The La Crosse Tribune from La Crosse, Wisconsin • 11

State Obituaries Bird count discouraging, unusual Sennes, Emma Services 1 p.m. Saturday, Wilmington Lutheran Church, WUmington Township, Minn. Burial in the church cemetery. Visitation 5 to 8 p.m. today, Haugen-Roble-Jandt Funeral Home, Caledonia, and noon until services Saturday 1 in the church.

Sheldon, Ruth Hazel Miller Services 1:30 p.m. today, Hokah United Methodist Church. Burial in Mount Hope Cemetery, Hokah, Minn. Visitation one hour prior to services in the church. Memorials preferred.

Hoff, Houston, Minn. Waters, Anna Ruth Memorial services 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. United Methodist Church, Tomah. Additional service 2 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 26, Silent Assembly of God Church, Detroit, Mich. Burial in Soop Cemetery, Van Buren Township, Mich. White, Tomah. Wisland, Flavian L.

Services 2 p.m. today, Henrytown Lutheran Church, rural Canton, Minn. Burial in the church cemetery. Visitation one hour prior to services in the church. Mengis, Mabel, Minn.

ARRANGEMENTS Catholic Cemetery. Visitation noon until services in the church. Memorials preferred. Schumacher-Kish, La Crosse. Korpela, Margaret Helen Services 11 a.m.

Friday, Jan. 17, 1997, Sacred Heart Catholic Church, and burial in Maple Grove Cemetery, both Munising, Mich. Schumacher-Kish, La Crosse Bowerman, Munising. Krueger, Mary J. Services 11 a.m.

Saturday, St. Marys Catholic Church, and burial in Calvary Cemetery, both Caledonia, Minn. Visitation 4 to 8 p.m. today, with 7:30 p.m. rosary, McCormick Funeral Home, Caledonia, and one hour prior to services Saturday in the church.

Memorials preferred. Lachman Robert E. Services 11 a.m. today, St. Lukes Methodist Church.

Burial in Onalaska Cemetery. Visitation one hour prior to services in the church. Nelson-Woodruff-Blaschke, La Crosse. Lamb, Raymond LeRoy Memorial services 11 a.m. today United Methodist Church.

Burial in French Island Cemetery. Visitation 10 a.m. until services in the church. Dickinson, La Crosse. Moeller, Helen Evelyn Klippen, Services 11 a.m.

Saturday, First Lutheran Church, and burial in Park Hill Cemetery, both Duluth, Minn. Visitation 5 tcs 7 p.m. today, Jarvi-Dowd Chapel, Duluth; and 10 a.m. until services Saturday in the church. Rodd, Vieno V.

Memorial sendees 2 p.m. Saturday, Sonnenburg Family Funeral Home, Tomah. Burial in Forest Home Cemetery, Rhinelander, Wis. Visitation 1 p.m. until services Saturday in the funeral home.

Burke, Orlando C. Services 1 p.m. today, Our Redeemers Lutheran Church, La Crosse. Burial in Mormon Coulee Memorial Park. Visitation noon until services in the church.

Dickinson, La Crosse. David, Margaret Services 10:30 a.m. today, Blaschke Funeral Home, La Crosse and 11 a.m., St. James Catholic Church. Burial in Gate of Heaven Cemetery.

Desmond, Mary Simones Services 11 a.m. today. Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church. Burial in Catholic Cemetery. Visitation one hour prior to services in the church.

Memorials preferred. Schumacher-Kish, La Crosse. Elland, Florence H. Services 1:30 p.m. Saturday, First Lutheran Church and burial in Rest Haven Cemetery, both Blair.

Visitation one hour prior to services Saturday in the church. Jack, Blair. Erickson, Gwendolyn Graveside services and committal 10 a.m. today, Oak Grove Cemetery, La Crosse. Schumacher-Kish, La Crosse.

Hanson, Helen M. Services 10:30 a.m. today, SS. Peter Paul Catholic Church, Independence. Visitation 8 to 10 a.m., Edison Funeral Home, Independence.

