Joseph R. Meyer, age 38, of Horicon, passed away unexpectedly on Friday, September 16, 2022, at Waupun Hospital in Waupun.   Joseph was born the son of George ‘Mike’ and Elaine (nee Minerva) Meyer on July 14, 1984, in Des Plaines, IL.    He was an avid fan of the Chicago Cubs, Blackhawks, and Bears. He loved to play street hockey with his father, brother, and friends. Joe was also an avid fan of WWE wrestling and attended many WWE events.   Joe loved life and lived it well. He was a person who always showed love and care to others and helped those less fortunate. He will be dearly missed.   Joe is survived by his loving parents, George and Elaine of Horicon; and his siblings, Michael (Emily) Meyer of Beaver Dam and Mary (fiancé’ Adam Lindert) Meyer of Beaver Dam. Beloved Godfather of Alaina Lindert and Elliot Selvaggio. He is further survived by other relatives and many friends.   He was preceded in death by his grandparents.   A funeral service for Joseph will take place on Monday, September 26, 2022, at 11 a.m. at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Horicon with the Rev. Fr. Justin Lopina presiding. A visitation will be held on Monday, September 26, from 9-11 a.m. at the church in Horicon. A luncheon will follow the service.   Memorials in loving memory of Joe may be directed to the American Diabetes Association and Baggin’ for a Cure.   Koepsell Funeral Home in Horicon is serving the family. www.KoepsellFH.com

11/20/1954-8/27/2022   Sue unexpectedly passed away August 27, 2022, at her home in Theresa. She had MS for several decades; in recent months was also being tested for Lupus. Sue was 67 years old.   She was predeceased by her mother, Helen; her father, Eugene; younger brother, Tommy; dear friend, Waneta LeHoullier (whom she was loving caregiver to); and husband, Denis Guzzetta.   She is survived by her brother, Eugene Michael; dearest friends, Terriann Riebe Beno and Julie (Height) Lovestock.   Sue was a 1972 graduate of Nicolet high school (set records in athletics), attended the University of WI- LaCrosse until she returned home as caregiver throughout her mother’s battle with cancer. Sue was an incredible artist in multi mediums, loved gardening/created beautiful areas where she lived. She was a generous, kind neighbor, kindred spirit/friend who so appreciated kindness, thoughtfulness and respect. Her smile and laugh were contagious; her good spirits and spontaneity lifted others; her wisdom and spirituality often quite profound and comforting.See also cremationskm.com

   Joy Finke, 75, of Hori­con, met her Lord and Sav­ior on Sep­tem­ber 17, 2022.    Joy was born in Colum­bus, to Her­bert and Leone (Schin­del) Tesch on June 30, 1947.   She was a 1965 grad­u­ate of Hori­con High School.   Joy mar­ried Roland Finke on June 12, 1965, in Hori­con, at St. Stephen Lutheran Church.    Joy was a sec­re­tary at St. Stephen Lutheran Church for many years. Joy had a strong faith and was a faith­ful ser­vant of God. She shared this with all who knew her as her faith and fam­ily was some­thing she cher­ished and was proud of.    Joy was an avid col­lec­tor of an­gels. Any­one who knew Joy would say she truly was an angel on earth. The fam­ily in­vites you to take an angel of your choice as a spe­cial re­minder of Joy upon leav­ing the ser­vice.   Joy is sur­vived by her lov­ing hus­band, Roland; sons, Richard (Amy) Finke and Bruce (Cindy) Finke; and grand­chil­dren, Alexan­der, Brett, and Madi­son Finke. She is fur­ther sur­vived by her in-laws, Bill Grams, Elaine Tesch, Mar­i­lyn Finke, Betty Miller, Leon (Marge) Finke, Emily (Roy) Rass­mann, Don (Donna) Finke, Judi (Ron) Bas­t­ian, Bonita (Wally) Za­s­trow, and Loris (Jerry) Schae­fer, as well as many nieces, nephews, other rel­a­tives, and many friends.    A fu­neral ser­vice for Joy took place on Wednes­day, Sept. 21, at 11 a.m. at St. Stephen’s Lutheran Church in Hori­con, with Rev. Daniel See­hafer of­fi­ci­at­ing. Vis­i­ta­tion was from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at church. In­urn­ment will take place at Oak Hill Ceme­tery in Hori­con at a later date.    The fam­ily would like to ex­tend a sin­cere thank you to the staff at Marsh­field Med­ical Cen­ter- Beaver Dam for the care they pro­vided to Joy. A heart-felt thank you goes out to Rol­lie and Joy’s spe­cial neigh­bors and friends, Michael and Bon­nie, Mike and Sandy, and Ilene. Your sup­port and love dur­ing this dif­fi­cult time has meant so much and will never be for­got­ten.    Memo­ri­als in honor of Joy may be di­rected to St. Stephen Lutheran Church in Hori­con.    Koepsell Fu­neral Home in Mayville is car­ing for the fam­ily. www.​koepsellfh.​com

