Wisconsin State Journal Local News

MONONA - Ruth Elaine Marie Kluge, age 82, passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on Sunday, July 17, 2016, surrounded by her loving family. She was born on Thursday, Aug. 24, 1933, on a farm west of Fort Atkinson, the daughter…

SUN PRAIRIE - Elizabeth E. "Betty" Lubinsky, age 78, passed away on Wednesday, July 20, 2016, at her home in Sun Prairie. She was born Aug. 29, 1937, in Madison, to Melvin and Claire (Coffey) Hauge. She married Richard Lubinsky…

BELOIT - Julia Ellen "Judy" (Crozier) McCleary died at age 96, at North Pointe Terrace, Roscoe, Ill., surrounded by her family on Saturday, July 16, 2016.

STOUGHTON - William "Bill Short" Kiss, age 80, passed away peacefully at the Nazareth Health and Rehabilitation Center on Monday, July 4, 2016, with family at his side. He had struggled with Alzheimer's for several years, but it was metastatic…

PEORIA, Ariz. / SUN CITY, Ariz. - Alice Marie (Keisler) Strayer, age 94, was born on Jan. 19, 1922, to Joseph and Almeda Keisler in Prairie View, Ill. She passed into eternity on March 22, 2016.

MADISON - Patrick "Putzi" Raimondo, age 83, passed away peacefully on Monday, July 18, 2016, at home with wife, Janice, and granddaughter, Niki, by his side.

MADISON - Berwyn "Buzz" Braden, age 88, passed away on Saturday, July 23, 2016. A full obituary will appear at a later date.

PLATTEVILLE - Wendell Rice, age 85, of Platteville, passed away peacefully at home on July 20, 2016, while undergoing treatment for Glioblastoma multiforme of brain cancer. Celebration of life will be 10 a.m. on Saturday, July 30, 2016, at the…

MCFARLAND / MADISON - Arlene Peterson, of McFarland and Madison, passed away on Sunday, July 17, 2016, at Stoughton Hospital. She was born on Dec. 28, 1934, at home in Eau Claire, the daughter of John and Helen (Mehagan) Colombe.

MIDDLETON - Norman Bloom, age 99, passed away on Thursday, July 21, 2016. Norman and his identical twin brother were born in Oakland, Calif., on July 8, 1917. Before the babies were one year of age the family moved to…

MADISON / SOUTHBURY, Conn. - Kendall Anthony "Tony" Niglis of Madison, Wis., and Southbury, Conn., died at home of cardiac arrest on March 6, 2016. He was 69 years old. Celebration of life will be held July 30, 2016, in…

MINERAL POINT - Bonnie Jean Goninen, age 91, of Mineral Point, passed away on Thursday, July 21, 2016.

BEAVER DAM - John Page Patterson, age 78, of Beaver Dam, Wis., passed away on Saturday, July 2, 2016, at St. Mary's Care Center in Madison. John requested that no funeral services be held. Burial will be at Mount Hope…

MADISON - Bill Swenson passed away on Saturday, July 16, 2016, at his home in Madison following a brief illness. He was 64 years old.

LODI / PORTAGE - On a bright sunny Sunday morning, July 17, 2016, Delores passed on peacefully to eternal life at Agrace HospiceCare in Madison. Delores was born to Nicholas and Louise (Hochstein) Seiler on April 22, 1940. She graduated…

WAUNAKEE / MADISON - Nancy L. (Church) Thompson, age 68, passed away on Tuesday, July 19, 2016, at Agrace HospiceCare in Fitchburg. She was born on Oct. 23, 1947, in Madison, the daughter of Walter E. Church and Lorraine "Pauline"Kemmer.

MONONA - Kathryn Irene Warren, age 54, passed away unexpectedly due to medical complications on Thursday, July 21, 2016, at St. Mary's Hospital in Madison. She was born on March 15, 1962, in Elmhurst, Ill., the daughter of Jeanette (Anderson)…

MADISON - Daniel Ronald Winkel, age 65, passed away peacefully at St. Mary's Care Center in Madison, on Tuesday, July 5, 2016. He was born in Sheboygan, Wis., on Aug. 4, 1950, to Henry J. and Albertine S. (Gerhartz) Winkel.

This is Jerika Bolen's very own prom. She's calling it her "last dance." And it is.

BLACK EARTH -– Bret Schultz recalls it all coming together for him: his fly rod, and the brown trout.