James, Kathleen (Kathy) Hickey Services 2 p.m. Saturday, St. Marys Catholic Church, Ardmore, Okla. Burial in the church cemetery. Visitation 7 p.m.

today, Harvey-Douglas Funeral Home Chapel, Ardmore. Kitson, Rita Rose Services 1 p.m. today, St. Pius Catholic Church, La Crosse. Burial in St.

Francis of Assisi Mausoleum, AP photo Birders, from left, Kim Eckert, Uwe Kausch and Joe Harber, scan Lake Superior for waterfowl and gulls last month during the Duluth Audobon Societys annual Christmas Bird Count. Birders count how many birds they see during an eight hour period. Duluth, Minn. ap It is 7:30 a m. on the Saturday before Christmas.

Duluths Kim Eckert is up and out of the house. Like a wayward traveler, he stands in the cloudy December dawn along the North Shore Scenic Highway, looking out over Lake Superior. But Eckert is not and he knows precisely what he is looking for. A red-' breasted merganser would be nice. A bufflehead would be a bonus.

A harlequin duck well, that might be too much to hope for. It is the morning of the annual Christmas Bird Count, sponsored by the Duluth Audubon Society. Eckert is its coordinator, and he has dispatched teams of birders throughout a 15-mile diameter centered at Hawk Ridge. The same thing is happening at thousands of locales from Mexico to the Northwest Territories. Birders count how many birds they see in eight hours.

Last year, the Duluth group spotted 62 species, more than any other count in the state. But early in this years count, Eckert senses something is wrong. Signs of bird life are scarce. Even chickadees, the spunkiest and perhaps most abundant northern species in the winter, are hard to find. Boy, this is terrible, Eckert says, walking through the falling snow.

Do these counts, published in National Audubon Societys Field Notes, mean anything? Not much, Eckert says. You can use some of the data, but you have to be really careful, Eckert says. There are so many variables. The weather on the day of the count can influence totals. So can the kind of winter that has led up to the count.

Over years of observations, though, the counts can show how birds are Cheesehead hats might be fictitious but still good PR Ruth M. Youngman SPARTA, Wis. Ruth Nl. Youngman, 76, of Sparta, died Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 7, 1997 at the Franciscan Skemp Healthcare Facility Nursing Home, Sparta.

She is survived by one sister, Mrs. Muffy (Edward) Dwyer of Sparta; nieces, Margaret (Michael) Bailey and Rosemary (Randy) Johnson, both of Sparta, and Ruth Ann (Harry) Gore of North Carolina; and a nephew, David (Joan) Dwyer of Madison. A private service was held Thursday at the Franciscan Skemp Healthcare Facility Chapel, Sparta. The Page-Smith Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Roseann Donna Maxwell BLACK RIVER FALLS, Wis.

Roseann Donna NlaXwell, 60, of Barrington Hills, 111., died unexpectedly Tuesday, Jan. 7, 1997 while visiting at the home of her daughter, Lisa Maxwell of Black River Falls. Memorial services were Thursday, Jan. 9 from Community Christian Church, Black River Falls. Funeral services will be 11 a.m.

Saturday from Cuneo-Columbian Funeral Home, Franklin Park, 111. Burial will be in St. Josephs Cemetery, Chicago. The Buswell Funeral Home, Black River Falls, was in charge of local arrangements. Gwen Harrison SPARTA, Wis.

Gwen I. Harrison, 97, of Sparta, died Wednesday, Jan. 8, 1997 in Franciscan Skemp Healthcare Nursing Home, Sparta. Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. today in the Franciscan Skemp Healthcare chapel.

Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery, Sparta. Friends may call from 9:30 to 10:15 a.m. at the Lanham-Kann Funeral Home, Sparta. Glenn Gilbertson WARRENS, Wis. Glenn C.

Gilbertson, 75, of R. 1 Warrens, died Wednesday, Jan. 8, 1997 in Tomah Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be noon today in the Ninneman-Steele Funeral Home, Tomah. Burial will be in Warren-Mills Cemetery.

