Eldor Louis Bartness

ELDOR LOUIS BARTNESS, KNOWN AS "BUD" TO HIS FAMILY & FRIENDS, PASSED INTO THE ARMS OF JESUS SATURDAY DECEMBER 22 AT ST. MARY'S HOSPITAL IN MILWAUKEE. HE WAS BORN JUNE 9, 1919, IN WASHBURN, WISCONSIN, SON OF OSCAR AND MINNIE BARTNESS. BUD GRADUATED FROM WASHBURN HIGH SCHOOL IN 1937. HE WORKED AT THE DUPONT BARKSDALE WORKS AND DUPONT JOLIET, ILLINOIS, BEFORE JOINING THE U.S. NAVY IN 1943, SERVING UNTIL THE END OF WWII. HE MARRIED LAVERNE (DOTTY) PEHOWSKI IN 1942. BUD RESUMED HIS CAREER WITH DUPONT IN JOLIET RETURNING TO WASHBURN IN 1946 TO WORK AT DUPONT-BARKSDALE,EVENTUALLY BECOMING A FOREMAN AND THEN A SUPERVISOR,TRANSFERRING TO DUPONT TERRA HAUTE, INDIANA AND FINALLY TO DUPONT-SENECA, ILLINOIS WHERE HE RETIRED IN 1977. AFTER RETIREMENT, BUD AND DOTTY MOVED TO CEDARBURG WHERE HE MANAGED A LARGE APARTMENT COMPLEX. BUD WAS AN AVID SPORTSMAN, AND LOVED HUNTING, FISHING, AND SKIING, AND IN LATER YEARS, GOLF. HE WAS A DEDICATED PARISHIONER AT ST. FRANCIS BORGIA CATHOLIC CHURCH IN CEDARBURG. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE OF 65 YEARS, LAVERNE ("DOTTY"), OF CEDARBURG AND DAUGHTER PATRICIA (DENNIS) TORKKO, ALSO OF CEDARBURG.BUD WAS THE BELOVED GRANDFATHER OF WENDY (LARRY) MILLER OF CEDARBURG AND KARI (ERIC) SCHMIDT OF FITCHBURG AND GREATGRANDFATHER OF NATHAN AND MEGAN MILLER AND MONICA SCHMIDT. BUD IS ALSO SURVIVED BY SISTERS JOYCE LARSON, WASHBURN, THARIS BARTNESS, MENOMONEE FALLS, BERNICE (HAROLD) KLEMMER, MENOMONEE FALLS, AND JUNE OLSON, MADISON, SISTER-IN-LAW EVELYN HARVEY, WEBSTER GROVE, MO., AND MANY NIECES AND NEPHEWS. HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS PARENTS AND HIS SISTER MARCELINE BORGREN. A MASS OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL WILL BE HELD THURS., DEC. 27, 2007 11AM AT ST. FRANCIS BORGIA CATHOLIC CHURCH NORTH (1375 COVERED BRIDGE RD.), CEDARBURG. VISITATION WILL BE HELD ON THURS. FROM 9AM TO 11AM AT THE CHURCH. IN LIEU OF FLOWERS, MEMORIALS TO ST. FRANCIS BORGIA CATHOLIC CHURCH BUILDING FUND APPRECIATED. FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS ARE BEING HANDLED BY MUELLER FUNERAL HOME. FOR ONLINE CONDOLENCES GO TO www.muellerfuneralhome.com. Memorials: IN LIEU OF FLOWERS, MEMORIALS TO ST. FRANCIS BORGIA CATHOLIC CHURCH BUILDING FUND APPRECIATED. Cemetery: Resurrection Cemetery 9401 W. Donges Bay Rd. Mequon, WI (map/driving directions) Visitation: 9AM to 11AM at St. Francis Borgia North Catholic Church 1375 Covered Bridge Rd. Cedarburg, WI 53012 on December 27, 2007 (map/driving directions) Service: 11AM at St. Francis Borgia North Catholic Church 1375 Covered Bridge Rd. Cedarburg, WI 53012 on December 27, 2007 (map/driving directions)