Inez Rossi

Picha Funeral Home, Locally Owned and Operated

Providing Friendly, Courteous and Dignified Funeral Service

Inez M. Rossi, age 87 of Mauston, Wisconsin died Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at Hess Memorial Hospital in Mauston.

The Mass of Christian Burial will be held Saturday, November 3, 2007 at 10:30 A.M. at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Lyndon Station with Father Paul Czerwonka celebrating. Burial will be at Mt. Olive Cemetery near Westboro, Wisconsin.

Visitation will be held at the Conway Picha Funeral Home in Lyndon Station on Friday from 4 to 8 P.M. and on Saturday from 9:30 A.M. - 10:15 A.M.

Inez was born August 8, 1920 in Loyal, Wisconsin the daughter of Ole and Anna (Molley) Elstrom. In 1941 she married John Rossi. Together they owned and operated Rossi’s Tap in Westboro for many years and retired to Lyndon Station where she stayed busy with church; was a meal site volunteer; was a member of the Maurice C. Havey Post 5970 Auxiliary of Lyndon Station and was an avid Green Bay Packer fan.

Inez is survived by her daughter, Anne Marie “Sunny” (William) Kalk of Lake Bluff, Illinois; grandchildren, Christina, Mark, Erika, Amanda, Erika and Katie; and sisters, Evelyn Koski and Shirley (Bob) Kollmansburger both of Loyal, Wisconsin, Mildred (Chester) Stephens of Spencer, Wisconsin, Arlene Foker of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, Jean Fresoli and Lorraine (Jesse) Contreras both of Chicago, Illinois. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; a son, John Richard; and brothers, Glen “Bud”, Charles, Don and Duane “Dewey” Elstrom.