Columbia County WI Archives Obituaries.....Bunsa, George E March 13, 1962
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Portage Daily Register Portage Wisconsin Wednesday March 14 1962 
George E. Bunsa, 93, five time mayor of Columbus. died Tuesday evening after a
long illness. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 pm, Friday at the Jones
Funeral Home with the Rev. Earl Remaly officiating  Burial will be in Hillside
cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 4 p.m. Thursday. Survivors
are his wife, the former Laura Smith; a son, Thomas S., East Chicago, and a
daughter Mary, Mrs. Howard' Kratz, La Jolla, Calif. Mr,. Bunsa had a long, and
colorful career. Born at Eagle, Wis., in 1869,  he went to schools in Palmyra
and Milwaukee. He taught at Merrill and was football coach there. at a time when
William Evjue of the Capital Times was a football player. Mr. Bunsa came to
Columbus in 1906, buying the Columbus Democrat, a newspaper he later sold so he
could attend the University of Wisconsin, where he graduated with a degree in
law in 1912. While practicing law in Columbus. the deceased also taught school
and was an athletic coach. He was mayor for five two-year terms 1917-1927, and
served 11 terms as justice of the peace, from 1939 to the present, missing only
one term in 1951. 

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