{"id":3102,"date":"2017-06-22T14:48:57","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T19:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/?p=3102"},"modified":"2017-06-24T10:17:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-24T15:17:53","slug":"ethel-lorenz-eastman-wisconsin-june-22-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/2017\/06\/ethel-lorenz-eastman-wisconsin-june-22-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethel Lorenz, Eastman, Wisconsin, June 22, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Ethel Lorenz, 95, of Eastman, Wisconsin died Thursday, June 22, 2017 <\/strong>at Sannes Skogdalen Heim Nursing Home in Soldiers Grove, Wisconsin.\u00a0 Ethel Irene, the daughter of Harrison and Nettie (Kramer) Matti, was born June 15, 1922 in Bloomington, Wisconsin. Ethel was baptized and confirmed at the Methodist Church in Bloomington.\u00a0 She attended the Sioux Coulee Rural School and graduated from Prairie du Chien High School in 1940.\u00a0 While attending high school, to earn her room and board, Ethel was a nanny for the Steiner family in Prairie du Chien.\u00a0 After her graduation, Ethel worked in Madison, Wisconsin until she met Joseph Lorenz.<\/p>\n

Joe and Ethel were united in marriage on December 27, 1944.\u00a0 To this union, four sons were born.\u00a0 Ethel and Joe lived in Prairie du Chien before moving to a farm near Eastman, Wisconsin.\u00a0 Ethel helped Joe farm and run a milk route.\u00a0 She then started working for National Decorative Metals. After that business closed, she worked for McGregor Electronics for several years and then she worked for Advanced Transformer in Boscobel, Wisconsin.\u00a0 She retired in 1992.<\/p>\n

In her retirement, Ethel published the book \u201cA History of the One Room Schoolhouses of Crawford County\u201d while working with the Historical Society.\u00a0 She loved geneology and had traced her Matti family history back to Switzerland.<\/p>\n

Ethel was fiercely loyal to her family often supporting them and their sporting events.\u00a0 She also loved hosting her grandchildren on the farm during the summer months.\u00a0 She was an avid gardener, a lifelong blood donor, and collector of plates of all the states she had visited.\u00a0 She referred to her farm as \u201cmy beautiful little corner of Wisconsin\u201d and woe to the odd varmint that crossed her path.<\/p>\n

Ethel is survived by her sons, Gari (Jayne Prew) Lorenz of Wauzeka, Wisconsin; Mark Lorenz of Ferryville, Wisconsin; Robert Lorenz of Wauzeka, Wisconsin; and Larry (Pamela) Lorenz of Eastman, Wisconsin; four grandchildren, Michael (Amy Gordon), Nicholas, and Matthew Lorenz; and Katie (Seth) Adams; six great grandchildren, Alissa, Nathan, Samual, Gage, Taryn, and Pilot; two brothers, H. Neil Matti of Gillette, Wyoming; and Sherwood (Donna) Matti of Eastman, Wisconsin; two sisters-in-law, Anne Matti of Cedarburg, Wisconsin; and Marion Taylor of Bloomington, Wisconsin; brother-in-law, Jim Peterson of Medford, Wisconsin; and numerous nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n

Ethel was preceded in death by her husband, Joseph; who died in 1973; her parents; one sister, Leila Peterson; and a brother, Gaylord Matti.<\/p>\n

Funeral Services will be at 2:00 pm on Sunday, June 25, 2017 at Salem United Methodist Church, Eastman, Wisconsin with Rev. Lynn Schreck as the Officiant. There will be a two hour visitation before services from 12-2 pm at the church on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Burial will follow at National Cemetery, Eastman, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

Thornburg-Grau Funeral Home and Cremation Service, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin is helping the family with the arrangements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ethel Lorenz, 95, of Eastman, Wisconsin died Thursday, June 22, 2017 at Sannes Skogdalen Heim Nursing Home in Soldiers Grove, Wisconsin.\u00a0 Ethel Irene, the daughter of Harrison and Nettie (Kramer) Matti, was born June 15, 1922 in Bloomington, Wisconsin. Ethel was baptized and confirmed at the Methodist Church in Bloomington.\u00a0 She attended the Sioux Coulee […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[235],"class_list":["post-3102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-lorenz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3102"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3114,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102\/revisions\/3114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}