Patricia Raether

Patricia Raether, died Thursday, December 1, 2016, surrounded by the love of her family. Pat was born to the late Willard and Geraldine (Blondheim) Stutzman in Green Bay, Wisconsin on August 11, 1944. Pat attended Seymour Union High School, graduating with the class of 1962. Pat married Larry Raether on April 27, 1963 in Cicero, Wisconsin and they lived in Black Creek, Wisconsin before moving to Green Bay, Wisconsin. They renewed their wedding vows on February 22, 1980. For 53 years, they lived their marriage vows through good times and bad times, and in sickness and in health. Together, as life partners, they raised two children. Pat worked for attorneys Steve Cohen, Alex Grant, Judge Robert Parins, Thomas Parins and Patrick Crooks; worked at UWGB, secretary to the Director at the Brown County Mental Health Center; and worked as Executive Secretary to Thomas Lutsey, Sr. and Thomas Lutsey, Jr. at Gold Bond Ice Cream (now Unliever Ice Cream) for 21 years, retiring in 1999. Pat joined Martha Washington Chapter #124 in 1983 and was a Past Matron. She was also a member of Nazarene Shrine #8 and joined Ajeb Temple #156 Daughters of the Nile in 1999. She spent many years...[more]

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mping with the Green Bay Campers Club. She was an avid reader and cherished her relationship with her daughter, granddaughters and great-grandson. She loved travel and traveled every spring to Tampa, Florida from 1976 until they moved there full time in 2000 and then moved back to Wisconsin in 2007. She was able to live out her personal dream of motor home travel for six summers. She enjoyed traveling around the United States in their motor home. She and her husband took at extensive trip in 2001 to Arizona with their two granddaughters and two family pet dogs. Left to cherish her memories are her husband of 53 years, Larry; her daughter, Susan Booth, Tampa, Florida; two granddaughters, Sabrina Booth, Tampa, Florida and Jacqueline (Chad) Chapman, Sacramento, California; one great-grandson, Aidan Craig Werth; brother, James Stutzman, Mesa, Arizona; brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Dan and Judy Raether, Little Suamico; niece, Melissa (Corianne) Canton, Tucson, Arizona; cousins, many relatives and friends. Pat's deepest sadness was losing her son, Craig, on May 27, 2007. She missed him greatly. She was also predeceased by her parents, an infant sister, Mae; her maternal grandparents, Emma and Roy Blondheim and paternal grandparents, Emma and John Stutzman and her beloved canine companions, "Heidi" and Buddy". Visitation will be held on Saturday, December 3, 2016 at Shrine of the Good Shepherd Chapel, 2770 Bay Settlement Road, from 9 am to the time of funeral service at 11 am. Entombment will be in the Shrine of the Good Shepherd Mausoleum. Online condolences may be expressed at www.lyndahl.com.