Friends may call from 10 a.m. until the time of services at the funeral home. Elizabeth Betty Ileinen TOMAH, Wis. Elizabeth Ann Betty Heinen, 64, of Tomah, died Thursday, Jan. 9, 1997 in her home.

Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Saturday in the White Funeral Home, Tomah. Burial will be in La Grange Cemetery. Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. today and from 1 p.m.

until the time of services Saturday, both at the funeral home. Victor Parr ONTARIO, Wis. Victor Parr, 82, of Ontario, died Wednesday, Jan. 8, 1997 in Vernon Memorial Hospital, Viroqua. Funeral services will be 1:30 p.m.

Saturday in Community Baptist Church, and burial will be in Hilltop Rest Cemetery, both in Ontario. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. today at the Torkelson Funeral Home, Ontario; and from 12:30 p.m. until the time of services Saturday at the church. i Loretta W.

Fehrer Loretta W. Fehrer, 83, formerly of 3301 Cliffside Drive, La Crosse, died Wednesday, January 8, 1997 at Bethany St. Joseph Care Center. She was born November 15, 1913 in Chaseburg, to Rudolph and Mathilda (Dummer) Schlicht. She worked as a telephone switchboard operator at Chaseburg and during World War II she was an operator at Camp McCoy.

After the war she held the same position at Sears, La Crosse, and later at Trane Co. Loretta married Gerhard Neprud on April 24, 1971 and they lived at Westby and Coon Valley. He died in 1982. In 1986 she married Conrad Fehrer and they moved to La Crosse. He died in 1993.

She is survived by her stepdaughter, Rosmond (Dan) Niamey of Madison, one brother, Arnold (Alida) Schlicht of La Crosse; a niece, Laura (Roger) Barnes of La Crosse; two grandnieces, Christen Barnes of La Crosse and Carrie Barnes of Milwaukee; a dearly beloved great-grandnephew, Zachary Barnes; cousins; and a host of friends. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday, January 13, 1997 at St. Peters Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chaseburg, Rev. Lyle Schalow officiating, with burial in the church cemetery.

Friends may call at the Seland Funeral Chapel in Coon Valley bn Sunday evening from 5 to 7 p.m. and at the church Monday from 12:30 p.m. until the time of services. Irene IL Young WEST SALEM, Wis. Irene H.

Young, 101, of West Salem, formerly of La Crosse, died Monday, January 6, 1997 at Mulder Health Care Facility, West Salem. She was born May 24, 1895 in Oskaloosa, Iowa, to John and Ida (Fulmer) Miller. She married Frank W. Young on April 25, 1922 in Des Moines, Iowa, and he preceded her in death. Irene w'as a member and past-matron of Ruth Chapter 23 Order of the Eastern Star.

Survivors include a granddaughter, Kris Ann (Steven) Bjerke-UUiman of Victoria, Texas; and a son-in-law, LaVerne D. Bjerke of W'est Salem. In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by a daughter, Ruth Ann Bjerke; two brothers; and five sisters. Funeral services will be Saturday, January 11 at 11 a.m. from Bells Coulee Lutheran Church.

Pastor Ron Nowland and Intern Pastor Kris Ann Bjerke-UUiman will officiate. Burial will be in Mormon Coulee Memorial 'Park Cemetery. Friends may call at Jostad-Jandt Funeral Home, West Salem, today from 6 to 8 p.m. and at the church on Saturday from 10 a.m. until the time of service.

Laura Erickson, a Duluth ornithologist helping with the count, later said she was discouraged by the low numbers of some species. There were way fewer birds than Ive ever had in my area, and Ive been doing it for 15 years, she said. From what Ive been reading on the Internet, its pretty widespread, Erickson said. It just makes me very sad. Were not going to have this instant silent spring.

Its just going to be quieter and quieter until nobody notices when it fades out. At intervals, Eckert scans Lake Superior with his top-of-the-line binoculars. He spots a couple of goldeneyes bobbing on the lake, and Eckert tallies them. But hes disappointed. Too bad, he says.

