Marjorie Jean Petzel

MERCER, Wis. — Marjorie Jean “Margie” Petzel, of Mercer, passed away peacefully on June 2, 2015.

The former Marjorie Sutherland was born on March 19, 1934, in Morse, daughter of the late Turi and Pearl (Parrett) Sutherland. She attended grade school in Morse and graduated from Mercer High School in 1952.

Margie worked at the Simpson Electric Company in Lac du Flambeau and various other electronic companies in Milwaukee and Chicago. She received recognition for her contribution to Operation Polaris in May 1960. After returning home to Mercer, she worked at Simpson Electric Company in Mercer and then for her brother, Claude Sutherland, in his painting contracting business until her retirement.

Margie was a devoted member of St. Isaac Jogues Catholic Church in Mercer.

Margie was an especially fun-loving person with a good heart. She was especially fond of children and animals. She spent much of her life caring for family and friends. Sports were very important in Margie’s life. She loved watching and playing basketball, baseball, football and golf. She was an avid Green Bay Packer fan. In addition, she very much enjoyed music, concerts and traveling with family and friends.

Marjorie was married to the late Donald J. Petzel on Aug. 31, 1979, at St. Isaac Jogues Catholic Church in Mercer, by Father James Nesbitt.

Surviving are one brother, Russell Sutherland, of Mercer; and two sisters, Elaine Mears, of Mercer, and Lorraine Hall, of Tomahawk; one brother-in-law, Erling Nelson, of Ashland, Ore .; and numerous nieces and nephews, whom she helped to raise through the years, and held and loved them as her very own.

Besides her parents and husband, Margie was preceded in death by her sisters, Harriet, Rosemary and June; her brothers, Claude, Vernon and Ronald; brothers-in-law, Aldo Clapero, Dale Mears, Ken Mutanen and Clement Hall; and her sisters-in-law, Betty Sutherland and June Sutherland.

Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 12, at St. Isaac Jogues Catholic Church in Mercer, with Deacon Norbert Brossmer officiating.

Committal services and interment will follow in the Mercer Cemetery.

Luncheon will be served in the Church Fellowship Hall upon return from the cemetery.

Friends may call at the church from 10 a.m. until the hour of service on Saturday.

Range Funeral Service and Crematory & Ketola-Burla Funeral Home in Ironwood are assisting the family with arrangements.