Wallace W “Wally”Pasbrig, 15 Dec 1939 – 04 Mar 2011

PASBRIG, NELSON, VOEHL, SACKETT, BLANKINSHIP, GRAESSER, FAUERBACH

Posted By: Sandy Ficken (email)
Date: 3/21/2011 at 16:50:00

Funeral services for Wallace W. “Wally” Pasbrig, 71, South Amana, were held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, March 8, at Trinity Lutheran Church, Walford. He died Friday, March 4, 2011, at St. Luke’s Hospital, Cedar Rapids, following a brief illness.

The Rev. David Mosher officiated at the service.

A memorial fund has been established.

Kloster Funeral Home, Marengo, was in charge of arrangements. Online condolences may be left at www.klosterfuneralhome.com.

Wallace William Pasbrig was born Dec. 15, 1939, in Madison, Wis., the son of Wallace Henry and Myra Isabel Nelson Pasbrig. He graduated from Mayville High School in 1958 and attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and then Brown School of Broadcasting, Minneapolis, Minn.

He served in the U.S. Air Force Reserves.

He married Paula Louise Voehl Oct. 29, 1966, at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, Clinton. He was employed with KCRG Radio for many years, retiring in 2002.

He was active in several civic organizations in Wisconsin and Iowa. He was an avid supporter of the Green Bay Packers and the Wisconsin Badgers.

Pasbrig is survived by his wife; three children and their spouses, David and special friend Elaine Sackett, Cedar Rapids; Jennifer and Wes Blankinship, Oxford, and Christopher and Jill, Homestead; four grandchildren, Andrew and Samuel Graesser and Lauren and Elizabeth Pasbrig; one brother and his wife, David and Charlene Pasbrig, and one sister and her husband, Cindy and Steve Fauerbach, all Mayville, Wis.

He was preceded in death by his parents.

The Williamsburg Journal Tribune, Williamsburg Iowa, 10 Mar 2011, pg 3