6-15-2006, The Daily Press.

Mabel V. Wirsing, 101, FIFIELD — Mabel V. Wirsing, age 101, died Tuesday, June 13, 2006 at Park Manor Nursing Home in Park Falls. She was born on November 21, 1904 in Minnesota, the daughter of Julius [should be Lewis] and Annie (Varner) Dorman. Mabel moved with her family to Brantwood and attended the Phillips Normal Teaching College and then taught school in Brantwood. She moved to Milwaukee and then to Fifield. She was active with the Fifield Congregational Church teaching Sunday School and was an organist. She was a member of the Fifield American Legion Auxiliary, the Colonial Dames Society, the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Fifield Cub Scouts.


She is survived by a daughter, Marjorie (Lee) Hunziker of Wisconsin Rapids; nine grandchildren; 28 great-grandchildren; 49 great-great-grandchildren; 12 great-great-great grandchildren; and other relatives and friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband Julius; her son Gordon Wirsing; her daughter, Beatrice Briske; and two grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held on Friday, June 16 at 10:30 a.m. at the First Congregational United Church of Christ in Fifield. Rev. Scot O’Connor will officiate. Burial will follow at Forest Home Cemetery in Fifield.

Visitation will be held on Thursday from 4-7 p.m. at the church and on Friday from 9:30 a.m. until the hour of the service at the church.

The Novitzke Funeral Home in Park Falls is handling the arrangements.