Obituaries
Recent obituaries in Madison, WI
The obituaries in the Madison, WI Area reflect the region's diverse population, featuring individuals from a variety of ethnic, religious, and cultural backgrounds. Some were pioneers in their fields, while others dedicated their lives to community service or philanthropy. Their stories serve as a reminder of the richness and complexity Madison's history and identity.
Margaret B. Benisch
May 17, 2024
Sun Prairie / Columbus - Margaret Benisch, age 72, passed away peacefully on May 17, 2024, surrounded by family, after a long battle with diabetes and kidney disease.
Margaret was born on June 7, 1951, in Columbus. She went on to live in Falls River where she enjoyed spending time with family, friends, and caring for her cats: Ebony and Bella....
Rev. Nancy T. Heimer
May 16, 2024
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Reverend Nancy T. Heimer, was born March 27, 1931 to Lucille Osgood Townley-Tilson and W.H. Dermot Townley-Tilson in Winchester, Massachusetts. She died May 16, 2024 at home with her loving family.
New England and her family legacy were important to Nancy. As she aged, she often hearkened back to days in Winchester,...
Charlotte M. Scott
May 16, 2024
Charlotte Mary Scott, age 85, passed away on Thursday, May 16, 2024. She was born on April 12, 1939 in Madison, WI to Stanley and Mary (nee Stam) Gibson. She graduated from Sun Prairie High School and then business school.
On June 27, 1959 in Sun Prairie, she was married to the love of her life, Jackie Scott. He...
Connie Lee Dettloff
May 15, 2024
Connie Lee Dettloff (born Abrahamson), a resident of Madison, WI, passed away on May 15th, 2024 of natural causes.
Mrs. Dettloff was born on February 6th, 1934 in Sheboygan, Wisconsin the daughter of the late Leroy Abrahamson and Peggy Abrahamson (Liebold)
Connie attended Beloit College and graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison where she was a member of Kappa Delta. Connie...
Brian J. Staben
May 14, 2024
Brian J Staben, 68, of Baraboo, WI, passed away on May 14th, 2024 in Fitchburg, WI, due to complications with diabetes.
Brian was born on October 8, 1955, to Hans and Phyllis (Grebbert) in Clinton, IA. After graduating from Clinton High School in 1974, he followed in his dad’s footsteps and pursued a career at DuPont, Inc. He worked there for...
Lois G. Anderson
May 14, 2024
MADISON-Lois Gilbert Anderson, 97, of Madison, passed away on May 14, surrounded by family at Oakwood Village Prairie Ridge.
Lois was born on March 26, 1927, to David and Hazel Talbot in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated from Palatine High School in 1945 and pursued her passion for music at Northwestern University, where she majored in music education. At Northwestern, she met...
Gloria Benita Gutierrez Vidal de Terry
May 13, 2024
Gloria Benita Terry, age 76, of Madison, Wisconsin, passed away on May 13, 2024, at her home in Madison, Wisconsin. She was born on January 2, 1948 in Trujillo, Peru, the second daughter of Santiago Rubén Gutierrez and Juana Luisa Vidal. She married Paul W. Terry on Dec. 30, 1975, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Gloria’s early years were spent...
Lenore A. (Nelson) Wheat
May 12, 2024
Lenore A. (Nelson) Wheat
November 27, 1926 – May 12, 2024
Madison, WI / Rockford, IL / Alta, IA – Lenore passed at the age of 97 years, following a short stay at Agrace Hospice in Madison. During Lenore’s later years, she moved from her long-time Rockford home to live with daughters in Madison. While in Madison, Lenore attended Cross Plains Senior...
Patricia Ann Weinswig
May 12, 2024
Patricia Ann Weinswig, age 86 passed away on May 12, 2024
Pat was born to Alan and Bernice McLeod in Chicago on October 17, 1937. She grew up on the south side of Chicago in South Shore. After working part time as an apprentice in a neighborhood pharmacy during high school, she decided that she wanted to become a pharmacist. Pat...
Waltraud Margarete Holman
May 11, 2024
MADISON - Waltraud Margarete Hildegard Holman (“Traudie”), 97, passed away in Madison, Wisconsin, on May 11, 2024, in her own home, surrounded by family. She was born and lived in Pomerania, Germany, until age 18 when she fled by bicycle with her sister Ilse. After two years as refugees in Denmark, the sisters were reunited with the rest of the...
