Michele M. Macha, 50, of Lena, passed away Feb. 6, 2015, at Theda Clark Medical Center. Born on Feb. 20, 1964, daughter of Cheri (Pardo) Hueckstaedt and the late Orville Wyent, she married Brian Macha on Oct. 3, 1993. Michele was the former owner/operator of the Electric Jungle Salon and Tanning at Kelly Lake and was the creator of Electric Jungle Horses.

Bone up on your trivia, because Battle of the Brains is coming to Gillett. The Gillett Diamond Club’s trivia contest encourages team-building, fun and competition at its family-friendly fundraiser, scheduled at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 8, at the Gillett Ambulance Garage, 225 W. Park St. Cost is $10 per person, with teams comprised of up to eight people. Family, friends, co-workers, neighbors or club members are encouraged to form teams to compete.

The painters at New View Industries have been busy painting barn quilt blocks all winter for the Barn Quilts of Oconto County project.

At the joining of the north and south branch of the Oconto River with the Peshtigo branch, a sawmill community struggled for existence in the late 1800s. Enter Mighty Casey, the train used by the Chicago Northwestern to route its Green Bay to Leona line through a community often called Mudville. This is our beloved Suring, incorporated on Jan. 19, 1915. Unlike the Casey of baseball yore, this Mighty Casey did not strike out.

How sweet, how rare, to find today The quiet, even spoken elf Who holds the status hounds at bay By merely being just himself. — Murray Paddack Glenn Kevin Smoot (G. Kevin), formerly of Gillett, was born Jan. 26, 1949, in Hinsdale, Illinois, to Margaret (Patz) and Glenn W. Smoot. He moved with his family to a farm near Gillett as a child and graduated from Gillett High School.

Isabel L. Sells, 97, New London, passed away on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015, at Woodland Village in Suring. She was born on Jan. 12, 1918, in Rothschild (Marathon County), daughter of the late George W. and Josephine (Pillar) Smith. Isabel was formerly a telephone operator and then kindergarten teacher at Emanuel Lutheran School, New London. She loved being in the Lutheran Women’s Missionary Society and the New London Garden Club.

June Rose (Froelich) Gering, 95, Crivitz, went home to be with her beautiful daughter and husband on Feb. 15, 2015. She was born June 15, 1919, in Green Bay. June graduated from Lena High School in 1937. She married Melvin L. Gering on May 27, 1939, in Green Bay. They lived in Howard and retired to Crivitz. June was a stay at home mom to her eight children.

Doris M. Durocher, 91, Oconto Falls, died Tuesday morning, Feb. 17, 2015, at Sharpe Care. She was born March 22, 1923, in Oconto to Bernard and Frances (McKeever) Peck. Doris grew up in Oconto Falls, where she attended St. Anthony Catholic School before graduating from Oconto Falls High School with the Class of 1941. On July 30, 1941, she married Leonard J.

Editor’s note: This is the second in a series focusing on the artists of the Suring area, in honor of Suring’s centennial celebration. Mavis Suring and her late husband, Rodean, are both direct descendants of Johann Suring, the father of Julius (Joe) Suring, the man who gave Suring its name. Johann is their great-great-grandfather. Mavis Suring is a multi-talented individual and has always loved to learn.