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FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 2014
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Obituaries
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Jerome ‘Jerry’ Reising — Rochester
Robert F. ‘Bob’ Jerred — Kasson
Jerome “Jerry” Reising, 73, of Rochester, died Wednesday,
Jan. 22, 2014, at home after a lengthy illness.
Jerry was born July 31, 1940, in St. Paul and
grew up in South St Paul. He was the son of
Leonard Reising and Ruth (Hill) Reising Jacobs. He graduated from Cretin High School in
St. Paul and from the University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, with a degree in journalism and
photography. On June 1, 1963, he married Diane
Ellingson in South St. Paul. They celebrated
their 50th anniversary last year.
Jerry worked for the Dakota County Tribune
weekly newspaper and for the St. Paul Pioneer
Reising
Press before coming to Rochester in January
1966 to join the Rochester Post-Bulletin as a
reporter.
He advanced steadily through the ranks in the newsroom,
moving up to area editor and then city editor before taking over
the launch of the Post-Bulletin’s weekly, Successful Business,
which was later renamed Business Today. He also planned and
edited the Post-Bulletin’s quarterly’s Home & Lifestyle magazine
in the 1980s and 1990s.
He taught journalism classes at Rochester Community and
Technical College. At the Post-Bulletin, he regularly taught an
English usage course as part of the employee continuing education program.
In 1987, he was honored by the Small Business Administration
as the Minnesota Small Business Advocate of the year for his
work with Business Today.
At the time of his retirement in 2007, he was special sections
editor, in charge of developing editorial content for a wide range
of special pages and sections published with the daily paper.
He was a member of St. Francis Catholic Church for 48 years
and on the board of directors of Rochester’s Channel One Food
Bank for several years.
Jerry befriended refugees from the Congo, Cambodia and
Bosnia and welcomed them to their newly adopted country, community, his home and his heart. He helped them learn how to
drive and shared many a meal while helping them polish up on
their English.
In his spare time, he enjoyed building and flying radiocontrolled model airplanes, woodworking, music, cooking and
baking. His biggest project, though, has been the remodeling
and updating of the couple’s century-old home.
Jerry and Diane have traveled extensively, vacationing in
Mexico, Hawaii, Costa Rica, England and Norway as well as
Belize.
Survivors include his wife, Diane; two sons, Joseph (Judy), a
professor and interim associate dean at Minnesota State University, Mankato, of North Mankato, and Daniel, a student, of Rochester; one daughter, Maria (Paul) Buehler, advertising account
director, of Phoenixville, Pa.; three grandchildren, Jacob and
Benjamin Goldblatt and Ian Buehler, all of Phoenixville, Pa.;
one sister, Nancy Galatowitsch of Merrifield; and one brother,
Kenneth (Peggy) of Hawaii.
He was preceded in death by his parents and an infant daughter, Angel.
Memorial Mass will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 1, at St.
Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Rochester, with Father
Mark McNea officiating, and Father Paul Nelson co-officiating.
Visitation will be for one hour prior to the service at the church.
Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery in Rochester.
In lieu of flowers, memorials are preferred to Channel One,
131 35th St. S.E., Rochester, MN 55904, channel-one.org, or the
donor’s choice.
Macken Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Online
condolences are welcome at mackenfuneralhome.com.
Robert F. “Bob” Jerred, 88, of Kasson, died Monday, Jan. 20,
2014, at his home in Kasson.
Bob was born Sept. 12, 1925, in Chester,
Iowa, on the family farm, to Elias and Alma
(Gelhar) Jerred. He was raised on the family
farm and started his career with the railroad
at a young age. He served in the U.S. Marine
Corps during World War II, including time in
the Pacific Theater, from 1943 to 1945. After his
discharge, he returned to work for the Milwaukee Railroad, and later worked for the Soo Line
Railroad as a locomotive engineer, retiring in
1986. He married Joyce Ann Hale on Nov. 29,
Jerred
1952, in Northwood, Iowa. The couple lived in
Minneapolis before moving to Pine City. After
Bob’s retirement, the couple moved to Mission,
Texas, for 15 years before moving to Kasson in
2001.
He enjoyed feeding and watching the wildlife
in his backyard, gardening, woodworking and traveling with
his wife in their motorhome. Bob was a member of the Kasson
American Legion.
