February 16 1918 July 20 2019
Alma Walsh passed into God’s arms on July 20, 2019 at 101 years old. ,She was born on the family farm in Haney Valley to Jessie Spencer Schwert and Otto Schwert. She had one brother, Kenneth Schwert. She attended Haney Valley Grade School, Seneca and Gays Mills High Schools. She graduated from Gays Mills in 1935, Fenimore Normal School in 1937, and LaCrosse State University in 1965. She taught elementary school for 38 years in one room rural schools in Crawford County, Cambridge, Johnson Creek, and her last 23 years in Delafield. She married Leon Walsh in 1938 and they had three children. She is survived by her son, John(Mary), daughter, JeanAnn Walsh-Doud, and son-in-law Joseph Kelley, six grandchildren, Patti Earp Heck(Larry), Kevin Kelley(Brooke), Maureen Acker(Thomas), Mollie Burd(Jeffrey), Sean Walsh, Joseph Walsh, five great grandchildren, Olivia Lamoreux(Isaac), Morgan Earp, Brianna Fair(Zachery), Rachael Acker, Grace Carlson, two great great grandchildren, Lydia Lamoreux and Thomas Fair. She is preceded in death by her husband Leon, a daughter Mary Kelley, son-in-law Roy Doud, parents, brother Kenneth, sister-in-laws Margaret Schwert, Ada Mook, Lorena Walsh, Alice Morgan, Lola Dunn and brother-in-laws Fritz and Paul Walsh. Funeral services will be on Saturday, August 10, 2019, at 11:00 am, at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Seneca with Fr. Eugene Wolf officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the St. Patrick’s Church Hall from 10:00 am until service time. The Beeman-Patchak Funeral Home of Boscobel is assisting the family. On line condolences may be made at www.beeman-patchakfuneralhome.com. To send flowers or a memorial gift to the family of Alma Jessie Walsh please visit our Sympathy Store.
Our most sincere sympathies to the family and friends of Alma Jessie Walsh February 16 1918 July 20 2019.
Death notice for the town of: Boscobel, state: Wisconsin