Month: October 2017

Elkhorn

Farm to table event supports free clinic

A farm to table event Sept. 24 at Boxed & Burlap, Delavan, raises funds for the Open Arms Free Clinic, Elkhorn, the only free clinic in Walworth County. Above: guests eat dinner which was created using products from local growers. Right: Elkhorn Area High School HOSA members Elizabeth Gottschalk (on […]

Elkhorn

‘Fabulous fall celebration’

The Keefe Kares Fabulous Fall Celebration, held Sept. 22 in the activity center at the Walworth County Fairgrounds featured a pig roast dinner, raffle prizes, live music, and live and silent auctions. Above:Barbara Philipps (from the left), Sue Wendt and Ann Esarco help guests. Left: Karen Ostermeier stays busy selling […]

Walworth-Fontana area

Boats galore

Vintage watercraft are on display the Abbey Marina in Fontana at the Geneva Lakes Antique and Classic Boat Show, an annual event featuring antique and classic runabouts, continentals, cruisers, lapstrake and outboard. There was also a boat parade, live music, food, vendors and award competitions. (Dave Dresdow photo)

Obituaries

JEROME C. SCHELL

Jerome Casimir Schell died Sept. 29, 2017. A memorial mass will be at 2 p.m. Monday at St. Bruno Catholic Parish 226 W. Ottawa Ave. Dousman. Visitation is from 1 p.m. until the time of service. Lockwood and Associates Funeral Homes in Palmyra is assisting the family.  

Elkhorn

Meet the ‘family’

Lakeland Players to perform a howling Halloween treat Gomez and Morticia Addams proudly raise their weird and wonderful family to enjoy every moment of their miserable life in their rundown mansion house in Central Park, according to a press release from Lakeland Players about the upcoming performance of “The Addams […]

Obituaries

HAZEL FISCHER

      Hazel Fischer, 88, of Walworth, passed away Sept. 23, 2017. Hazel is survived by her son, Joseph Fischer, of Milwaukee; and daughter, Ellen Hudson; son-in-law, Robert Adams; grandson, Joshua Hudson, and granddaughter, Sarah Hudson, all of Chattanooga, Tenn. She was preceded in death by her husband of 42 years, […]

Obituaries

ELEANOR L. LEHMANN

      Eleanore I. Lehmann, 99, of Fontana, passed away Sept. 30, 2017, at Mercy Walworth Medical Center. She was born Aug. 31, 1918, in Fontana to Frank G. and Hattie A. (Koch) Long. Eleanore worked for Borg Industries in Delavan, Frank Holton Band Co. in Elkhorn and a medical company […]

Obituaries

ANGELA CRUZ FIGUEROA

Angela Cruz Figueroa, 67, of Delavan, died at Froedtert Hospital in Wauwatosa. Funeral service will be at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday at St. Andrew Catholic Church. Friends may call at the church from 10:30 a.m. Tuesday until service time at the church. Betzer Funeral Home of Delavan is assisting the family.

Obituaries

MARGARET MACKAY

Margaret MacKay, 74, of San Jose, Calif., formerly of Delavan, died on Sept. 9, 2017. Margaret Mackay, the former Margaret (Mudge) Fleming was born Nov. 11, 1943 in Elkhorn to the late Walter and Clara Fleming. She later married Bryan Mackay in 1978. Mudge had worked for the San Jose, […]