We could have used a merganser. The desire to spot a variety of species is partly due to competition with other birders around the state to see who spots the most. But the birders dream is to spot something unusual. The night before the count, take some research, Umhoefer said. (Actually, not even the cheddar orange part is correct, since the orange-color must be added when the cheddar is being made.

Real cheddar will be pale yellow.) The easiest way to make real cheese in the form of the foam-hat cheesehead would be to add color to the Swiss cheese-making process, said Umhoefer, who represents the states 140 cheese plants. (There are about 2,000 licensed cheese makers in Wisconsin.) While Wisconsin cheese makers may privately question the authenticity and propriety of the cheesehead phenomenon, no one is complaining about publicity. It is free advertising. Although it does often go down with a smile or a smirk, it is millions of dollars in awareness advertising, said Umhoefer. Any time you reinforce the fact that this is the dairy state, it is a positive, he said.

Even if the cheesehead-wearer is drunk and nearly naked on national television? What did Bamum say? Just spell the name right? said Umhoefer. The cheese makers leave the cheese public relations to the experts at the Milk Marketing Board, which has a big budget and big-time marketers pushing wedgies nationwide. They are pretty good at that of missing 3 to 4 feet of snow on the ground in the marshy area, Maj. Denis Shields said Thursday evening. The terrain is very difficult.

The whole wreckage probably cant be seen without some searching. Col. Ken Stromquist, commander of the 148th Fighter Wing in Duluth, said the swamps werent frozen solid because heavy snow early in the season had insulated them. The crash site was being secured and an Air Force accident investigation team was Erickson later said, you start imagining all the wonderful things youre going to see, and your secret spots where youre going to see a bird that nobody else is going to see that day. Ericksons group finds a harlequin duck at the mouth of the Lester River.

Eckerts best find is a Harris sparrow, which is supposed to be south and west of Duluth by now. Birding is like hunting, without the shooting. It requires working the fringes of the day, rising early and pushing the afternoon light. And birders are rewarded at random moments by something beautiful or unusual. For some, it may have been the 12 mallards and two blackducks loafing on the ice of the French River.

The winter light slanting over Lake Superior had tinged the lakeshore amber. The light illuminated the iridescent feathers of the drakes green heads. On Eckerts tally sheet they might have been Mallards f2, Blackducks 2, but they were as good a reason as anyone would ever need to go birding all day on the Saturday before Christmas. kind of stuff, said Umhoefer. We kind of rely on them for the real glitz.

So you may see television commentator John Madden in a cheddar fedora Sunday. Sound far-fetched? Dream on, whey-breath. A memo Thursday from the state Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection details how the state and the governor intend to cash in on the national exposure. The governor will attend a Packer Fan Club tailgate party, where state officials hope to present Madden with a cheesehead that has been stamped with the Wisconsin dairy seal. Also, the memo said, officials will create a banner to be placed in the stadium.

The location would be given to Fox producers so the banner could be shot during the game. Alice in Dairyland will be at the game equipped with a stamp that she will use to attach the Real Cheese stamp to fans cheesehead apparel. (Though, ironically, that kind of cheese does not exist.) All this and the rumored state-paid appearance of the Moola Sisters, who dressed up as Holstein cows and gained fame promoting a state lottery game, ought to put Wisconsin back on the cultural map. Way back. George Hesselberg is a reporter for the Wisconsin State Journal F-1 6 found expected to arrive Friday, Shields said.

The F-16 disappeared during routine training exercises Tuesday evening. Helicopters from the Minnesota guard and the State Patrol and an airplane from the Wisconsin Air National Guard aided in the search. The missing pilot was identified as Maj. Peter M. Woodbury, 38, of Duluth.

Woodbury is a full-time pilot for Northwest Airlines and was described as one of the most experienced fliers in the 148th. Vivian Oliver LA CROSSEVIOLA, Wis. Vivian 1. Oliver, age 74, of La Crosse and formerly of Viola and Nlillston, died Thursday, January 9, 1997 at Franciscan Skemp Medical Center, La Crosse. She was born November 12, 1922 in Vernon County to Charles Nathan and Freda (Coleman) Campbell.

