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a a Winona Daily News Daily record Thursday, December 3, 1992 Funeral arrangements Roy C. Flattum Visitation after 7 p.m. today at MartinMyhre Funeral Home, with devotional service at 8:45 p.m., and from 10 a.m. Friday until 11 a.m. service at Central Lutheran Church.

Burial in Woodlawn Cemetery. Amy C. Evenson Visitation from 1 p.m. today until 2 p.m. service at Central Lutheran Church.

Burial in Woodlawn Cemetery. (Fawcett Funeral Home) Paul C. Rofuth Visitation from 10 a.m. today until 11 a.m. service at Martin-Myhre Funeral Chapel.

Burial in Woodlawn Cemetery. ARCADIA, Wis. Ignatz Giemza Service at 1 p.m. today at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church. Burial i in Calvary Cemetery.

(Wozney Funeral Home) CALEDONIA, Minn. Bert N. Welscher Visitation from 2-9. p.m: today at McCormick Funeral Home with rosary, at 8 p.m. Service at 10 a.m.

Friday at the funeral home and 10:30 a.m. at St. Mary's Church. Burial in Calvary Cemetery. HOUSTON, Minn.

Nina Olson Service at 2 p.m. Friday at Cross of Christ Lutheran Church. (Cook Funeral Home) GILMANTON, Wis. Lawrence E. Marum Visitation from 5-9 p.m.

today and until 10:30 a.m. Friday at Kjentvet Son Funeral Home, Mondovi, and from noon Friday until 1:30 p.m. service at Trinity Lutheran Church. Burial in Gilmanton GALESVILLE, Wis. J.

0. Beadle Visitation from 10 a.m. today until 11 a.m. memorial service at First Presbyterian Church. Burial in Pine Cliff Cemetery.

(Smith Mortuary) Death notices Death notices received 8 a.m.-9 p.m. weekdays, 4-9 p.m. weekends; paid obits 10 a.m.-4 p.m. weekdays, 4-8 p.m. weekends.

Death notices Frank Rossin Sr. Frank Rossin 88, of 117 East Broadway died Wednesday (Dec. 2, 1992), at Community Memorial Hospital. He was born on Dec. 23, 1903.

Funeral services will be held at. 10 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 5, at the Fawcett Funeral Home. Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery, Winona.

Visitation will be from 7-9 p.m. Friday evening at the Fawcett Funeral Home. Rose M. Lawrenz PLAINVIEW, Minn. Rose M.

Lawrenz (Mrs. Henry), 96, died suddenly on Wednesday (Dec. 2, 1992) at her home in Plainview. Funeral arrangements are pending with Schad and Zabel Funeral Home in Plainview. Rosie Weymiller EITZEN, Minn.

Rosie Weymiller, 98, of Eitzen died Wednesday (Dec. 2, 1992) in Caledonia, Minn. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at HaugenRoble Funeral Chapel in Caledonia. Burial will be in New Albin City Cemetery, New Albin, Iowa.

Visitation will be from 4-8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home, and one hour before services Saturday. Roscoe Wald MANCHESTER, Ill. Roscoe Wald, 76, of Manchester, formerly of Winona, died Wednesday (Dec. 2, 1992) in a car accident near Manchester.

He was born Nov. 7, 1916, in Alma, Wis. Burial will be in Alma. Funeral arrangements are pending. Lottery numbers Minnesota Numbers selected Wednesday Daily 3: 6-8-8 Powerball 1-4-26-35-42 Powerball: 28 Jackpot: $9 million lowa Iowa Lotto: 2-12-20-22-23-37 Jackpot: $3.2 million.

Wild Card: Three of diamonds. $100,000 Cash Game: 4-9-12-22-24 Illinois Daily Game: 0-3-0 Pick Four: 3-0-2-0 Little Lotto: 1-11-17-24-30 Lotto: 15-27-33-44-46-48 Jackpot: $8 million Wisconsin SuperCash: 1-8-11-20-28-33 Jackpot: $250,000. Daily Pick 3: 5-5-0 Megabucks: 2-14-16-29-32-43 Jackpot: $2.3 million Ralph 'Butch' L. Wieczorek Ralph "Bufch" L. 66, 557 E.

