregivers and SSM Adult Day Services for their dedicated love, care and compassion extended to Marcella.    Myrhum-Patten Funeral & Cremation Service has been entrusted with Marcella’s arrangements. Additional information and guest book can be found at www.myrhum-patten.com.