Sue Ellen Moore
May 11, 2024
Sue Ellen Moore, age 80, passed away on May 11, 2024. Sue, formerly of Peoria, Illinois, had lived in McFarland, Wisconsin for the past seven years. She was born in Peoria, Illinois on September 16, 1943 to Mildred (Higgs) and Harold Shreve, who preceded her in death. She was also preceded in death by her uncle Harold Higgs and her grandson...
Louise Irene Eastland
May 10, 2024
Louise Irene Eastland (Lyon), age 96, left this earthly realm, surrounded by family, on May 10, 2024 while living with her daughter Virginia and son-in-law Richard, in Cambridge, Wisconsin. She was lovingly cared for and lived heroically with Alzheimer's disease for the last 6 years of her impactful life. Louise’s doting daughter, Kathy, and her husband traveled routinely, along with her son, Mark, to provide respite care. Her...
Susan R. Goldstein
May 10, 2024
Susan (Sue) Ruth Goldstein, 84 of Madison, WI died Friday, May 10, 2024. Sue was born November 29, 1939, in New York City. She attended Hunter College in NYC, becoming a public school teacher for more than 20 years, teaching in New York City, Evansville, Madison and Appleton, WI and Chestertown, MD. In 1979 Sue returned to Madison and launched...
Carolyn Rae Griffith
May 10, 2024
Carolyn Rae Griffith
78
Westport/ Waunakee
Carolyn Rae Griffith of Westport/ Waunakee, age 78, died on May 10, 2024 at UW Hospital in Madison, surrounded by her family.
She was born on Sept. 7, 1945 to Harold and Lilas (Gunlaw) Klaas. She graduated from Fennimore High School in 1963 and moved to Madison where she worked various jobs until she landed at Middleton Farmers...
Kathryn A. "Kappy" Bredemus
May 9, 2024
Kathryn “Kappy” (Ek) Bredemus of Wauankee, WI earned her guardian angel wings at the wise age of 90 years young on May 9, 2024. The woman known for her story telling, was born in the quaint town of Shell Lake in northern Wisconsin to Walter and Anastasia Ek. She spent her youth with her younger siblings and life long friends...
Robert Leslie Kelly
May 9, 2024
On May 9, 2024, our Heavenly Father welcomed one of His earthly angels into His loving arms. Robert (Bob) passed away in the hospital two months after the acute onset of severe hypoxia caused by one of his heart medications.
He was born on January 30, 1935, in Ishpeming, Michigan. He was the oldest of two children born to Robert L....
Kim Nilsson
May 9, 2024
Kim G. Nilsson, died peacefully at the University of Wisconsin Hospital on May 9, after a long battle with metastatic prostate cancer. He was born in Helsinki, Finland in 1939, to Nils Nilsson and Rita. He came to Indiana University, Bloomington, as an undergraduate to study Russian in 1958. During that time, he worked as an interpreter for the State...
Dorothy Marsh
May 9, 2024
Stoughton- Dorothy Marsh, age 101, left on her final journey on May 9, 2024, following a life well lived.
In her words: “I was born March 25, 1923, in Minnesota (at home during a snowstorm) to Hjalmer and Anna (Matson) Peterson. I attended country school in Sebeka and graduated high school in Detroit Michigan. I did many jobs including office work,...
Virginia R. Cramer
May 8, 2024
MADISON – Ginny R. Cramer, age 84, passed away on May 8, 2024, in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. She was born to Gordon and Frances Cheeseman Albert on August 22, 1939, in Neenah, Wisconsin. She attended the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh where she met and married Harold Cramer on August 27, l 960, at Neenah, Wisconsin. They both graduated with high honors. She taught kindergarten in Madison and then in California. In 1963, she and...
Youri V. Plokhenko
May 8, 2024
Youri V. Plokhenko died on May 8, 2024 in Madison, Wisconsin after a decade-long battle with multiple myeloma. He was born in the Soviet Union and grew up in the region that would later become Ukraine.
Whether science informs art or art informs science, Youri was a Renaissance man to the core: he was broadly knowledgeable in science, math, the arts,...
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