2nd died Wednesday (Dec. 2, 1992) at St. Marys tal in Rochester, Minn. He was born on Aug. 1, 1926, to Joseph J.

and Martha (Feltz) Wieczorek In Winona. He married Annette F. Breza on April 21, 1948, in St. Stanislaus Church, Winona. He had been employed at Bay State Milling for 25 years until retiring.

He was a member of St. Stanislaus Church, Knights of Columbus Council No. 639, Winona Athletic Club and its 24 Hour Club, Polish Museum, Westfield Golf Club and was an avid golfer. He played semi-pro baseball in the 3 1 League for teams in Waterloo, lowa, Muskegon, and for the Winona Chiefs. He is survived by his wife, Annette, Winona; one son, Michael (Lynn) Wieczorek, McHenry, three daughters, Kristine (William) Bonow, Winona, Karen (Sidney) Madlock, Minneapolis, and Sally Wieczorek, Eagan, five grandchildren, Seth and Jessica Bonow, Kelly and Lindsy Wieczorek and Abigail Madlock; and two sisters, Marcella (Henry) Bowker, Eau Claire, and Patricia (John Cada of Winona.

He is preceded in death by his parents, two brothers and three sisters. A memorial Mass will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 5, at St. Stanislaus Church; the Rev.

Donald Lovas and the Rev. Paul Breza officiating. The body has been cremated. Friends may call. from 5-8 p.m.

on Friday at the Watkowski Funeral Home, where there will be a Christian Wake Service at 7 p.m. Honorary pallbearers are two godsons, Curtis Koch and Tim Fitzgerald, and Dewey Grossell, Jim Miller, Dick Hartert and Mike Ginther. Ignatz Giemza ARCADIA, Wis. Ignatz Giemza, 81, of Arcadia died Monday (Nov. 30, 1992) at St.

Joseph's Nursing Home, Arcadia. He was born April 21, 1911, in North to Lawrence and Agatha (Kupka) Giemza. He was married to Regina Rocholl on May 18, 1938, at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church by the Rev. Joseph Hauck. She died on Dec.

26,.1969. Ignatz and Regina farmed on Glencoe Ridge in partnership with John and Margaret Rocholl. In 1954, they sold the farm to Ernest and Rose Kamla. Ignatz then worked for Arcadia Industries until he retired. He is preceded in death by his parents, three stepbrothers, and two stepsisters.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, with the Rev. James McNamee officiating. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Diana Bork, Karen Gould, Theresa Kamla, Stella Suchla, Dan Kamla, and Rudy Wozney.

Instead of flowers, the family requests that memorials be directed to St. Joseph's Nursing Home in Arcadia. Wozney Funeral Home, Arcadia, is in charge of arrangements. John J. Zacher WEST ST.

PAUL, Minn. John J. Zacher, 70, of Shoreview, died Tuesday (Dec. 1, 1992) af his home. He was born March 16, 1922, in St.

Paul. He married Waneta Peterson. He was a machinist for Burlington Northern Railroad. He is survived by his wife, Waneta; children, Karen Emery of Woodbury, John (Barbara) of Ham Lake, Kris of St. Paul, Frank.

(Cindi) of Winona, Kate Zacher-Pate (Robert) of Shoreview, and Robert (Colleen) of Shoreview; one sister, Beverly Kelley (Harvey) of Inver Grove Heights, 13 grandchildren, and one greatgrandson. A funeral Mass will be held Saturday at 10 a.m. at St. Stanislaus Church in St. Paul.

Visitation will be Friday from 4-9 p.m. at West Funeral Home in West St. Paul. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery, St. Paul.

Wednesday 8:35 a.m. Unit sent to Winona Senior High School, 901 Gilmore where a smoke bomb was set off in a laboratory. Smoke was cleared from the building. Unit returned at 8:50 a.m. 12:20 p.m.

