Condolences for

Dale worked with your father at the Cooler Company, and we wish to extend our condolences to all of you. He will be missed greatly by all that knew him.

Dear Gerald, Vicky, and David, We have great memories of Dick, telling great stories, fishing and duck hunting with Arnie Swartz at Berniece's cottage in Dresbach. It was great fun to listen to Dick and his sisters Berniece, Gladys, Jane, and Aldie talk about their early days growing up in La Crosse. We will be out of town and are sad to miss Dick's Memorial Service. We sent you a card with a memorial. Our Sympathy, Robin, Stephanie, Lauren, Kristin Swartz

Dick was very special to all my family and was the BEST next door neighbor anyone could have. My sister Karla and I were always referred to as Clara and Merk by Dick - not sure why, but it stuck! He was SO handy with everything, and he and my father, Elmer Grassman were inseparable when mechanical tasks were to be done. I, although I grew up less than a mile from the river, I had never gone duck hunting, until I moved to the Green Bay/Appleton area and Dick invited me to go. We did that as a ritual for many years, and it was SO fun to have him identify a type of duck from MILE away, or have him tell me about his childhood in the Mississippi River flats, before the dams were built, just after the depression, with the help of the WPA. Dick was like a second father to me. A second, funnier/goofier father. I will miss him much. But the Lord will now have his smile and sense of humor in heaven. And, when I go to heaven, I expect that the first thing I will hear from Dick is, "how's it going, Merc?"