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Koelsch Funeral Home: Koelsch Funeral Home: October 12, 2010 : 7622 W, Greenfield Ave. Tudor Revival-styled funeral home, designed by Raymond Dwyer and built in 1937 with air conditioning and a sound system - advanced for the time. [153] 96
A committee appointed by members of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in 1847 established Forest Home Cemetery on what would later become Milwaukee's south side. When the land was selected it was located nearly two miles outside of the city limits along the newly built Janesville Plank Road (now Forest Home Avenue), in an area believed to be far enough from urban development to remain rural. [4]
There he met and married his much younger second wife, Grace Mason, and begat two sons: William H. Upham Jr., (who was a member of Milwaukee Yacht Club until his death), and Frederick M. Upham, who survived his older sibling. [12] [13] [14] On August 20, 2009, at age 93, William H. Upham Jr., died in his home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, due to ...
The case marks the second time in recent years that Milwaukee funeral home operators have been charged with fraud. Former funeral home owner Jimmy D. Davis Jr. was charged in September 2021 with ...
With chants of “Justice for D'Vontaye,” family and friends gathered Thursday for the funeral of a Black man who died after being pinned to the ground by security guards outside a Milwaukee hotel.
Calvary Cemetery contains a monument dedicated to the approximately 430 people who died with the sinking of the Lady Elgin on Lake Michigan in 1860. Most of those lost in the tragedy were from Milwaukee's Third Ward Irish community and is the second greatest loss of life seen on the Great Lakes.
The last of four hotel workers charged in connection with D’Vontaye Mitchell’s death was taken into custody Friday, more than five weeks after he and the others allegedly piled onto the Black ...
A local cabinet maker built the coffin. Close family and friends met for a small service in the home. Then the body was carried by a rented horse-drawn hearse to the church for a ceremony, and then on to the cemetery for the burial. By the 1890s, full-service funeral homes were beginning to appear in Milwaukee, with more space than the typical ...