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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2017 POSTCRESCENT.COM THE POST-CRESCENT, APPLETON-FOX CITIES, WIS. 3A O. Richard Lee, age 88 passed away on Saturday, September 2, 2017. Dick was born July 8, 1929 in Bismarck, North Dakota, son of the late Olaf O. and Eva Marie Lee.

He went to Bismarck schools, St. Olaf College at Northfield Minnesota and graduated from the University of North Dakota earning a B.S. degree in Marketing in 1951. While attending UND, he worked part time for Montgom- ery Ward and continued working there following graduation. He married Marilyn M.

Duerre in Bis- marck, N.D. on August 23, 1953. In 1956 he accept- ed a position of Assistant Underwriting Manager of Home Mutual Insurance Company (later Secura Insurance) in Appleton, WI. He held various posi- tions with the underwriting operations including five years as Minnesota Underwriting Manager at their Edina, MN. office.

In April of 1974 Dick was promoted to Cor- porate Officer and Assis- tant Vice President of Re- search and Development, a position he held until his retirement in 1991. His military experience included eight years with the National Guard being honorably discharged with the rank of Sergeant First Class. He was a charter member of Prince of Peace Lutheran Church of Ap- pleton, serving ten years on the church council and past president. Dick was also a long time member and past president of Sons of Norway. He was an ac- tive member of Kiwanis- Golden of Appleton, in- cluding service work with the Salvation Army and the Community Blood Bank.

Dick enjoyed cho- ral singing, belonging to choirs in high school, col- lege and in church. Bik- ing, swimming, golfing were sports activities that he participated in and was a fan of most sports in- cluding football and bas- ketball. Watching his sons and grandchildren partici- pate in sports and music was a joy to him. He will be dearly missed by his sons: David Lee, Madison, WI, Steve Lee, St. Paul, MN, and Jim Lee, Appleton, WI; grandsons: Mark and John; grand- daughters: Kira and Amy; nephews Peter Kottom, Bruce Kottom and Randy Duerre; brother-in-law, Don Duerre; sister-in-law, Verna Duerre; and many friends.

Dick was preceded in death by his dear wife, Marilyn; parents; sister, Alice Kottom; brothers-in- law, Jim Kottom and Den- nis Duerre; and nephew, Paul Kottom. Funeral services for Dick will be held on Friday, Sep- tember 8, 2017 at 11 a.m. at PRINCE OF PEACE LU- THERAN CHURCH, 2230 East Calumet Street, Ap- pleton. There will be a time of visitation on Thursday, September 7, 2017 from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m.

at WICH- MANN FUNERAL HOME- TRI COUNTY CHAPEL, 1592 Oneida St, Menasha and again at the church on Friday from 10 a.m. until the time of service. Online condolences may be expressed at www.wich- mannfargo.com. In lieu of flowers, memo- rials can be made to Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in name. Lee, Orin Richard At age 96, died peaceful- ly on September 5, 2017 at of Neenah.

She was born on May 20, 1921 in Greenville, Wisconsin, daughter of the late George Josephine Tennie. On November 12th, 1942, she was married to Elmer John Fassbender at St. Catholic Church in Greenville. In early she worked for Knitting Mill. She was a homemaker raising 11 children and later worked at the Hortonville Can- ning Factory.

She is a life time member of St. Greenville Catholic Church and a member of the Christian Mothers. Irene is survived by her loving family: Louie (Dick) Malouf Joan (Jack) Kuhnke, Larry, Patricia (Bruce) Learman, Gary (Gloria), Joe, Kathy (Rick) Phillips, Rick (Sherri), and Jim (Angie); grandchildren Scott (Wendy), Jeff (Ju- lie), Tam (Steve) Nutter, Tim (Nikki) Malouf; Jack Jr. (Anne) Kuhnke, Jamie (Amy) Kuhnke, Jill (Tim) Harrikkala, Joy (D.J.) Dontje, John (Ellen) Flan- nery, Patrick (Val) Flan- nery, Dan (Heidi) Flan- nery, Mike (Lisa), Michelle (Brian) Niemuth, Jenni- fer Learman, Lisa (Seth) Baehman, Tony (Brenda), Amy, Amanda (Bob) Gross, Joey, Nick, Sam, Josh, Ra- chel (Kyle) Deuster, Katie Tom Dahlke); Further survived son- in-law Jim Flannery, for- mer daughter in laws, Margene Fassbender and Robin Fassbender. Sister Veronica (Don) Herzfeldt and sister-in-law Dolo- res Tennie.

Goddaughter Mary Jo Vanden Huevel. 36 great grandchildren and 4 great-great grand- children and many nieces and nephews. Preceded in death by her husband Elmer, par- ents George Josephine Tennie, son Tom and daughter-in-law Carol, daughter Ruth Flan- nery, great-grandson Kodye Fassbender. Sis- ter Josephine (John) Van Ryte; Edward (Jeanette) Tennie, Wal- ter (Dorothy) Tennie and George Jr. Brother-in-law, Bill Fassbender; sister- in-law Betty (Harold) Fel- land, Henrietta (Lawrence) Beckman, Helen (Walter) Rutten, Barbara (Harvey) Eastman.

