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    1. recent obits in the Moquah Voice
    2. Ashley Tiwara
    3. Please contact the Moquah Voice for more information about these individuals, not me, for I do not know them. I am just forwarding the information to this list in hopes of helping others find their relatives and ancestors. The Moquah Heritage Society has been organized for about 20 years and their publication, the Ethnic Voice, now comes out quarterly. The families mentioned are usually from Bayfield county, sometimes from Ashland county. Most of the ethnicity seems to be Slovene, with some Croatian, and some other. The Ethnic Voice 27630 County C Washburn, WI 54891 715) 373-5868 e-mail [email protected] [email protected] Washburn is on Chequamegon Bay of Lake Superior. Moquah is in the blue hills about 30 miles south of there. All of it is beautiful country. Ashley summarized from the spring 2002 issue of the Voice: In Memoriam VLASTY WHITE, Esther, aged 96, in TX. Daughter of Jacob and Mary HALJAK VLASTY. STROHMEYER PEZDERIC, Cecilia, aged 75, Ashland. KERTZ MADOLE, Leona, aged 80, Milwaukee. Daughter of Joseph and Amalia MURARIK KERTZ. MARITA FRANCHEK, Katherine, aged 67, Ashland. PUSKARICH HABAS, Mary C., aged 93, at home. Daughter of Matt and Agnes CINDRICH PUSKARICH. ANICH, Thomas M., aged 83, at home. Son of Matt and Cecilia DEVCIC ANICH. VLASTY, Paul, aged 76, Mason. Son of Jacob and Mary HALJAK VLASTY. LETKO, Rudolph J., aged 84, Ashland. Son of George and Mary Ann DRABIK LETKO. KLOBUCHER, Thomas, aged 71, Ashland. Son of John and Mary SPOLAR KLOBUCHAR. [ transcribing spelling as printed in the Voice ] This editon of the Voice includes a cover article on Lidice and the massacre by a Wisconsin student at the University in Prague, an article about surviving the Depression by hunting roots and trapping moles [ the moles brought 5 cents per skinned and dried pelt ], and about moonshining in the northern counties during the 20's and 30's. --

    03/14/2002 12:47:36