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FRIENDSHIP / CLINTON - Mary Elizabeth (Prohaska) Haines, resident of Friendship, and Clinton, went home to be with our Lord on Sunday, April 24, 2016, at Agrace Hospice Center after a long illness. Mary was born on April 17, 1938,…

DEFOREST - Don, age 62, was born May 5, 1953, in Madison, Wis. He graduated from Madison East Senior High School in 1971. Don passed away from complications of prostate cancer on April 26, 2016.

MINNEAPOLIS - Mathilda Vandenbergh Schwalbach, age 98, retired faculty member of UW's School of Human Ecology, passed away Oct. 17, 2015. As wife of and collaborator with James A. Schwalbach, she was known for textile screen printing and expertise in…

MADISON - David C. Dodge, age 58, of Madison, Wis., passed away Friday, April 22, 2016, as the result of a motorcycle accident. He was born on June 12, 1957, in Madison, the son of Ronald E. and Dorothy L.…

MADISON - Patricia Jean "Pat" (McGraw) Nofzinger, age 85, passed away on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2016. She was born on Aug. 25, 1930, in Ottumwa, Iowa, to Clifford and Lorene (Pixley) McGraw.

DENVER, Colo. / DEFOREST - Donald W. Leonard, age 86, of Denver, Colo., formerly of DeForest, Wis., died at his home on April 8, 2016, after a very lengthy illness. He was born in Madison, Wis., on Aug. 30, 1929,…

SUN PRAIRIE - Jerome Donald Hargraves, age 88, passed away peacefully at home on Sunday, April 24, 2016. He was born in Oshkosh on June 12, 1927, the son of William and Viola (Geisler) Hargraves.

MADISON - Jeanette Davis Jenkins, age 93, of Madison (formerly of Lubbock, Texas), died on Tuesday, April 26, 2016, at Heritage Monona Assisted Living/Memory Care. She was born on Jan. 7, 1923, in Los Angeles. Her mother died when Jeanette…

MINERAL POINT - Gladys passed away Dec. 16, 2015, at at the age of 102, at Upland Hills Hospice Care, Dodgeville, Wis.

OSHKOSH - Donald Edward Erickson, surrounded by his family, peacefully passed away at his home Thursday, April 28, 2016. Don was born Sept. 15, 1929, in Melrose, Wis., son of Henry Olaf and Rachel Catherine Erickson. His family moved to…

MADISON - Mary Orvis, age 80, of Madison, passed away on Wednesday, April 27, 2016. She was born on April 14, 1936, in Madison, the daughter of Edward Finn and Helen Dunn. She married Alfred "Bud" Orvis on Feb. 4,…

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