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Safford, Helen |
Safford,
Wally |
Santefort,
Erik |
Santefort,
James |
Santefort, Margaret |
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Saur, Glenn |
Schiffman, Christine |
Schiffman,
Fred |
Schiffman, Gerhardt |
Schiffman,
Glen |
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Schiffman, Malcolm |
Schiffman,
Ray |
Schiffman, Roselie |
Schmidt, Eric |
Schmidt, Gary |
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Schmidt, Sarah |
Schmolze, Glen |
Schmolze,
Gina |
Schoppe,
Dennis |
Schoppe,
Patti |
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Schuettner, Norman, Jr. |
Schuettner, Norman, Sr. |
Schuettner, Steven |
Schuettner, Valerie |
Seegert,
Greg |
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Seegert, Wally |
Selke, Harold |
Shannon,
Clarence |
Shay, Daniel |
Shay, John |
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Sherren, Art |
Sherren, Brian |
Sherron,
James |
Sherron,
Margo |
Sisson, John |
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Smith, Robert |
Stecker, Karen |
Stecker,
Larry |
Steel, Anna |
Steel,
Russel, Jr. |
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Steel, Russell, Sr. |
Steiner, Glenn |
Stiemke,
Ervin |
Stiemke,
Jarrod |
Stiemke,
Sandra |
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Helen Safford
Residency: 1972
Helen
is married to
Wally Safford.
She is the mother of Rhonda Danyus
and Anthony Rossi. She owns/operates
Helen's Sandbox day care center.
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Wally Safford
Residency: Unknown
Wally worked for Holly Trucking for many years. He is currently
retired.
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Erik Santefort
Residency: Mid-1980's
Eric
is a son of
James Santefort.
He is currently employed with Vilas County Sheriff's Department.
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James
Santefort
Residency: Mid 1980's
Jim is
involved with real estate and operates his own construction
business.
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Margaret Santefort
Residency: Unknown
Known in our area as "Maggie," she is married to
Erik Santefort and works at
Thunderbird Pass (Polzin's).
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Glen Sauer
Residency: Mid 1980's
Glenn was well-known
and well-liked in the area. He moved here after retiring and
lived on Found Lake for many years.
Date deceased: Unknown
Cause of death: Unknown
Interment: Unknown
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Christine Schiffman
Residency: Born here
Christine is a
daughter of
Gerhardt and
Rosalie Schiffman. She is married (last name unknown)
and resides out of the area.
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Fred Schiffman
Residency: 1946
Fred
purchased and operated Whispering Pines Resort on Pickerel Lake
(Hwy J) with his son, Ray, in 1946.
Date deceased: Unknown
Cause of death: Unknown
Interment: Unknown
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Gerhardt Schiffman
Residency: 1946
Gerhardt (Gary) is a son of
Ray Schiffman
and the father of Christine
and Glen.
Gary was 4 years old when his father moved here. He took over
management of the family resort, Whispering Pines, from 1975 -
2000.
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Glen Schiffman
Residency: Born here
Glen is the son of
Gerhardt
and Rosalie
Schiffman.
He owns and operates Custom Components and is a major building
contractor in the area.
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Malcolm Schiffman
Residency: Born here
Malcom is a
son of
Ray Schiffman
and a brother to Gerhardt.
He helped with the maintenance of Whispering Pines Resort and is
currently employed by Oneida County.
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Ray Schiffman
Residency: 1946
Ray and his father,
Fred Schiffman, purchased and operated Whispering Pines
Resort on Pickerel Lake (Hwy J) in 1946. He is the father of
Gerhardt (Gary)
and Malcolm Schiffman.
Date deceased: Unknown
Cause of death: Unknown
Interment: Unknown
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Roselie Schiffman
Residency: Unknown
Roselie
is married to
Gerhardt (Gary)
Schiffman
and is the mother of
Christine and
Glenn
Schiffman.
She took part in the management and operations of Whispering
Pines Resort. She also worked in an Eagle River accounting
office for many years.
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Eric Schmidt
Residency: Unknown
Eric has been in the construction
business with his father for many years. He is married to
Sarah
(Best) Schmidt.
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Gary Schmidt
Residency: Uknown
Gary was a member of the Vilas County Sheriff's Department for
many years. He also took over management of his father's resort
on Lost Lake.
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Sarah Schmidt
Residency: Born here
Sarah is a daughter
of
Boyd and
Judy Best.
She worked in law enforcement in Shawano county for many years.
She then moved back to St. Germain and married
Eric Schmidt.