Unit sent to a residence on Prairie Island Road where there was a chimney fire. Raymond H. Ziegler FOUNTAIN CITY, Wis. mond H. Ziegler, 75, WO 296 County Road Fountain City, died Tuesday (Dec.

1, 1992) at. St. Joseph's Hospital, Arcadia, Wis. He was born July 1, 1917, In Buffalo County, in Doelle's Valley to John and Minnie (Haeuser) Ziegler. He was a Fountain City area resident all of his life.

He was a dairy farmer, worked for Roettiger of Fountain City, and also drove a school bus for 15 years for the Cochrane-Fountain City School District. He married Evelyn (Lynn) Sieker on Sept. 10, 1941, in Winona. He was a member of St. Martin's Evangelical Lutheran Church, past president of the Fountain City Rod and Gun Club, former member of the farm bureau, and an avid hunter; he taught polka dancing and he was a member of the Polkateers.

Survivors Include his wife; four sons, Gary Ziegler of Winona, Clete Ziegler of Fountain City, Neil (Doreen) Ziegler of Fountain City, and Rodney (Carrie), Ziegler of Fountain City; one daughter, Sharon Rieck (Roger) of Alma, 12 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; two brothers, George (Marlys) Ziegler of Fountain City and Henry (Geraldine) Ziegler of Fountain City; three sisters, Lillian Bork of Fountain City, Ella Powell of Ettrick, and Margaret Bork of Fountain City; special greatniece, Janice Meier of Alma; and one grandson-in-law. He was preceded in death by three brothers, Harry, Melvin, and twin brother, Roy. Services will be held Saturday, Dec. 5, 1992, at 11 a.m. at St.

Martin's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Winona, the Rev. Ronald Dommer officiating. Burial will be in Bohri Valley Buffalo County, Wis. Friends may call Friday from 4-6 p.m. and from 7-9 p.m.

at the Martin-Myhre Funeral Home and from 10-11 a.m. Saturday at St. Martin's Evangelical Lutheran Church. A devotional service will be held at 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral Pallbearers will be Fred Brandhorst, LeRoy Schaffner, Robert Sieker, Donald Wolfe, Galen Engel, and Allen Jahn.

John 'Jack' Ford MINNESOTA CITY, Minn. John "Jack" Ford, 79, of Rt. 1, Minnesota. City, died Tuesday (Dec. 1, 1992) at his home.

He was born on May 22, 1913, in Wiscoy Township of Winona County to Guy G. and. Rose (Gallagher) Ford. He married Lilla E. Volkman on Nov.

18, 1939, at Wilson, Minn. He farmed for many years in the Witoka area and also worked for 14 years at Madison Silo before retiring. Jack was a member of First Evangelical Lutheran Church, Minnesota City. He is survived by his wife, Lilla of Minnesota City; two daughters, Audrey (Herb) Johnson of Winona and Karen (Jerry) Pilger of Hokah, two sons, John (Lori) Ford of Eagan, Minn. and Jerry (Lisa) Ford of St.

Charles, 11 grandchildren, Kevin (Leanne) Konkel, Monroe, Greg (Nancy) Konkel, New Hope, Brian (Linda) Konkel, Prescott, Dan (Patrice) Konkel, Winona, Wendy (Mark) Nelson, La Crosse, Debra Pilger, Minneapolis, Ryan Ford, Eagan, Tom Ford, Eagan, Jeremy Ford, Charles, Regina Ford, St. Charles, and Zackary Ford, St. Charles; four great-grandchildren; several. nieces, nephews and cousins. He was preceded in death by his parents; a brother, James; and a sister, Mary Fahrenholtz.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 5, at the First Evangelical Lutheran Church in Minnesota City, with the Rev. David M. Eckert officiating.

Interment will be in the Witoka Cemetery, Witoka, Minn. Friends may call from 7-9 p.m. on Friday at the Fawcett Funeral Home and also from noon until the time, of seryices on Saturday at the church. Casketbearers will be grandsons Kevin, Gregory, Brian and Daniel Konkel and Jeremy and Ryan Ford. A memorial is being arranged.

