Patients arriving at the Community Memorial hospital had the staff calling for him, and when the doctor did not answer, Jerry Binkowski was called at the Casba Club to go out to get him. It was assumed that the doctor was on the beach or working on the grounds. Jerry found the doctor on the floor of the floor of the porch and called Mill Mildred Vernosh, hospital superintendent, who in turn summoned Soulek's ambulance. They found that the doctor had apparently suffered a heart attack and passed away very suddenly. This was verified by Dr. D. M. Bailey, and it is thought the attack occurred between one and two-thirty o'clock. Jerry went out to the lake about four o'clock.
Dr. Rauchschwalbe came to Oconto Falls in 1943. His first office was in the Hayes Building and he later built the modern office and living quarters on Main Street. He was born July23, 1903 and had just passed his 53rd birthday.
He graduated from North Division High School in Milwaukee and the Medical School at the University of Wisconsin with the Class of 1927. He had earned many honors as he was a high ranking student. His experience before coming here included work with the well-known Jackson Clinic in Madison. He was associated with the Medical Societies and worked ardently for measures designed to help people.
Survivors include his wife Dorethea, who has been an invalid for the past five years and is confined in a sanitarium in the southern part of the state. Other members of his family include three brothers, Roland, Frank and Ernest and a sister Mrs. Jos. Baer, all of Milwaukee.
The remains were in state at the Soulek Funeral Home until two o'clock on Wednesday when rites were conducted by the Rev. W. C. Lindsley of Grace Lutheran Church at two o'clock..
Miss Joan Tisch was the soloist and Mrs. Aaron Rudolph presided at the organ.
Interment took place in Pine Lawn Cemetery in Milwaukee.
The doctor will be missed, as he was a man whose patients counted him as a friend. No greater praise can be given anyone than this, but it is doubly noteworthy when he of whom it is said is a doctor. May he rest in peace.