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Julie A. Weiss
Julie A. Weiss (nee Julia Cecelia Menhardt) passed
away on January 3, 2012 of natural causes at the age of 95.
Julie was born in 1916 to Jacob and Mary Menhardt, immigrants from
present-day Slovenia. She was the second of three children.
The first child, Cecelia, died at birth while the third, Lorraine,
survives her.
In 1928, when she was twelve, Julie won the
city-wide Mother Nature contest sponsored by the Sheboygan Press and
open to all school children. Upon graduation from high
school at the age of sixteen she served as secretary to Ferdinand
Bahr, the first director of the Sheboygan Recreation Department that
was then housed in the old Lincoln Elementary School. After
three years in this position she enrolled at the University of
Wisconsin - La Crosse where she majored in physical education.
Upon graduation she took a high school teaching position in Beloit,
WI and worked summers as playground director at Jefferson School in
Sheboygan and later at a school in Sioux City, Iowa.
Subsequently Julie was hired to teach physical education at a high
school in Cincinnati, Ohio.
In 1945 as part of the war effort Julie joined the
USO (United Services Organization). After training at Hunter
College she became program director of the USO in Wichita, Kansas.
Julie then traveled to the Philippines where she was secretary for
the USO director there and for Drake Utah Grove, a company charged
with rebuilding Clark Field after the war. In 1951 Julie
returned home to Sheboygan where she became a secretary for Larson
Plywood Company whose headquarters at the time were located on 15th
and Geele Ave. While working at Larson Plywood Julie was
introduced to Martin Weiss, then a part-time bartender at nearby
Weiss' tavern. (He would later found the Foam Up Style Root Beer
Company of Sheboygan.) They married and in 1953 she gave birth to
her only child.
As a parent Julie was active in Sheboygan
Community Players, the Sheboygan Stamp Club, and the Washington
elementary school PTA including serving as its president. Her
hobbies were stamp collecting and gardening. Gardening was her
special passion and she annually produced a sizable crop of
vegetables the majority of which she donated to a local community
food kitchen.
Julie is survived by a son Jack, a sister
Lorraine, three nephews, and numerous great-nephews and nieces.
Honoring Julie's wishes, burial will be in
Calvary Cemetery with no services.
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