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Glenn Schmolze
Residency: Early 1970's
Glenn came from
Sheboygan, WI and purchased the supper club at Leisure Lodge (Weise
Reort)).
A few years after this, he was badly
injured in a snowmobile accident which permanently confined him
to a wheelchair. He was well-known for playing the accordion and
had music in his bar most weekends. He sold the supper club
(unknown person), which later burned down.
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Gina Schmolze
Residency: Early 1970's
Gina was employed with Fabulous Sam's for many years and she is
now wrking in the home Health area.
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Dennis Schoppe
Residency: Born in Sayner, WI
Dennis lived in Sayner, WI many years before moving to St.
Germain in 1974. He was employed at Plum Lake Golf Course for
many years.
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Patti Schoppe
Patti is a daughter of
John Moriarity
and married to Dennis Schoppe.
She is currently employed with CESA.
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Norman Schuettner, Jr.
Residency: 1971
Norm operated Thunderbird Pass (Polzin's)
after his father retired. He also served as town constable for
several years. The T-bird was eventually sold to Richard
Dolezak. Norm also guided for many years and was well-known as
the "Flowage Flash." He is currently employed with Waldmann
Construction.
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Norman Schuettner, Sr.
Residency: 1971
Norm purchased Thunderbird Pass (Polzin's)
from
Don Schulpius.
His son (Norm,
Jr.)
operated it after he retired and it was sold in 1981. The tavern
also had gasoline pumps and a live bait and tackle shop. It was
open (including the bar) at 7:00 AM every morning.
Date deceased: August 4, 1993
Cause of death: Heart attack
Interment: St. Germain Cemetery
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Steven Schuettner
Steve is a son of
Norman, Jr.
and Valerie
Schuettner.
He worked for Lindgren R.F. Enterprises south of Minoqua for
several years and now operates a sub-contracting business in
Houston, Texas.
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Valerie Schuettner
Residency: 1971
Valerie is married to
Norman Schuettner,
Jr. and the mother of
Jill Janke and
Steven Schuettner. She worked for Waldmann Construction
for many years and was the St. Germain Town Treasurer about
thirty years. Most of
those years as town treasurer was without pay or compensation.
Sure enough, as soon as the town board voted a small salary for
the position, some area newbie ran against her, but lost.
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Gregory Seegert
Residency: Born here
Greg is a son of
Wally Seegert.
He is currently employed with Waldmann Construction and has been
for many years.
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Wally Seegert
Residency:
Late 1940's
Wally lived just this side of Sayner for decades and was
very well known in the area. He worked for
Gene Ahlborn in the Stihl distributorship for many
years. After he retired, he operated a portable popcorn wagon
at most town events.
Date deceased: 1988
Cause of Death: Complications of long-term malaria
Interment: St. Germain Cemetery
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Harold Selke
Residency: Early 1980's
Harold moved here after he retired. He was well-known and
well-liked in the area. Little else is known about Harold and
we would appreciate more information.
Date deceased: 1988
Cause of Death: Heart attack
Interment: St. Germain Cemetery
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Clarence Shannon
Residency: Unknown
Clarence was a son-in-law of Michael
Froelich and purchased
Lost Lake
Resort from him. He eventually
sold this resort to Ed Gabe
who changed the name to Ed Gabe's
Lost Lake Resort. Shannon Lake is named after Clarence.
Date deceased: Unknown
Cause of death: Unknown
Interment: Unknown
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Daniel Shay
Residency: Early 1950's
Dan is the father of John Shay, but very
little else is known about him. If anyone has information on
him, we would appreciate hearing from you.
Date deceased: 1989
Cause of death: Unknown
Interment: St. Germain Cemetery
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John Shay
Residency: Early 1950's
John is a son of
Daniel Shay.
He works for the Town of St. Germain and has done so for many
years.
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Residency: 1957
"Art” was born July 26, 1923, in
Independence, Iowa. He served in the U.S. Navy Air Corps during
World War II. In 1945, he moved to Waterloo, Iowa, where he
worked for the Des Moines Register and Tribune as a rural route
supervisor. In 1957 he moved to St. Germain
and purchased the Anderson estate on the
northwest shore of Big St. Germain Lake and built Lofty Pines
Resort and later an RV Campground.
Art was involved in the early development of our snowmobile
trails during the 1960's. He served as president of Bo-Boen
Snowmobile Club, director of District 5 for the Association of
Wisconsin Snowmobile Clubs (AWSC) and was appointed trails
coordinator. He was AWSC executive secretary and lobbyist from
1979 to 1986 and developed the Trail Patrol System in Wisconsin
and lobbied to have gas tax funds support trails. He received
the AWSC Presidents Award, was voted Snowmobiler of the Year for
1982-’83 and represented Ski-Doo as Ambassador of Snowmobiling
for three years.