The fire was out upon unit's arrival. Unit returned at 1:02 p.m. 4:51 p.m. Unit sent to 270 Center where there was a car fire. Unit returned at 5:17 p.m.

5:17 p.m. Unit sent to 4th and Walnut streets, where there was a reported smoke odor. Nothing was found. Unit returned at 5:27 p.m. Nina B.

Olson HOUSTON, Minn. Nina B. Olson, 95, of Houston died Tuesday (Dec. 1, 1992) at the Valley View Nursing Home, Houston. She was born May 10, 1897, In Winneshlek County, lowa, to Frank and Emma (Mervin) Johnson.

She worked as a nurse in Caledonia, and in the Mabel, and Hesper, lowa, areas; and also served as a home health nurse. She married Herbie Olson on Sept. 4, 1929, in Mabel; he died in February 1991. She was a member of Cross of Christ Lutheran Church and was a member of the WELCA of the church. Survivors include a son, Wayne (Elsie) of Houston, three grandchildren, Steven and Carl, both of La Crosse, and Sara of Houston; and two nieces.

Preceding her in death were two brothers and one sister. Services will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at the Cross of Christ Lutheran Church, Houston, with pastors Mark Rydberg and Julie Frank officiating. Burial will be in the Stone Church Cemetery. Friends may call at the Cook Funeral Home, Houston, today from 4-8 p.m.

and Friday from 9- 11:30 a.m. and at the church from 1 p.m. until the service. Births NELSON, Wis. Teena and Alan Kraujalis, Nelson, a daughter born Wednesday (Dec.

2, 1992) at Community Memorial Hospital. ARCADIA, Wis. John and Lynn Reeves, Arcadia, a son born Tuesday, Nov. 24, 1992, at St. Joseph Hospital.

Gas From page 1A "stir up more bad publicity for me." Leaf said his business did not cause the groundwater contamination. As for the gasoline tanks, he said: "I know what's in the tanks. As far back as 1970, some residents have reported the smell of gasoline coming from their private drinking wells, Thompson said. Residents of the neighborhood have since been hooked up to the city water system, but some still are using private wells to water their lawns, he noted. In 1989, the MPCA discovered tetrachloroethene, or PCE, in private wells in amounts exceeding federal limits in the Clarks LaneGilmore area.

PCE, a suspected cancer-causing chemical, is a solvent commonly used in dry cleaning. "My client is not implicated in the solvent contamination," Broberg said. Zoning hearing set in Buffalo Co. ALMA, Wis. The Buffalo County Zoning Committee has scheduled a public hearing on Dec.

10 at 7:30 p.m. in the county courthouse to consider a proposal to rezone nine acres of land in the town of Mondovi. Rezoning was requested by the owner, Kenneth Parker of Mondovi. Parker wants to change the zoning for the land from industrial district to agricultural use. All of the land is located northwest of Parker Road in section 35, according to Buffalo County Zon- ing Administrator Nate Sampson.

Remember when 10 years Winona musician Ruth Bures has composed a cluster of Christmas songs for children, "Here Comes Christmas," just released to record stores across the country for the holiday season. 25 years ago Lionel Adank Fountain City, and Eugene Adank, Arcadia, have taken 106 coons from the Trempealeau River area between Dodge and Arcadia this fall. 50 years ago Several WPA projects of a social service type i in Winona will be discontinued soon as a result of President Roosevelt's order to liquidate all WPA projects by Feb. 1. 75 years ago Seventy-five Winona Home Guards, including Captain Wells Levene, left for St.

Paul to respond to the call received by Capt. Levene ordering the men on duty. 100 years ago The new Opera House opened with praise and admiration from everyone. It is a very beautiful Right-to-die issues focus of Minn. forum Associated Press BLOOMINGTON, Minn.