Survivors include three daughters, Robin (David) Evans of
Minneapolis, Kim (Casey) Kozisek of Pine City and Jackie
(Brian) McConnon of Inver Grove Heights; his son, Jay Jerred;
grandchildren, Jaime (Jeremy) Wuori, Casey Kozisek, Jr.,
and Maria and Jenna Ammerman; his great-grandson, Mikko
Wuori; two sisters, Dawn (Julius) Munt of Robbinsdale and
Beatrice Hansen of Rochester.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Joyce, who died Nov.
10, 2013, his son, Kent and his sisters, Violet Jacobson, Gladys
Fortney and Hazel Eng.
Private family services will be held at a later date.
Mahn Family Funeral Home ‑ Rochester Chapel is assisting
the family with arrangements.
Lois J. Hays — Austin
Lois J. Hays, 91, of Austin, died Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014, at
Seasons Hospice in Rochester.
Lois Janet Ryan was born March 9, 1922, in
Dover Township, Olmsted County, the daughter
of Joseph and Celia (Pearce) Ryan. She attended school in the Whitewater Valley area and
was married to Clifford Eugene Hays on May
27, 1946, at the First United Methodist Church
in Austin. Lois worked in food service at Austin
High School for many years, retiring as the
head cook.
Lois was a member of the First United Methodist Church. She had many hobbies, including
Hays
knitting and ceramics. She was a great cook,
and she and Cliff loved to garden and can the
produce. They had traveled throughout the lower 48 states and
liked to dance.
Lois was preceded in death by her husband, Clifford and
brothers, Earl Glen and Lyle Ryan.
She is survived by a daughter and son-in-law, Sandy (Hays)
and Jon Romer, Cass Lake; sons and daughters-in-law, Randy
and Cheryl Hays, Austin and Chad and Cheri Hays, Stewartville; grandchildren, Anders Romer and Kristin Klapste, Kirstin
Romer, Tanya Hays and Jason Kearns, Lisa and Eric Feuchtenberger, Christal Hays and Jean Braam, Jason Hays, Joe and
Ali Hays and Bridget Hays; great-grandchildren, Kalvin Hays,
Landon Kearns, Meika Hays-Kearns, Ava Feuchtenberger and
Ila Feuchtenberger; sisters, Lorraine Kroening, St. Charles,
Carol Coe, Rochester and Rita (Dave) Hengel, Rochester; and
nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 25, at
the First United Methodist Church, with the Rev. Marilee A.
James A. “Jim” Schell, 65, of Rollingstone, died Tuesday, Jan. Benson officiating. Interment will be at Oakwood Cemetery.
21, 2014, at his home, after a short battle with cancer surrounded
Visitation will be from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, Jan, 24, at
by his family.
the Clasen-Jordan Mortuary, and on Saturday morning at the
Jim was born Jan. 5, 1949, in Wabasha, to
church for one hour before the service.
John and Neola (Paine) Schell. He graduated
from Holy Trinity School in 1966. He then
served in the U.S. Army, stationed in Korea
during the Vietnam War. Jim and Sharol
Kalmes were married July 12, 1969, in Altura.
They made their home in Rollingstone. Jim
Harold Charles Cutshall, 82, of Liberty, Mo., formerly of
was a loving husband, father and grandfather.
Rochester, died Tuesday. According to his wishes, he is being
He worked for Garnac Grain, ADM and later
cremated and will be buried at Riverside National Cemetery,
Winona River and Rail, C.H.S. until his illness
Riverside, Calif. Church-Archer-Pasley Funeral Home, Liberty, Mo.
Schell
forced him to retire this fall. In his work, he
Robert Fitch, Jr., 47, of Pine Island, died Wednesday. Ranfranz
loved to design and fabricate equipment. He
and Vine Funeral Homes, Rochester.
was a designer at heart.
Jim “Jimmy” was an avid and well known
Leo J. Graner, 85, of Wabasha, formerly of Hastings and earlier,
stock car race driver for many years; racing
Kellogg, died today at his home at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center
at Fountain City, Kasson, St. Charles and West
Assisted Living Apartments in Wabasha. Abbott Funeral Home,
Salem. He loved to work and play at the river, spending time at
Wabasha.
Bass Camp and being on the river.
Robert F. “Bob” Jerred, 88, of Kasson, died Monday at his
He is survived by his wife, Sheri; two children, Tara (Greg)
home. Private family services will be held at a later date. Mahn
Parnow of Fountain City and Jamie (Anne Conway) Schell of
Family Funeral Home-Rochester Chapel.
