Caroline Steva

As a former art student in New Glarus during the sixties, I would like to express my sympathy. In a person's education, there are teachers that stand out and my Mrs. Steva was one of those teachers. She not only taught art but taught life and made you think. She encouraged me to apply for a scholarship to a Summer art camp at UW Wausau which was something I will remember forever and still have the artwork I did while there. I suspect you will hear from many former students and just wanted you to know why, after almost 50 years, I still remember a great teacher. My sympathy at this time while celebrating her life. Bill Hoesly

As one of Caroline's nieces, I was fortunate to get to see Caroline and Carl quite a number of times over the past 20 or so years. We had wonderful adventures together in both Ajo and Wisconsin, seeing the countryside, traveling to the desert and across the border into Mexico when I visited them in Arizona, and telling all sorts of family stories (mostly Caroline telling and me listening, since she was a great story teller). Both Caroline and Carl were endearing role models as elders who stayed active and engaged in life, caring for others, devoted to their three generations of offspring and their families, and taking delight in the beauty of nature and artistic endeavors. I will greatly miss my visits and "gallivanting around" with them. With Caroline's passing, I have lost one of my cherished friends and the last member of that generation.

My wife and I just moved into Vennevoll in May this past year and we first met Caroline when she stopped over to see us. What caught her eye from the street was one of my welded steel sculptures with stained glass incorporated with the metal. My wife and I were both art teachers so we had a lot in common to talk about. We winter in Green Valley Arizona and she told us about living In Ajo and how she loved it there. We planned to stop over and visit her late Fall, but she was off for her trip South. We will miss her coming down the street in her electric wheelchair and stopping in for a conversation. She was such a vibrant person taken too early in life. We felt bad that we could not make it to her memorial at the Skaalen club house to meet her family and loved ones but Kathy and I were both sick. Our thoughts and prayers go out to you in her family. God Bless. Kathy and Frank Parkel