   It is with great sadness that the family of Caterina (Braino) Persha announce her passing on September 10, 2022, at the age of 95.   Rina was born to Antonio and Eufemia Braino on April 11, 1927, in Rovinj, Italy; which is now present day Croatia . She was one of eight children.   Rina met and later married her husband, John, in Trieste, Italy, on September 23,1950. Soon after their wedding, they moved to Mayville, where together they started a family.    Rina loved spending time in her garden and sharing her produce with friends and neighbors. She was an amazing cook and always brought people together through her cooking and baking. Rina loved music and dancing and could dance a “mean” Polka.   Rina is survived by her two loving sons, Tony (Mary K.) and Nick (Diane) Persha. She was a beloved Grandma to Eric Persha, Adam Persha, John Persha, Nicole Persha, Megan Hanni and their spouses. Rina was great-grandma to 12 great-grandchildren.   Rina was preceded in death by her parents and her husband, John.    A Mass of Christian Burial for Rina will be held on Saturday, Sept. 24, at 10:30 a.m. at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Mayville with Rev. Father Joe Dominic presiding. Visitation will be at the church from 9:30 to10:30 a.m. with interment at St. Mary’s Catholic Cemetery in Mayville following the service.    The family would like to extend their deepest appreciation and thanks to the staff at Clearview Nursing Home in Juneau, for their compassion, care, and help given to Rina.    Koepsell Funeral Home is Mayville is serving the family. www. Koepsellfh.com

   Richard “Dick” Krutke, 82, of Mayville, passed away on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022, at St. Agnes Hospital in Fond du Lac.   Dick was born the son of Anthony and Lurlyne (Gates) Krutke on January 27, 1940, in Reedsburg.   He was a 1958 Mayville High School graduate and member of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Mayville.   Dick married his high school sweetheart, Beverly Schaefer, on May 11, 1963, in Neenah.   Dick proudly served his country as a Marine in the United States Marine Corp from 1958 to 1962. He was stationed in California and Alaska.   After this, Dick worked for Metalcraft of Mayville for 43 years and retired in 2005. He was Captain of the Mayville Fire Department for 25 years. Dick was named the Citizen of the Year in 2010. He also was an usher at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, a School Crossing Guard, and worked at the Mayville News.   Dick loved people and was just “the nicest guy.” He would do anything to help you and would give you the shirt off his back. He loved to travel, especially to see his children. His children and grandchildren meant the world to him, and he loved spending time with them. He also looked forward to and enjoyed going on many special trips to Mexico with Bev, family, and friends. Dick loved playing golf and rooting for the Wisconsin Badgers.   Dick is survived by his loving wife, Bev; his children, Craig (Lorna) Krutke, Julie (Rob) Allison, and Jodi (Clif) Kreuscher; grandchildren, Hannah Allison, John Allison, Katie Krutke, and Jacob Krutke; and sister-in-law: Joyce Tuchel. He is further survived by other relatives and many friends.   Dick was preceded in death by his parents; and brothers, Tom Krutke and David Krutke.   A memorial service for Dick will be held at the Koepsell Funeral Home in Mayville on Thursday, Sept. 15, at 4 p.m. with Rev. Bruce Engebretson officiating. Visitation will be at the funeral home on September 15 from 2 to 4 p.m. Military Honors will be conducted by the Mayville American Legion Post #69 following the service at the Funeral Home. A private family inurnment will take place at St. Paul’s Cemetery in Mayville.

