Obit: Erpenbach, William John ‘Bill #2 (1955 - 2014)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Erpenbach, Fitzsimmons, Skallerup, Balazs, Yndogliato, Seichter, Varkey

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co, WI) 10/22/2014

Erpenbach, William John ‘Bill’ (10 April 1955 - 15 September 2014)

A graveside Christian burial service for William John ‘Bill’ Erpenbach will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 1, 2014, at St. Mary’s Catholic Cemetery, Neillsville. The Celebrant will be Rev. Joseph V. Varkey. Immediately following the interment service, friends and family are invited to the American Legion Post 73 (6 Boon Blvd, Neillsville) to celebrate and remember Bill’s life.

William, 59, of Cheyenne, WY, died Monday, Sept. 15, 2014, at Cheyenne Memorial Medical Center from health and surgical complications. He was born April 10, 1955, in Neillsville, the son of William P. and Cecelia (Fitzsimmons) Erpenbach. He attended St. Mary’s Catholic School in Neillsville and was a 1973 graduate of Neillsville High School.

Throughout the years, Bill was employed as a brick mason in Wisconsin, Texas and Wyoming; worked for the Cheyenne Fire Department for more than 20 years and was a semi-truck driver. He will be remembered by his friends and family for his nicknames, his deer hunting and driving adventures, surprising everyone with his unexpected phone calls or visits back to Wisconsin, his wonderful laugh, his kind heart and all the stories he liked to tell and that we liked to tell about him.

He is lovingly survived by his father, William of Neillsville; a sister, Sylvia (John) Skallerup of Muskegon, MI; and three brothers, Paul (Natalie) Erpenbach of Neillsville and James Erpenbach and John (Mary) Erpenbach, both of DeForest. He is further survived by one nephew, James R. Skallerup of Cincinnati, OH; six nieces, Anne Skallerup, Chicago, IL, Erin (Jon) (Skallerup) Balazs, Houston, TX, Denise Erpenbach, Bellingham, WA, Holly Erpenbach, Neillsville, and Emily and Ashlyn Erpenbach of DeForest; along with several aunts, uncles and cousins.

William is preceded in death by his mother, Cecelia Erpenbach in March 2012; paternal grandparents, Anton (Tony) and Margaret (Yndogliato) Erpenbach; maternal grandparents, John and Ellen (Seichter) Fitzsimmons; and several aunts and uncles.