There was a Celebration of Life in Nick Graebel’s honor at the Madison Turner Hall, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Nick’s family and friends recounted their experiences and fond memories. Nick enjoyed life and found ways to share that with others.
Nick retired from the Fire Department in 2005, played volleyball with Madison Turners, and was a member of the Madison Maennerchor for 34 years. This is an opportunity for his former co-workers, friends and singers to remember him. The MMC sang in his honor.
An excellent article on Nick appeared in the Wisconsin State Journal.
A brief obit is available here.
Here is a picture of our MMC Hall downtown Madison. Not sure of the year this photo was taken – late 1950’s? Submitted by Walter Bausch. (Click on the picture for a larger view)
Turner Hall, downtown Madison Wisconsin
Here is a photograph submitted by Ed Essert of the MMC in 1956! (click o the picture for a bigger view)
Madison Maennerchor in 1956
The Madison Männerchor was honored by the Lescrenier family by being invited to sing at the Celebration of the Life of Charles Lescrenier. Rev G. Keith Schroerlucke presided. Charles and Peggy were long-time MMC associate members. We welcome Peggy’s continued support. The funeral was at Ryan Funeral Home (2814 N. Sherman Ave. Madison, Wisconsin). We sang Heimat (requested by the family), Morgenrot, and Beautiful Savior. About 25 MMC singers were present. John Mysliviec directed. June 4, 2011.
The more we heard of Charles Lescrenier’s life, the more we realized how many peoples’ lives he touched and in how many positive ways. It was indeed an honor to be present.
Charles Lescrenier
The obituary, prepared by the Joyce-Ryan Funeral home can be viewed at this link.
On May 26th, 2011, following our rehearsal, we elected our board and one trustee for the 2011-2012 season, our 160th!
| President | Dick Blatter | |
| Vice President | Guenther Ruch | |
| Treasurer | Mel Grulke | |
| Secretary | Morris Sadicario | |
| Social Chairman | Klaus Bodenstein | |
| Trustees | Terms are for three years | |
| to 5/2013 | Fred Berger | |
| to 5/2012 | Ron Knaus | |
| to 5/2014 | Ralph Clasen | |
For our annual recognition of departed members, we sang at these two cemeteries on June 12th.
At 11:00 a.m., we will gather at Highland Memorial Gardens Cemetery 3054 County Trunk BB, Cottage Grove, WI 53527 MAP
Afterwards, we gathered at Roselawn Memorial Park, 401 Femrite D., Madison WI 53716 MAP
In Erfurcht und Dankbarkeit gedenken wir all unseren verstorbenen Mitgliedern. Ihr Wirken soll uns Vorbild und Verpflichtung sein.
With honor and gratitude we remember our past members. Their accomplishments and example shall be our commitment for the future.
We held our picnic on Sunday, June 12, about 1:00 p.m., following our traditional cemetery sing. About 40 singers, wives, children and friends were there. The location was Monona’s Ahuska Park, 400 E Broadway.
The name “Ahuska” is the Ho-Chunk Indian word for “whitewing,” which was the name of the last Ho-Chunk family to live on the park’s land.
Lunch:
Smoky Jon’s BBQ Chicken & Ribs Garlic Butter mashed potatoes, Lettuce Salad with Dressing. Cake & Coffee. Beer & Soda
Evening Meal:
Brats & Buns; Aunt Rosa’s German Potato Salad, Renate’s Cucumber Salad and Sharon’s
Baked Beans.
MMC members at the rainy Madison Bratfest 2011
The World’s Largest Brat Fest! on Memorial Weekend ran from May 27 through May 30, 2011. Many celeBRATed with us at the Alliant Energy Center Willow Island grounds (Baker Tilly Tent)! We sang from about 4:40 to 5:30 p.m. Very lucky for us, the rain stopped shortly before we showed up.
The songs we planned to sing included 1 4 6 9 19 20 28 29 39 61 73 86 104 169 193 194.
A full-size Parking Map was prepared by the Brat Fest promoters. It will probably be different for 2012’s Brat Fest.
Pictures taken by our loyal supporters and are on the way. Here’s a shout-out to Sharon, Erika, others . . . Please send your best shots to me at morris@madisonmaennerchor.org. We’d love to have videos if anyone took some.