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Willard Reese

Willard Reese

Male 1914 - 2009  (95 years)


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  • Name Willard Reese  [1] 
    Birth 23 Mar 1914  Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 2 Aug 2009  Madison, Dane, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I9355  Branches and Roots
    Last Modified 13 Feb 2026 

    Father James Leroy Reese,   b. 1879, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1959 (Age 80 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Dora Nettie Kelly,   b. 9 Feb 1878, Linden, Iowa, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Feb 1954, Madison, Dane, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Family ID F3275  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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    1. [S242] Staff, Unknown Publication: Obituaries, (Name: Unknown; Location: Unknown;), Upright, Louise M. (Reese).
      Louise M. Upright

      Mrs. Herbert (Louise M.) Upright, 66, died early Sunday morning (April 17, 1983 at Kenosha Memorial Hospital.

      The daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Roy (Dora Kelly) Reese, she was born on April 27, 1916 in Mineral Point.

      She attended schools in Mineral Point and later graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. She came to Kenosha in 1950.

      On April 27, 1941, in Madison, she married Herbert Upright.

      A home economic teacher at Gateway Technical Institute for five years, she also taught at Bradford High School since 1959 on a part-time basis and full-time since 1965. She retired on January 17, 1978.

      She was a member of Holy Nativity Lutheran Church.

      Surviving are her husband; two sons, Scott W., Washington, D.C., and Michael P., Mount Clemens, Mich.; two brothers, Roy, Concord, Calif., and Willard, Madison; three sisters, Mrs. Vernon (Dorothy) Hendrickson, Balsam Lake, Mrs. George (Eleanor) Briggs, LaFayette, Calif., and Miss Mae Reese, Milwaukee, and two grandsons.

      She was preceded in death by a bother, Herold.

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      HFA: 11OCT2023