She graduated from La Farge High School in 1942 and the Vernon County Normal School in 1944. She taught in West Lima and Bangor area schools. She as united in marriage to Kenneth Chadwick on December 15, 1944 and they farmed in the Viola area. Kenneth died on December 26, 1959. On June 10, 1968 Vivian married Jack Oliver and he preceded her in death in November of 1977.

Vivian worked at OBrien Brothers in Richland Center and while living in Nlillston was employed at Grandma Smrekars Restaurant for many years. She has lived in La Crosse since 1987. Vivian is survived by one daughter, Sandra Chadwick of La Crosse; her mother, Freda Campbell of Viroqua; two grandchildren, SPC Marcia Chadwick of Fort Mead, and Nathan Lueth of La Crosse; two great-grandchildren. Jasmine Chadwick of Fort Mead, and Jordan Sparks-Lueth of La Crosse; one sister, Betty (Wayne) Peck of Viola; and two brothers, Robert (Kathleen) Campbell of Belleville, and Keith Campbell of Richland Center. In addition to her husbands, she was pfeceded in death by her father; two sons in infancy; one daughter, Wendy Lueth on September 1, 1996; one brother, Charles Campbell; and one sister, Joyce Hauge.

The funeral service for Vivian will be held on Saturday, January 11, 1997 at 12 noon at the Henthorn Memorial Center in Viola. Pastor Doris Richardson Clark will officiate, with burial at a later date in the Viola Cemetery. Visitation will be held after 1 1 a.m. at the Center on Saturday. The Larson Funeral Home of Viroqua is assisting the family.

Vincent W. Dick Troyanek Vincent W. Dick Troyanek, 85, of La Crosse, died on Wednesday, January 8, 1997 peacefully at his home. He was born in La Crosse on July 19, 191 1 to John V. and Elizabeth A.

(Jansen) Troyanek. He married Charlotte Kohn in 1928. Dick had worked at Electric Auto Lite of La Crosse and the John Torrance Company before his retirement. He was a 60-year member of the Order of the Eagles Aerie 1254 of La Crosse. He is survived by his wife, Charlotte; two daughters, Dyanne M.

(Jim) Horn of Scottsdale, Arizona, and Joan E. Novak of Baxter, Minnesota; two sons, John G. (Karen) Troyanek and William T. (Sally) Troyanek, both of La Crosse; one sister, Beverly M. Olson of Onalaska; 1 1 grandchildren; and 12 greatgrandchildren.

Memorial services will be held at 6 p.m. today at the Schumacher-Kish Funeral Home of La Crosse. The Rev. John McHugh will officiate. There will be no visitation.

Burial will be at a later date. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorials be given. I By GEORGE HESSELBERG Lee Newspapers Those five bare-chested Packer backers who get their green (and blue) tummies on television Sunday might be wearing orangish wedges that look like cartoon cheese, but there is no such cheese. Shoppers joke about it when they come in, said Andy Hartlaub, proprietor of Cheddarheads on State Street in Madison. It looks like cheddar but it has holes like Swiss cheese, we know that.

We just call it a cheddar head, he said. That wont stop the state from trying to cash in big time on the exposure, which is just fine for such groups as the states cheese makers. Bob Umhoefer, director of the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association, who does not own a cheesehead hat, said any publicity is good publicity, even if the cheese depicted does not exist. Yes, they seem to have created a hybrid, which may have some market potential, joked Umhoefer. The hybrid would be difficult, he added, since the two cheeses evolve from different bugs, or cultures, which is what is added to a vat of milk to make the different types of cheeses.

Putting eyes, or the holes you see in Swiss, into cheddar would Wreckage TWO HARBORS, Minn. (AP) An evacuation team was searching through the night at the site of a Minnesota Air National Guard fighter jet crash in an attempt to locate the pilot, the guard said. The wreckage, including the jet engine and a piece of the plane, was spotted by a Coast Guard helicopter Thursday morning on the eastern edge of Greenwood Lake, about 35 miles north of Two Harbors. The search is being hampered by darkness. There is i hum.