   Linda S. Ko­vace­vich (nee Ih­len­feld) beloved mother, wife and daugh­ter, was called home to eter­nal life, age 52, on Tues­day, Sept. 6, 2022, at her home in Theresa, with her fam­ily by her side after a 19-year bat­tle against can­cer.   Linda was born to Mary (nee Gun­drum) and Robert Ih­len­feld in West Bend, on Jan­u­ary 22, 1970.   She grad­u­ated from Slinger High School, class of 1988, and wed her high school sweet­heart, Tim­o­thy D. Ko­vace­vich, at Res­ur­rec­tion Catholic Church in Al­len­ton on Au­gust 11, 1990. To­gether they raised three beau­ti­ful chil­dren.   Linda has gone be­fore her hus­band Tim; son, Jacob (Nolyn Brun­ner) Ko­vace­vich; daugh­ter, Lena (Jor­dan) Kempfer; son, Eric (Hai­ley) Ko­vace­vich; par­ents, Bob and Mary Ih­le­feld; brother, Ken (Karly) Ih­len­feld; brother, Steve (Pam) Ih­len­feld; brother-in-law, Jim El­len­becker; fa­ther-in-law, Doug (Judy) Ko­vace­vich; sis­ter-in-law, Mary (Craig) Short­land; and sis­ter-in-law, Lanae (nee Lan­don) Ko­vace­vich. She is fur­ther sur­vived by nieces, nephews, other spe­cial rel­a­tives and many trea­sured friends.    She was pre­ceded in death by her sis­ter, Ju­dith M. El­len­becker; mother-in-law, Mar­garet (nee Novak) Ko­vace­vich; brother-in-law, Rick Berger; and brother-in-law, Paul Ko­vace­vich.   She at­tended MATC where she re­ceived a de­gree in in­te­rior de­sign. In 1991, Linda and hus­band Tim opened Tim­lin's Fur­ni­ture to­gether in Hart­ford where it is still fam­ily op­er­ated after 31 years.   Above all, Linda’s heart was on fire for oth­ers, and she in­spired all who found their way into her life. She worked du­ti­fully through Com­pas­sion In­ter­na­tional to sup­port many chil­dren in need - fre­quently writ­ing to spon­sored chil­dren and even trav­el­ing to visit the mis­sion in El Sal­vador with her daugh­ter, Lena, in 2018. Fur­ther, Linda was a pas­sion­ate mother and rais­ing her three chil­dren was the great­est joy of her life.    Through stead­fast faith, she was ex­ceed­ingly pa­tient and led us all coura­geously through the count­less tri­als set be­fore her. As she con­sid­ered treat­ment op­tions for her lat­est di­ag­no­sis, her re­sponse re­flected the grace she car­ried through­out her en­tire life, “ei­ther way, I win.”   Thank you to the staff of Froedtert Med­ical Col­lege for the many price­less years that you gave us back with Linda. A spe­cial thanks to Linda's neu­rol­o­gist and on­col­o­gist for the end­less sup­port and con­sul­ta­tion through the many dif­fi­cult de­ci­sions we had to make.   A Memo­r­ial Ser­vice cel­e­brat­ing Linda’s life was held Wednes­day, Sept. 14, at North­brook Church, 4014 High­way 167 W, in Rich­field. Linda was laid to rest at Sa­cred Heart Ceme­tery in Al­len­ton on Thurs­day, Sept. 15.    In lieu of flow­ers, the fam­ily would re­quest that you help to con­tinue Linda’s hard work with Com­pas­sion In­ter­na­tional by spon­sor­ing a child, sup­port­ing their cause, or do­nat­ing to an­other Chris­t­ian char­ity.    The Shi­mon Fu­neral Home is serv­ing the fam­ily. Con­do­lences and trib­utes may be shared: www.​shi​monf​uner​alho​me.​com