Winona; four grandchildren, Harlee, Hannah and Hope Parnow
and Silas Schell; five siblings, Sandy (Tom) Hengel of RollingAlice Meyers, 70, of LeRoy, died Wednesday at St Mark’s
stone, Mary (Reeve) Kahabka of Gilbert, Ariz., Jack Schell of
Lutheran Home in Austin, where she has resided for several years.
Florida, Ed (Beverly) Schell of Winona and Bill (Rhonda) Schell
Memorial service will be 11 a.m. Saturday at the LeRoy Lutheran
of Rollingstone.
Church. Hindt Funeral Home, LeRoy.
He was preceded in death by his parents, John and Neola and
Leonard H. Miller, 79, of Rochester, died today at Golden
a brother, Richard.
Living
Center East in Rochester. Macken Funeral Home, Rochester.
A funeral Mass will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 25, at
Merlin “Dick” Rengstorf, 86, of Rochester, died Thursday at his
Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Rollingstone, with the Rev. William Kulas officiating. Burial will be in the spring at St. Mary’s
home. Macken Funeral Home, Rochester.
Cemetery in Minnieska.
James A. “Jim” Schell, 65, of Rollingstone, died Tuesday at
Friends may call at the church from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. today, Jan.
his home of cancer. A funeral Mass will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at
24, and one hour before services at the church on Saturday.
Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Rollingstone. Hoff Funeral Home &
Please share a memory of Jim online and view his tribute
Cremation Service, Winona.
video when it becomes available at hofffuneral.com.
Ruth Schoenfelder, 72, of Stewartville, died today at Mayo
Memorials are preferred in lieu of flowers.
Clinic Hospital-Rochester, Saint Marys Campus. Hindt Funeral
Jim’s wishes are for his funeral to be a non-formal event with
Home, Grand Meadow.
blue jeans and a shirt.
James A. ‘Jim’ Schell — Rollingstone
Notices of death
Alice Meyers — LeRoy
Memorial service for Alice Meyers will be held at 11 a.m.
Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014, at the LeRoy Lutheran Church, with the
Rev. Herman Bakker officiating. Burial of the
cremated remains will take place in the LeRoy
Lutheran Cemetery in the spring. Visitation
will be held for one hour prior to the service at
the church.
Alice Meyers, 70, of LeRoy, died Wednesday,
Jan. 22, 2014, at St Mark’s Lutheran Home in
Austin, where she has resided for several years.
Alice Sybil Meyers was born Dec. 26, 1943,
to Melvin and Fern (Halling) Meyers. She was
baptized and confirmed in the LeRoy Lutheran
Meyers
Church and graduated from LeRoy High School
in 1961. After graduation, she lived and worked
in Rochester, before moving back to LeRoy because of health
problems. Alice moved to St Mark’s Lutheran Home in Austin,
where she resided until her death.
She is survived by three sisters, Marsha (Steve) Sorenson
of Ostrander, Pat Ricks of Hudson, Iowa and Mary Meyers of
LeRoy; one brother, Dave (Shelley) Meyers of Eyota; and several
nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, one brother, Kent
and two brothers-in-law, Kenneth Dimler and Dale Ricks.
Condolences may be left at Hindtfuneralhomes.com.
REMEMBRANCE
P-B file photo
City Editor Jerry Reising, right, goes over page proofs with Production Editor Joe Long in this photo from the early 1980s.
P-B journalist
‘tried to get
everything straight’
By Matthew Stolle
[email protected]
Jerry Reising was an oldstyle journalist who saw a
reporter’s first duty to tell it
like it is.
And during his 41 years at
the Rochester Post-Bulletin,
as a reporter, area editor and
news editor, he never stopped
caring about the product that
kept Rochester informed. On
Wednesday, Reising died at
his home. He was 73.
“He was straightforward
and didn’t embroider things,”
said Jack Erwin, who served
alongside Reising on the P-B
city desk. “He just tried to get
everything straight.”
Reising worked for the
Dakota County Tribune
weekly newspaper and for the
St. Paul Pioneer Press before
moving to Rochester on Jan.
28, 1966, heading south in an
unheated truck when it was
28 below zero.
He progressed steadily
through the ranks in the
newsroom. By the time he
became city editor, his knowledge of Rochester’s history,
both its accomplishments and
skeletons, made him something of a walking travelogue
for reporters.
