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Meet the owners

James M. Olson

Jim is President and Treasurer - Secretary and owns majority interest in the firm. He has been a funeral director with the funeral home since October 1, 1999. He is a native of Wisconsin but had been living in Connecticut and the East Coast for the past 10 years. He studied music at U.W.- Stevens Point before moving to New York where he studied at the Westchester Conservatory of Music. Jim was a Music Director for 8 years during which time he attended Southern Connecticut State University where he received a Bachelors of Science degree in 1996. He then attended Briarwood College where he received his degree in Mortuary Science in 1998. Jim sang professionally with the Connecticut Grand Opera and Orchestra and The Mendelssohn Choir of Connecticut and made his Carnegie Hall debut on Easter Sunday 1999. Jim enjoys sailing and is also an active member of the Sheboygan Yacht Club where he serves as the Membership Secretary. He is an active member of Grace Episcopal Church where he currently serves as the Senior Warden and is a member of choir. He also enjoys skiing, collecting antiques, playing the piano and organ, and spending time with his niece and nephews, Marissa, Benjamin, and Noah, and his Jindo and German Shepherd, Lobo and Pike. Email James

 

Chuck Bartel

Chuck is Vice President and has a minority interest in the firm. Chuck has been licensed since 1989 after graduating from Milwaukee Area Technical College. In 1998, Chuck became licensed as an insurance intermediary (life insurance agent) and an agent for burial trust agreements. Chuck became interested in the internet and developed the website you are currently visiting. He has a few other websites that he works on in his spare time. Chuck was married in 2003 to his wife Jennifer and together with their girls Trina and Elizabeth, they are renovating their 100 year old home. Chuck's community involvement includes memberships in the Kiwanis Club of Lakeshore-Sunrise Sheboygan, where he is the current treasurer, St. John's United Church of Christ, and Sheboygan Elk's Lodge #299. Chuck enjoys fishing, hunting and his wife's teacup poodles Sammy & Trouble. Email Chuck

Now meet our staff.

We are very proud of the people that work with us. Their professionalism, dedication, compassion and hard work enable Lippert-Olson Funeral Home to provide the highest quality of caring service to the families we serve!

Our associate directors.

 

 

Hans Graf

Hans is our newest funeral director and has been with the funeral home since November 1, 2002. Hans holds a B.A. in Art History from Tufts University in Medford Massachusetts. He studied architecture at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, and ran his own contracting firm for 10 years building and remodeling homes. He recently graduated from Worsham College of Mortuary Science in Wheeling, IL with an associate's degree in mortuary science. Hans is an active member of the Sheboygan Yacht Club, and has a passion for sailing, competing aboard boats up to 70 feet long in 11 Chicago to Mackinac, and 9 Port Huron to Mackinac races, as well as 6 Lightning North American Championships all over the U.S., and Canada. Hans was the event Chairman for the 2005 Lightning North American Championships that was be held at the Sheboygan Yacht Club in August of 2005. He sings in the Choir at Grace Episcopal Church directed by Dr. Benjanmin Dobbe, and enjoys playing the piano, and hunting mushrooms. Hans enjoys a close relationship with his father, Dr. Christopher Graf, and his brothers, sisters, neice, and nephews. Email Hans

 

Dennis Nelson

Dennis is a funeral director and has been with the funeral home since 1996. He attended Milwaukee Area Technical College and graduated in 1993. Dennis enjoys spending time with his two children, his granddaughter, and in his free time you are likely to find him snowmobiling, hunting and attending Drum and Bugle Corps performances.

 

And the rest of our staff

Bernie Markevitch, John Van Der Male, Mark Richter, T.J. Katt & Raymond Salzwedel - Funeral Assistants

Bernie Markevitch - Floral Designer

Mary Lange - Staff Beautician (Licensed Beautician)

Joyce Fritz, Mary Dulmes, Marcia Timm - Staff Organists & Soloist

  

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