Obituaries

Alan B. Shanks, age 81, former Sauk County Sheriff and retired Wisconsin Emergency Management Director, gifted his beloved wife with his presence in their heavenly home on what would have been her 77th Birthday.  Al passed peacefully in Merrimac, in his home on Apr. 11, 2020.  He was born Mar.

Darrell “Mac” McCluskey, age 94, passed away on April 7, 2020.  He was born July 9, 1925, to the late William and Helena McCluskey in Madison, Wi.  Mac graduated from East High School in the class of 1943.  He served in the US Army from 1943-1946.  He married the love of his life Dolores “Dode” Baebler in 1949 and were together for 63 years.  She p

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“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”   E.E. Cummings

Retired US AF Colonel Thomas “Tom” O’Regan Haig died of natural causes Sunday, March 15, 2020, at 9:10 p.m. at Agrace Hospice in Fitchburg, WI. He was 98 years old. 

Mary Jane Sprecher, age 73, passed away at St. Clare Meadows in Baraboo on Mar. 28, 2020.  She was born in Baraboo on Dec. 9, 1946 to the late Walter and Erna (Groener) Bretsch. Mary attended Baraboo High School and graduated in the class of 1965.  That same year, she was united in marriage to Paul R. Sprecher from Blackhawk on Aug.

Mom was born on the family farm north of Leland on September 11, 1918 to parents Richard Repka and Theresa (Reinecke) Repka. She passed away peacefully at home on March 20, 2020 at the age of 101. March 20 was her father’s birthday.

Daryl C. Ruhland, age 66, passed away peacefully at UW Hospital surrounded by loved ones on March 15, 2020. He was born in Madison, Wisconsin to the late Victor and Edna (Haas) Ruhland. Daryl graduated from Sauk Prairie High School class of 1972. He was united in marriage to Mary C. Rosen on August 12, 1978.

Susan was born December 12, 1960 in Sauk Prairie, the daughter of Cliff and Lois (Lucey) Pieper.  She spent the first years of life in Sauk City.  At the age of six she attended Lapham Orthopedic School, and graduated from Madison Memorial High School’s special education program for the developmentally disabled.

Jacqueline Suzanne Vieregge, nee Olson, age 85, of Hudson, WI, died Thursday, March 12, 2020 at Red Cedar Canyon Senior Living in Hudson.  Jackie was born to Harvey and Hazel Olson in Ettrick, WI on July 13, 1934.  She grew up and thrived in the small town with her younger sister, Maxine, and loving, hard working parents.  Jackie married Evan Don V