When he retired, the resort and campground
were separately operated by each of his two sons,
Brian and Jim.
Date deceased: March 3, 2008
Cause of death: Unknown
Interment: Unknown
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Brian Sherren
Residency: Born here
Brian is a son of
Art Sherren,a
brother to James Sherren, and
operates Lofty Pines RV Campground on Big St. Germain Lake. He
is a past chairman of the Town Board.
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James Sherren
Residency: Born here
Jim
is a son of Art Sherren
and currently operates Lofty Pines Resort on Big St. Germain
Lake.
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Margo Sherren
Residency: Unknown
Margo is married to
Brian
Sherren and is involved with the
operations of Lofty Pines RV Campground
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John Sisson
Residency: 1902
John Sisson has a Memorial Page
John purchased
3-acres of land on Little St. Germain, about where the Little
Saint Express (St.
Germain Corner
Store)
stands. He built and operated the first Sisson's Resort here.
He continued to expand this resort and, when he sold it to E.
Perrault in 1922, it compromised 10 cottages and over 70 acres
of land.
That fall
(1922) he built and operated a new resort next to the one he
sold, which he also named Sisson's Resort. He
also served as town clerk and constable.
Date deceased: Unknown
Cause of death: Unknown
Interment: Unknown
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Robert Smith
Residency: Mid-1940's
Robert was known as
"Snuffy" and was a WW II pilot with the Flying Tigers. He
married Mary Froelich, one of Ed Froelich's daughters. He
eventually took over management of Ed Gabe's Lost Lake Resort (Lost
Lake Resort)from his
brother-in-law, Edward Gabe.
He operated Ed Gabe's for many years.
Date deceased: Unknown
Cause of death: Unknown
Interment: Unknown
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Karen Stecker
Residency: Born here
Karen is a daughter
of
Leonard Weber
and married to Larry Stecker.
She is involved with the operations of
Weber's Wildlife and Tavern.
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Larry Stecker
Residency: Unknown
Larry is
married to Karen Stecker
and has operated his own area construction business for many
years.
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Anna Steel
Residency: 1929
Anna was
married to Russell Steel, Sr. and
is the mother of Russell Steel, Jr.
Little else is known of Anna. There is some indication that she
may have been born in the area of Brule, WI.
Date deceased: 1985
Cause of death: Unknown
Interment: St. Germain Cemetery
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Russell Steel, Jr.
Residency: Born here
Russell is
a son of Russell, Sr.
and Anna Steel.
He lives in his father's house by the Big St. Germain River. He
worked as a taxidermist in the Chicago Museum of Science for
many years before returning here. He continued his taxidermy
work and a large number of his mounts are displayed in the
Vilas Historical Museum in Sayner,
WI. Russell is very conservation minded. He offered to donate
his 80-acres of wooded river front land to our town after his
death if they would make it into a nature preserve. The town
turned him down, which was no surprise. After all, we wouldn't
want to deprive some developer from buying it, chopping it into
postage stamp size lots (PSLing), and selling it to people from
Illinois at exorbitant prices.
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Russell Steel, Sr.
Residency: 1929
Russell arrived in
our St. Germain area from the Brule River area in 1929 and built
his house on the end of Burnt Bridge Road by the Big St. Germain
River. He often said that at that time fires had swept across
most of the area and he could see for miles around.
Date deceased: 1989
Cause of death: Heart problems
Interment: St. Germain Cemetery
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Glenn Steiner
Residency: Late 1970's
Glenn moved to St.
Germain after retirement from a school supplies company. He
then operated an office supply store in Eagle River for several
years.
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Ervin Stiemke
Residency: 1973
Ervin purchased and operated Stiemke's
Resort on South Bay of Little St. Germain for many years. He
also owned and operated an accounting company in Eagle River.
He and his wife,
Sandra, currently reside in Florida.
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Jarrod Stiemke
Residency: 1973
Jarrod
is a son of Ervin and
Sandra Stiemke.
He owns and operates Eagle River Cabinets
in Eagle River, WI.
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Sandra Stiemke
Residency:
1973
Known as Sandy, she is married to Ervin
Stiemke
and was involved with the operation and management of Stiemke's
Resort. She was the secretary in the
Red Brick School
for several years in the mid-1970's.
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