Columbia County WI Archives Obituaries.....Bunsa, George E March 13, 1962
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Portage Daily Register Wed Mar 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, Ind.; 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. 

Additional Comments:
Portage Daily Register Portage Wisconsin Wed Mar 14 1962 
Baraboo News Republic Thu Mar 15 1962
Beaver Dam Daily Citizen Fri Mar 16 1962
Kenosha Evening News Thu Mar 15 1962
Wisconsin State Journal Thu Mar 15 1962

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