Celebration of life will be held on Satur- day, September 9th at St. Mary Catholic church in Greenville N2385 Munici- pal Drive. Visitation will be from 9:00 AM until the time of service. Mass of Christian Burial at 11:00 AM with Rev. Michael War- den and Rev.

Justin War- ner officiating. Interment at St. Cemetery fol- lowing the service. Memo- rials to St. Catholic Church in honor of Irene and Elmer are appreci- ated.

family would like to thank the amazing staff at Memory Care unit and Southern Care Hospice, for their loving care of mom. favorite saying: just another day. Fassbender, Irene M. Bernice E. Suttner, age 87, of rural Chilton passed away peacefully on Wednesday, September 6, 2017, at Century Ridge in Chilton where she resided since this past June.

The former Bernice Boehnlein was born De- cember 2, 1929, in Chilton to Joseph Anna (Arenz) Boehnlein. She attended St. Charles Grade School in Charlesburg. On April 21, 1953, she married Roman A. Suttner at St.

Charles Catholic Church in Charlesburg; Roman preceded her in death on April 27, 2007. Prior to marriage, Ber- nice had worked at the Alu- minum Plant in Chilton. Following her marriage to Roman, she farmed along- side her husband on their farm in the Town of Broth- ertown near Marytown. Bernice was a mem- ber of St. Catholic Church in Marytown and the Marytown Altar Ro- sary Society.

She enjoyed playing bingo, baking cooking and listening to polka music, especially the Jerry Schneider Show. Bernice belonged to sever- al card clubs and attended many Maggie Mae Shows. Bernice had a special way of making people laugh. Survivors include her three children, Nancy (Don) Lisowe of Chilton Dan (Al- ice) Suttner of Chilton and Mary (Bob) Halbach of Chilton six grandchil- dren, Brian Lisowe, Bren- da (Paul) Knuppel, Becky (Chad) Schneider, Keith (Alyssa) Suttner, Dana (Justin) Schaller, and De- nise Halbach (Fiance, Jesse Cullen); seven great- grandchildren, Jake, Sam Knuppel, Macey, McK- enna Schneider, Claire Suttner, Madelyn, Landen Schaller; her sister, Mar- cella Derfus; her sister-in- law, Grace Meyers; nieces; nephews; other relatives; and many friends. Preceding Bernice in death were her parents; her husband, Roman; her brothers and sisters, Claude Boehnlein, Viola (Henry) Broeckel, Stel- la (Ervin) Nett, Mildred (Emil) Hansen, Roman (Ceil) Boehnlein, Loretta (Charles) Bickelhaupt and Elmer (Hilda) Boehnlein; brothers-in-law, Geraine Derfus, Norbert Meyers, and Erwin Suttner.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11:00 AM on Monday, September 11, 2017, at St. Catholic Church in Mary- town, N10232 County Road New Holstein, WI 53061. Rev. Gary Wegner, OFM Cap will officiate. Bernice will be laid to rest next to her husband in the St.

Cemetery. Visitation: Family and friends may call from 3:00 PM until 7:00 PM on Sun- day, September 10th at the Sippel Funeral Home, 2618 Altona Avenue, New Holstein, WI 53061. Visitation will also be at church in Marytown Mon- day morning, September 11th from 10:00 AM until 10:45 AM. For additional informa- tion, please contact the Sippel Funeral Home in New Holstein (920) 898- 4300 or visit www.sippel- funeralhome.net family express- es their heart-felt apprecia- tion to the Century Ridge staff and residents and the Calumet County Hospice, but most of all to the many people who came to visit Suttner, Bernice E. Cox, Marjorie, 94, Winchester, September 6, 2017, Mueller Funeral Home Fassbender, Irene 96, Hortonville, September 5, 2017, Wichmann Funeral Home Jepson, Annette, 84, Iola, September 2, 2017, Kwiatkowski Funeral Home Jost, Cheri 69, Menasha, September 3, 2017, Simply Cremation Kurth, Charles E.

84, Weyauwega, September 5, 2017, Cline Hanson Dahlke Lee, Orin Richard 88, Menasha, September 2, 2017, Wichmann Mayer, John Clements, 66, Neenah, September 2, 2017, Westgor Funeral Home Spolar, Bernadine 89, Shawano, September 4, 2017, Swedberg Funeral Home Suttner, Bernice 87, Chilton, September 6, 2017, Sippel Funeral Home of New Holstein Vanden Heuvel, Lucille 87, Appleton, September 3, 2017, Jansen Fargo DEATH NOTICES Town Administrator Joel Gregozeski said be- cause the flood study been completed, unlikely any restora- tion work would be done in 2017. if we could get a shovel in the ground to- morrow, I know that we have enough growing season to get vegetation Gregozeski said. want to create a bigger concern by not having proper ero- sion controls in place go- ing into next spring. Right now, the site has been In July, the DNR named the town, Woods and the contractor that did the dredging, Robert J. Immel Excavating as defendants in an enforcement action al- leging violations of the water laws.