   Lloyd A. “Kicker” Wa­gener passed away on Sep­tem­ber 4, 2022 in his home. He was 93.   Lloyd was born Oc­to­ber 20, 1928, in Hori­con to Arthur and Mary Wa­gener, join­ing two sis­ters, Pearl and Alice and one brother, Ray­mond.   Lloyd at­tended Hori­con Pub­lic School and was a 1946 grad­u­ate. One of his proud­est mo­ments was when he and his bas­ket­ball team­mates won the Lit­tle Ten Bas­ket­ball Cham­pi­onship in 1944-45. Lloyd was very ac­tive in sports at Hori­con High School: all four years par­tic­i­pat­ing in foot­ball, bas­ket­ball, and track, and base­ball three years.    After grad­u­a­tion Lloyd worked at John Deere until he was called to serve his coun­try in 1951 in U.S. Army in the 2nd Ar­mored Di­vi­sion called the ‘Hell on Wheels’ Di­vi­sion sta­tioned in Ger­many.    Lloyd and Ber­nice Schwartz were mar­ried in Hori­con on Jan­u­ary 24, 1953.    Lloyd was proud to live and work in Hori­con, for John Deere Hori­con Works, Stok­ley Van Camp and the City of Hori­con De­part­ment Pub­lic Works.   In 1956 Lloyd’s in­ter­est in com­mu­nity ser­vice for his home­town began. He served the City of Hori­con as a mem­ber of the Hori­con Fire De­part­ment, the Hori­con School Board and the Rock River Hills Golf Course Board of Di­rec­tors.    After his re­tire­ment Lloyd served the City of Hori­con as third dis­trict al­der­man, then as mayor. He also served on the Oak Hill Ceme­tery Board of Trustees until the time of his death.   Lloyd was very ac­tive ad­vo­cat­ing for vet­er­ans through the Amer­i­can Le­gion, hav­ing served many lead­er­ship roles on the local, dis­trict and state level even­tu­ally being elected as the com­man­der of the Wis­con­sin Amer­i­can Le­gion. Lloyd went on to con­tinue his ad­vo­cacy for nearly 20 years on a na­tional level, and an ac­tive board mem­ber on the Le­gion-spon­sored Bad­ger Boys State for nearly 30 years. He was also a mem­ber of the Vet­er­ans of For­eign Wars, 40/8, and the I.O.O.F. bet­ter known as the Odd Fel­lows.    As busy as Lloyd was, he found time to enjoy bowl­ing, fish­ing, and hunt­ing with his fa­ther Art, his uncle Del, son Ed­ward, brother-in-law Glen Muen­chow, and friend Norb Key.    Sur­vivors in­clude his chil­dren, Ellen Sun­der­land of Hori­con, Faith (Don) Klostre­ich of Yuma, AZ, Linda Wa­gener of Madi­son, and Ed­ward (Vicki) Wa­gener of Cam­bridge; grand­chil­dren, Jill (Jaeme­son), Kai­ley, Dharma, Traci (Dar­rell), Holli, Kelli, Brian (Chelsea); great-grand­chil­dren, Jay, Tyler, Trevor, Amanda, Justin, Whit­ney, Jor­dan, Bray­den, Levi, Kiley; great-great-grand­chil­dren, Alese, Bella, Eliza, Birdie, Cata­laya, Je­seth, Yaya; and many nieces and nephews.   Lloyd was pre­ceded in death by his wife, Ber­nice, who passed away on No­vem­ber 17, 2017. They were mar­ried for 69 years. He was also pre­ceded in death by his par­ents, Arthur and Mary Wa­gener; two sis­ters, Pearl Young, Alice Wa­gener; one brother, Ray­mond Wa­gener; brother-in-law, Rus­sell Young; sis­ter-in-law, Lu­cille Wa­gener; and son-in-law, Stephen Sun­der­land.    A cel­e­bra­tion of life will be held at Zion Lutheran Church Hori­con on Lloyd’s birth­day, Thurs­day, Oct. 20, at 12 p.m. with the Rev. Daniel Vojta of­fi­ci­at­ing. Vis­i­ta­tion will be held on Thurs­day, Oct. 20, from 10 a.m. until the time of the ser­vice at 12 p.m. In­urn­ment will take place at Oak Hill Ceme­tery, Hori­con with mil­i­tary hon­ors pro­vided by the Hori­con Amer­i­can Le­gion Post #157 and the Army Honor Guard.   In lieu of flow­ers, memo­ri­als may be made to Zion Lutheran Church Hori­con or Hori­con Amer­i­can Le­gion Post 157 build­ing fund.    Spe­cial thanks to Home In­stead and Hill­side Hos­pice care­givers for their car­ing and sup­port of Kicker and his fam­ily.    Koepsell Fu­neral Home in Hori­con is serv­ing the fam­ily. www.​KoepsellFH.​com

   Sherri Lynn Clark (nee Krueger), 52, of Mayville, was called home to her Lord and Savior on Friday, Aug. 26, 2022 with her family right by her side.    Sherri was born on February 22, 1970, in Fond du Lac to Dennis and Alice (nee Walters) Kreuger.    She graduated from Mayville High School in 1989.   On July 17, 1999, Sherri was united in marriage to Jerry Clark at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Mayville.    Sherri loved her job as a production support coordinator at Mayville Engineering and loved the people she worked with. She also had a love affair with tanning and in her eyes it was a must do. Above all, Sherri loved her family and always put her children first.   Those Sherri leaves behind to cherish her memory include her loving husband, Jerry; two daughters, Marissa and Morgan Clark; two sisters, Jennifer (Joel) Harmsen and Samantha (Curtis) Schlieve; a brother, Dan (special friend Nikki Rauch) Krueger; and many nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.   In honor of Sherri’s wishes, a private family service has been held. Burial of Sherri’s cremated remains was in Graceland Cemetery in Mayville.   Myrhum-Patten Funeral & Cremation Service has been entrusted with Sherri’s arrangements. Please consider signing Sherri’s online guest book and share a private condolence with the family at www.myrhum-patten.com.