The human toll of right-to-die battles will be the focus of an international conference Thursday featuring key players in landmark court rulings. The parents of Karen Ann Quinlan, Nancy Cruzan and Christine Busalacchi are among those scheduled to address an audience of doctors, lawyers, health-care and social workers. "Never before has there been a conference that emphasizes the human drama of the players themselves," said Dr. Ronald Cranford, a Minneapolis neurologist and a supporter of the national right-to-die movement. "We're going to hear the story from the families themselves." The families of Cruzan, Quinlan and Busalacchi waged court challenges to remove the women from life support after they were declared to be in a persistent vegetative state.

The Busalacchi case is now before the Missouri Supreme Court. The conference also will look at assisted-suicide. legislation, said Arthur Caplan, director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Biomedical Ethics, the conference's sponsor. In 22 states, including Minnesota, assisting in a suicide is a felony. Voters in California and Buschkopf- From page 1A wounds, but recovered.

The couple was living in the motel after they lost their Winona home due to financial difficulties. Juries found Buschkopf and Lucas guilty of plotting and carrying out the murder to collect nearly $80,000 in insurance on Theodore Buschkopf's life and to further their love affair. The death came after a summer filled with murder attempts by the pair, including a plan to kill Theodore Buschkopf with a blow to his head by a baseball bat and another plan to get him to pass out after drinking alcohol and to then park him in his car on a railroad crossing in Nelson, Wis. If a train struck him, Carlene Buschkopf planned to sue the railroad for $3.5 million, according to a witness who testified at her trial. But that murder at- WORLD WAR I FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY DEC.

3 Germany's 10th Panzer Division captures Djedeida and Tebourba in Tunisia, forcing the British to retreat north of Medjez el Bab; American paratroopers and Free French soldiers capture Faid Pass. In the Pacific, U.S. bombers flying from Guadalcanal begin almost daily attacks on a Japanese airfield being built at Munda Point on New Georgia island. Source: "2194 Days of War," W. H.

Smith Publishers "World Almanac Book of World War II," Bison Books 1981 Washington recently have rejected, measures that would have legalized helping people kill themselves in certain situations. Derek Humphry of the Hemlock Society is to attend, as well as speakers from Holland, which has weakened its assisted-suicide laws. Euthanasia opponents and advocates for the disabled also are expected, including James Bopp of the National Legal Center for the Medically Disabled and Rita Marker of the International AntiEuthanasia Task Force. Linda Everett, a spokeswoman for a national group called Citizens Against Nazi Euthanasia, said she expects protests 'outside the conference site. Handicapped and elderly people are endangered by the right-to-die movement's talk of eliminating lifesaving intervention, she said.

Oratorio chorus receives grants The Winona Oratorio Chorus has received matching grants from the Greater Winona Area Community Foundation and the Elizabeth Callender King Foundation. Other grant recipients this year include the Winona Adult Literary Program and the YWCA Choices program. tempt also failed. In her Nov. 19 application to the pardons board, Buschkopf states of herself: "Since the inmate has entered the prison system, she has cooperated with the treatment which has been provided for her and she is now rehabilitated.

The prison system has nothing further to offer this inmate except to incarcerate and warehouse her person." While at the Shakopee, women's prison, she helped police catch a drug trafficker inside the prison, according to her statement. "The special condition that this inmate presents to the board is the fact that she is in danger because of her assistance in the drug investigation. The inmate has experienced low-grade intestinal problems due to food tampering and she has been intimidated and threatened by fellow inmates," she wrote in the application. Buschkopf tried to escape from the women's prison in the mid1980s, Gernes said. She now is at the Moose Lake, facility, though it is not clear how long she has been there.

As the original prosecuting attorney, Gernes recently wrote the board a letter to provide his input on the case. "Mr. Theodore Buschkopf was a civil engineer. His parents were proud of his accomplishments. If he were alive, he would be a source of comfort to them during the upcoming Christmas.

holiday season," he wrote. "It is difficult to find any redeeming values in Ms. Buschkopf. She took the life of her husband and in so doing adversely affected the lives of a number of people." Winona Daily News Thursday, December 3, 1992 Vol. 13, No.

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