The case was referred to the Wisconsin Depart- ment of Justice. proceeding with said Scott Koehnke, a DNR water management spe- cialist. of that en- forcement action obvi- ously is getting the site No fine has been lev- ied by the state or county, but that remains a possi- bility. Really a karst? The town hired Sand Creek Consultants of Amherst to conduct a geological study of the area that was dredged. Sand Creek dug six test pits along the stream on Aug.

8 and found no ev- idence of a karst feature, which is an opening in the ground caused by the dis- solution of bedrock. The whirlpools and disappearing stream ob- served by residents and regulators loca- tions where surface wa- ter infiltrates rapidly downward to reach bur- ied lenses of higher per- Sand Creek said in its report. The consultant deter- mined unlikely that the water quality in the stream affects the groundwater drawn by private wells. the relation- ship between land-use ac- tivities and the underly- ing groundwater quality is no different here than in other parts of Green- the report said. The conclusion is con- trary to own land-use plan, which identifies the property as having geologic also contrary to a 2014 peer review of avail- able information by John Luczaj, a geology profes- sor at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, and to observa- tions.

witnessed the water disappearing into the ground, and to me, that is a karst Roach said. probably see that because that area was pretty much destroyed and ove- by the dredging. Sand Creek will pre- sent its findings during the Town regular meeting at 6 p.m. Mon- day. Koehnke have a chance to read the Sand Creek report, but he said whether a karst feature is present has little bearing on the enforce- ment actions.

involved be- cause of the dredging and the realignment of the stream that were done without a he said. Who is responsible? The town, through its sanitary district, has been paying for all of the costs associated with the illegal dredging, stabili- zation and restoration. To date, without any restora- tion work being done, the costs total at least $76,935 ($13,985 for the dredging by Immel, $32,950 for temporary erosion con- trols by Highway Land- scapers and $30,000 for engineering by Mc- Mahon). The floodplain study will cost another $8,800, and Gregozeski said the Sand Creek study was es- timated to cost $15,000 to $16,000. Once the restoration has been done to the satis- faction of regulators, Gregozeski said the re- sponsible parties would meet to negotiate reim- bursements to the town.

Woods declined to talk, for now, about the or- deal and responsi- ble for the costs. Some- one released town funds to pay for the dredging. this thing gets all said and done in the next six to eight months I know how long going to take yet I will sit down and talk with Woods told USA TODAY NET- WORK-Wisconsin. Town Chairman Jack Anderson said the Town Board taken action against Woods for his role in the dredging. no state stat- utes that allow us to do he said.

Anderson said the town has completed its investigation of the mat- ter. On the advice of the attorneys, he de- clined to disclose wheth- er any town staff was dis- ciplined. can tell you that been looking at our processes and proce- dures and have been making some valuable Anderson said. The discipline of town staff been a major emphasis from town resi- dents, Anderson said. people I would say almost 99 percent of them are concerned more about Supervisor Woods than they are about any town he said.

Emails provide insight USA TODAY NET- WORK-Wisconsin filed a public records request to obtain all town emails sent or received by Woods between Dec. 1, 2016, and April 20 in an ef- fort to understand how the illegal dredging oc- curred and why the town paid for it. The town charged $212.50 to fulfill the rec- ords request. It yielded 409 emails, though some were duplicates. The batch of emails shows Dan Klansky, the sanitary district superintendent, was in- volved in the planning of the project.

am working on coor- dinating the cleaning of the ditch right next to the sewer interceptor on the Lin property because it is flooding over the top of our easement and needs to be cleaned Klan- sky said in a Dec. 12 re- port to the Town Board. am concerned I will not be able to access this area in the spring due to flood- ing if I do not address this issue The Lin property is the farmland rented by Woods. The records also show Woods realized the seri- ousness of what was done long before it became public in an April 7 inves- tigative report by USA TODAY NETWORK- Wisconsin. In a Jan.

28 email to Anderson, Woods said he would meet with Immel, Klansky and Chris Pa- gels, the stormwa- ter utility superinten- dent, discuss the ditch that was cleaned The email said, got 1 permit but was suppose to get 2 more from the Cty, and DNR, I believe that John Julius complained to the county, and they are pissed about the clea- nout. should have talked to you sooner on this, THE Town paid for the clea- nout and I paid for some field tile. If you have a minute on Monday to stop in otherwise I will have to sit down with you and talk, there could be some big fines coming from DNR. Supv. Julius is a nearby resi- dent.

Koehnke wrote in a Feb. 2 certified letter that a review of DNR records indicated Woods was made aware of the permit requirements to conducting the One day later, on Feb. 3, Woods sent an email to Anderson that said, I need a closed door mtg, to talk about ditch that was dug, may- be you can add it to anoth- er agenda. Thanks Supv. Duke Behnke: 920- 993-7176, or postcrescent.com; on Twitter Stream Continued from Page 1A RON TODAY NETWORK-WISCONSIN Outagamie County and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources ordered temporary erosion controls earlier this year along an illegally dredged stream and karst feature on farmland west of State 76 in Greenville..