farm managed to pay its way until the boys decid-
ed there ought to be easier ways to make a living.
After the selling and dividing of assets, Frank and
Jenny lived on the land until they died.
Because the other three children already own
land in the area, ownership of the home place has
descended to me. My wife and I are presently us-
ing as a retirement home the place first purchased
by Carl and Matilda Lundgren. Alvern Holly
WARREN - CAROLE - GENE
HORST
Warren Edward Horst was born at Pierce,
Nebraska, August 13, 1923. He had two sisters
and three brothers. His mother, Pearl Cwehinkle,
was born in Nebraska and his father was born in
Frank, Germany, coming to America as a young
child. When Warren was of pre-school age, his
family moved to Cheyenne, Wyoming. He attend-
ed grade and high school there, graduating with
high awards and honors as an outstanding athlete
in basketball, 1941.
In November, 1942, at age 19, he entered the
Army Air Corps and served in the African and
Italian Campaigns in WW II, as a radio operator
and tailgunner. He received the European Eastern
Service Medal, Good Conduct Medal, and a
Presidential Unit Citation, after completing his
50th mission in the Italian Campaign, at age
nineteen.
When the war was ended, he returned to Wyom-
ing and worked in the family's meat-locker
business. The family later expanded to the grocery
store business also and Warren worked in these
businesses until the Korean Conflict, when he
entered the service again, attaining the rank of
Master Sergeant. When discharged from service,
he attended the University of Wyoming, Laramie,
for two years, still continuing to work in the
family's meat business. When the family sold their
business in the early 1960s, Warren worked as a
meat inspector for the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, in Illinois and Wisconsin. In 1970 he
joined the IGA grocery chain as a meat manager,
moving the family to Ladysmith, Wisconsin. He
worked in that capacity until August 1973, then
changed work occupations and accepted a position
with the Soo Line Railroad. He is still employed as
a carpenter with the railroad at this writing.
Carole Jeanne Horst was born in Marinette,
Wisconsin, June 20, 1930. Her father, Francis
Framboise, (Rosberry) was born in Walsh and her

degree in Sociology in 1980 from Mount Senario
College, Ladysmith, Wisconsin.
Gene Francis Horst was born in Green Bay,
Brown County, Wisconsin, October 12, 1965. At
age 5 his family moved to Ladysmith, Wisconsin.
He attended grade school at Our Lady Of Sorrows,
graduating May, 1980. He is a senior at
Ladysmith High and will graduate with the Class
of 1984. In January 1983 he enlisted in the United
States Army Reserve and is stationed at Fort
Leonard Wood, Missouri, at present, for eight
weeks of basic training. Carole Horst
HOTZ-RADDANT HISTORY
My dad, Oscar Hotz, married his boss' niece,
Hannah Paulson, in 1906. He met mom while
bookkeeping for Ellingson Lumber Co. in Stetson-
ville. They moved to Hawkins when C.K. Ellingson
started a store, logging camp and sawmill there.
Helen (Mrs. Victor Raddant, Ladysmith), Leona
(Mrs. Albert Osborn, Shawano) and Dr. Loren
Holz, Wilmette, I11. were all born in Hawkins.
Dad was active in Hawkins - village president.
during prohibition days, on the Rusk County
Board for years, president of the school board
when and after the present elementary school was
built. He founded Rusk Mfg. Co. (box factory),
Shamrock Cranberry Co. (Hotz Cranberry Co.),
was a founder of Northern Sash & Door Co. (Nor-
co), promoted building the present Lutheran
Church. He was also president of the Hawkins
bank.
In September 1928 after fire destroyed his box
factory in Hawkins he purchased an idle factory in
Shawano. We moved there in 1929.
I graduated from the University of Minnesota,
did graduate work at UW and taught school for
three years. I met Victor Raddant in Shawano. We
married in 1937 and lived in Washington, D.C. Vic
worked in the Bureau of Public Roads. We came to
Ladysmith in 1941. Vic managed Hotz Cranberry
Co. for 25 years, was a founder of Cranberry Pro-
ducts Co. in Eagle River, serving as its vice-
president. He was secretary of Northern Sash &
Door Co. till his death in 1976. He held several of-
fices in church and Masonic bodies and was head
of the state Royal Arch Masons 1967-68.

