OBITUARIES
John Cirolini
Feb 10, 2018
John C. Cirolini, age 89 of Ironwood, died Saturday, Feb. 10th, 2018, in Ironwood. He was born April 4 th , 1928, in Ironwood, son of the late Rudolph and Lucia (Pedergnana) Cirolini.     John attended Ironwood schools. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II, as a hospital guard in the Pacific, and he received the World War...
Sandra Mattson
Feb 7, 2018
Sandra Jean Mattson, 78, Ironwood, Michigan, passed away at 12:21 a.m. on Wednesday, February 7, 2018 at Franciscan St. Francis Hospital in Indianapolis. Â Â Â She was born on Friday, February 17, 1939 in Reed City, Michigan, to the late Ora Asa and Goldie Almeda (Richert) Borton. She married the love of her life, Reino Leonard Mattson on June 30, 1956. They...
Marilyn Cerasoli
Jan 30, 2018
Marilyn Ruth Cerasoli, 92 of Ironwood, died on Tuesday, January 30, 2018 in Ironwood. She was born December 21, 1925 in Ironwood, MI, the daughter of the late Charles and Nan (Larson) Gustafson. Â Â Â Â Marilyn attended A.L. Norrie Grade School and graduated from the Luther L. Wright High School with the class of 1943. On November 23, 1950 she was united...
Tracy Niehaus
Jan 28, 2018
Tracy Lynn (Corbley) Niehaus, age 45, of Mercer, Wisconsin, passed away on January 28, 2018. Tracy was born on February 10, 1972 in Joliet, Illinois to James and Sandra (Pierson) Corbley. Â Â Â Â She was a graduate of Hurley High School. She later graduated from Northland College with a Bachelor''s degree in Education. Â Â Â Â On May 21, 2005 she was united in marriage...
David Carlson
Jan 20, 2018
David Raymond Carlson, 78, of Maplewood, Minn., passed away on Saturday, January 20, 2018 at St. John''s Hospital in Maplewood. He was born Sept. 3, 1939, in Ironwood Mich., the son of the late August and Ethel (Lindstrom) Carlson. David graduated from Luther L. Wright High School in Ironwood, with the class of 1957. He served in the U.S. Army...
Charles Smith
Jan 16, 2018
Charles Duane Smith, 36 of Ironwood, passed away on Tuesday, January 16, 2018 in Ironwood. He was born April 28, 1981, the son of the late Duane and Shirley (Olson) Smith. He was united in marriage to Tiffany Dawn Wiemerslage on February 12, 2009 in Bessemer. Charles was currently employed at Ironwood Plastics where he worked since 2002. He enjoyed...
Mark Ramuta
Jan 14, 2018
Mark J. Ramuta, 59, of Menomonee Falls, WI, passed away unexpectedly on Sunday, January 14, 2018 in Hurley. He was born March 31, 1958 in Milwaukee, WI, the son of William and Marlene (Plummer) Ramuta. Arrangements are pending
Judith Barbacovi
Jan 12, 2018
Judith D. "Annie" Barbacovi, 71, of Bessemer, passed away unexpectedly on Friday, January 12, 2018 in Wausau, WI. She was born May 24, 1946 in Wakefield, MI, and was the daughter of the late Sidney and Mary (Wuorinen) Barringer. Judy graduated from Wakefield High School with the Class of 1964. She was a devoted mother and grandmother; her world revolved...
Thomas Wasley
Jan 11, 2018
Thomas (Tom) G. Wasley, 94, passed away peacefully on Thursday, January 11, 2018. Tom was born in Ironwood on July 31, 1923, to Etta (Jacobson) and Thomas Wasley. Tom graduated from Luther L. Wright High School with the class of 1941 and was a lifelong resident of Ironwood. During high school Tom rode his bike across town to work at...
Bertha Saari
Jan 10, 2018
Bertha Lillian Saari, 96, passed away on Wednesday, January 10, 2018. Bertha was born April 8, 1921, in Ironwood, to Erick and Fanny (Rajala) Haanpaa, the eldest of eleven children. She married William Saari in 1938, he preceded her in death in 1966. Bertha is survived by her two sons, William of San Francisco, and Robert (Fleurette) of Crystal Falls;...
Mary Milakovich
Jan 10, 2018
Mary Helen Milakovich died peacefully on the morning of Wednesday, January 10, 2018, at the Villa Maria Health and Rehabilitation Center in Hurley, Wisconsin. The former Mary Helen McMinn, daughter of the late Josephine (Yankosky) and Francis McMinn, was born August 17, 1925, in Bessemer, Michigan, and graduated from A.D. Johnston High School in 1943. She married the late Nick...