Mike Dougherty, a former
reporter and city editor for
the P-B, recalled the “great
institutional knowledge” that
Reising possessed and was eager to share when he arrived
at the P-B in the early 1990s.
One day, Dougherty and several other new reporters piled
into Reising’s car for a tour of
the city.
As they drove around
Rochester, Reising would talk
about the stories that had
dominated the newspaper’s
front pages for the last three
decades: the political battles
that erupted over the Federal
Medical Center, the growth
and development of the city
after the arrival of IBM, and
the city’s crimes and dirty
laundry.
“He would give you the
landmarks that maybe if you
spent time digging through
clip files, you might come
across this or that,” Dougherty recalled. “He was telling
you the stuff that would help
(a young reporter) in the long
run.”
Reising was also a stickler
for accuracy. Nothing drove
him battier than a reporter
who didn’t know the differ-
Man pleads not guilty to assault
By Kay Fate
[email protected]
A Rochester man accused of assaulting his friend has pleaded not
guilty to multiple charges.
Rickey Maddox,
54, entered the
pleas Tuesday in
Olmsted County
District Court,
where he’s been
charged with
second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon
and two counts of
Maddox
stalking and terroristic threats, all
felonies. He also faces one count of
fourth-degree damage to property,
a misdemeanor.
Maddox remains in custody in
lieu of $50,000 conditional bond.
His next court appearance has not
been set.
The charges stem from an incident about 11:45 a.m. Dec. 28, when
a 57-year-old man told police that
Maddox waited for him to leave his
apartment in the 100 block of 16th
Street Southeast. When the man
walked outside, Maddox threatened him with a knife, then threw
a chair at him, striking him in the
face, the report says.
Maddox left the scene, but was
arrested a short time later; according to the report, he had a knife
with him. Maddox allegedly told
police that the victim’s girlfriend
had “disrespected” him at the post
office.
Maddox also kicked doors and
walls in the interview room at the
law enforcement center, causing
damage, the report says.
ence between cement and
concrete. Occasionally, he
would bellow his chastisements across the newsroom,
but more often than not, he
would get up from his chair,
given the paper a little shake
and sidle up to the offending
reporter’s desk.
“He would kind of come
over and go, ‘Say, I don’t think
this is right here,’” Dougherty said. “Often he was more
subtle with it. It didn’t have to
be a big drama.”
Reising also presided
over the launch of the P-B’s
business weekly, Successful
Business, which later became
Business Today. He also
planned and edited the P-B’s
quarterly Home & Lifestyle
magazine in the 1980s and
‘90s. In 1985, he became special sections editor.
His pastimes, he once said,
were keeping his century-old
house from falling down. But
in fact, Reising was a skilled
carpenter, frequently helping co-workers with home
improvement projects. He
enjoyed woodworking, playing with his radio-controlled
airplanes, playing music, baking and entertaining.
He taught journalism
classes at Rochester Community and Technical College. In
1987, he was named Minnesota Small Business Media
Advocate of the Year for his
work with Business Today by
the Small Business Administration.
But it was the process of
reporting the news that never
ceased to amaze Reising.
“The Post-Bulletin has
changed a lot in the last 40
years,” Reising said shortly
before his retirement from
the P-B. “And it is still a daily
miracle to find the finished
product at my door every day.
It’s been an interesting job,
and I never get bored.”
Reising grew up in South
St. Paul. A graduate of Cretin
High School in St. Paul, he
graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree
in journalism and photography. He and his wife, Diane,
have three children.
The funeral will be Feb. 1
at 11 a.m. at St. Francis of
Assisi Church in Rochester.
Visitation will be one hour
prior to the Mass. Memorials should go to the Channel
One food shelf or the donor’s
choice of charity.
Man safe after car
ends up on Silver Lake
By Kay Fate
[email protected]
A 25-year-old Rochester man escaped injury
early today after the car he was driving ended
up on Silver Lake.
According to the police report, the man was
traveling in the 1200 block of Silver Lake Drive
when he apparently lost control of the vehicle,
hit a utility pole and slid onto the ice.
The ice was thick enough to prevent the car
from breaking through, said Capt. John Sherwin, and the car was pulled off safely.
There were no injuries in the incident, which
was reported about 3 a.m.
The man was cited for misdemeanor DUI,
Sherwin said.