Grandpa (Oscar) Hotz

Gene, Carole, and Warren Horst
May 18, 1980
mother, Genevieve Coakley, in New York. Her
maternal grandmother was born in Cork, Ireland.
Her paternal grandmother's maiden name was
Stephenie Benedict, born in France; paternal
grandfather also French. She had two sisters and
two brothers; the sisters died in childhood. Carol's
mother died in 1936 of pneumonia, at age 27. Her
father died in 1970, age 63.
Carole attended grade and high school in
Marinette. She moved to Brown County in early
1960s and prior to marriage worked as a telephone
operator and as a Medical Secretary there. She
earned an Associate of Arts degree, 1978 and a

I liked Cub and Girl Scout work, Eastern Star
and church work. Presently I'm a church organist,
Eastern Star officer, and enjoy golf.
Our son Robert was born in Ladysmith,
graduated from Ripon College (B.A.) and Emory
University (M.B.A.). He lives in Syracuse, N.Y.
with his English wife, Katherine, and two sons, Ian
and Andrew. Bob is a management consultant with
Coopers & Lybrand.
Our daughter, Anina, was born in Greenbelt,
Md. (outside Washington, D.C.). She graduated
from UW, married Sheldon Bearrood and lives in
St. Paul. Sheldon is with Republic Airlines. Anina
is Budget Director of the Minnesota Bureau of
Labor and Industry. They have two sons, Douglas
and Robert.

My childhood memories of Hawkins seem of
another age. Our neighbor, Louis St. Clair, had
the first car in the village, a Model T. How excited
we were about our first radio, taking turns listen-
ing with ear phones! The board sidewalks, going
for milk every evening, rock candy on a string and
"nigger babies" from Kramer's Store, when
Hawkins first got electricity, Armistice Day 1918
when schools closed and we paraded all over town
shouting and pounding tubs, pots, etc. for hours,
the chautauquas that brought "drama" to town
each summer ... they are all such vivid memories.
In high school we sleighed to logging camps to
give school plays. The loggers enjoyed that and we
enjoyed camp activities and the cook's delicious
food. Hawkins was a great place to live then ... it
still is, I'm sure. Submitted by Helen Hotz
Raddant

Houg Family - 1982

THE EDMUND HOUG FAMILY
My great grandfather Knute Knuteson came
with three brothers from Norway in the year of
1882. Three of the brothers changed their names
to Houg, Hansen, and Rockne. They all settled
around Black River Falls, Wisconsin.
My grandfather's name was Knute Houg. He
was a church designer and builder. He married
and  raised five sons: Edmund, Carl, Lee,
Laurence, and Cecil; also, one daughter Bessie.
Carl and Lee moved to Minneapolis and worked
for the Street Car Division for many years, then
Carl moved to Florida to retire; Bessie was also liv-
ing there. Cecil died as a child and was buried in
Appolonia, Wisconsin. Laurence, who is now the
only survivor, is living in New Mexico.
Edmund, our father, moved to Rusk County
after marrying Sarah Bates of Bruce in 1911. He
was a military man, spending time in the Philip-
pine Islands during the Philippine insurrection;
also was in the Cavalry in Fort Apache, Arizona.
During World War I he was a recruiter at
Ladysmith and was called "the Father of Troop
K." After leaving the service he was an electrical
engineer, building power dams in Kentucky,
Michigan, and the final project for him was the
Big Falls Dam where he was accidentally elec-
trocuted December 9, 1924. He is buried in Bruce,
Wisconsin. To this union were born three children:
Robert, Marjorie, and Carl. Sarah, his widow,
married Earl Tunison of Ladysmith, and eventual-
ly moved to Aberdeen, Washington, where they
operated a used furniture business. Earl passed
away June 18, 1948, and Sarah on May 13, 1958.
Robert Houg retired from the plywood business
in Aberdeen, Washington, after raising two
children, and they have three grandchildren.
Carl is a semi-retired real estate broker residing
in Eugene, Oregon. They raised one child and have
one grandchild.
Marjorie is retired after working with her hus-
band in a retail sales business in Port Angeles,
Washington, for 21 years. They have three
children and twelve grandchildren. Our family en-
joys antique cars and music. Marjorie Houg Raber
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