Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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ONTONAGON - Cancer dealt a double whammy for Gail Ollila, of Ontonagon. Ollila was a custodian at the Ontonagon Area Elementary-Junior High School when she met and married teacher and elementary principal Jim Ollila in 1983. When their daughter, Amanda, was born, Ollila became a stay-at-home mom. In addition to Amanda, she has two step-sons from her husband's previous marriage. Jim Ollila was just 56 when he was diagnosed with esophageal cancer. Surgery and chemotherapy followed. He was still re...
IRONWOOD - Ironwood students in kindergarten through sixth grades got the chance to take a break from their regular classes and celebrate Halloween Friday during the school's "fun frolic" event. The frolic allowed each grade to take part in a variety of games and activities in the elementary gym with the chance to receive candy for at the end of most events. Games included a sack race, coloring and a challenge that had student to find a safety pin in a bowl of rice while blindfolded. Each grade...
Saturday, Oct. 31 Community Pickleball Paddlers, 9 a.m. to noon, Mercer School gymnasium. 715-776-4588. Alcoholics Anonymous, 11 a.m., Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Free Supper, 5-6 p.m., Apostolic Lutheran Church, Aurora Street, Ironwood. Alcoholics Anonymous, 6-7 p.m., Church of Transfiguration, Ironwood. Open speaker meeting/potluck dinner. Sunday, Nov. 1 Alcoholics Anonymous, 1 p.m., closed meeting, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. Gogebic Range Trail Authority, 6 p.m., Pit Stop, Bessemer. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7:30 p.m., S...
PACIFIC GROVE, Calif. - If you'd had a short conversation with Randy Baribeau, no doubt you would learn that he was married for 31 years to Mary, and that they had a son named Aaron, whom Randy often called "Sunshine." He would certainly mention that he had just finished serving as president of the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula Recovery Center Alumni board, and that he hadn't taken an alcoholic drink in almost five years. Even in that brief conversation he'd pay homage to his...
TULSA, Okla. - Carol M. (Doney) Dollar, 54, of Afton, passed away on Monday, Oct. 26, 2015, in Tulsa. She was born Sept. 23, 1961, in Wakefield, Mich., the daughter of Richard and Ethel (Stoole) Doney. Carol grew up in Wakefield and graduated from Wakefield High School in 1979. Throughout her life she moved with her military family all over the world. In 2010, she met her soul mate, Jim, and moved to Afton to be with him. Together she and Jim would spend summers in Wakefield and return home for...
RON RIVER, Mich. - Wayne Clarence Olson, 72, of Iron River, passed away Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015, at his home at Camp Lake with his loving wife and all his daughters at his side, succumbing to pancreatic cancer. He was born Sept. 15, 1943, in Stambaugh Hospital, the son of the late Clarence and Doris (Lee) Olson. He grew up on the family farm in Beechwood with his sister and brother. Wayne worked in the woods, cutting logs for his father and then helping him with his sawmill, making lumber. He...
IRONWOOD, Mich. - William Peter "Pete" Coleman, 79, of Ironwood, passed away on Saturday, Oct. 24, 2015, in Ironwood. He was born July 26, 1936, in Ironwood, the son of Wiljo and Gladys (Saari) Coleman. Pete attended Bessemer Schools and graduated from A.D. Johnston High School in 1954. Pete was a resident of Westgate Nursing Rehabilitation and Assisted Living Community since 2008. He was previously employed at Johnson Motors in Kenosha, Wis., for 25 years. Pete is survived by his two sisters,...
ARBOR VITAE, Wis. — Roger Pukall, 95, of Arbor Vitae, died at his home on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015. He was born July 21, 1920, in Shepley, the eldest child of Fred and Marie (Ruhbusch) Pukall. The family moved to Arbor Vitae in 1937 and started Pukall Lumber Company. On July 25, 1945, he was united in marriage with Mary Underwood in Toronto, Ontario. He took over management of Pukall Lumber Company in the late 1940s, and remained president until his death. He was preceded in death by his beloved wife of 67 years, Mary, in February 2013, and b...
