researched by Kathy Olson 

 
10/Dec/1976  

Lon Schaal Accident Victim

Our whole area was shocked and saddened by the tragic sudden death of Lon Schaal in a logging accident in the Maiden Lake area on Friday. Lon was only 32 years old. He was born January 12,1944 in Green Bay and was a lifetime resident of Oconto County. The Schaals live in Riverview, near Crooked Lake. He married Geraldine Peterson August 17, 1963. They have two children, Lona and Stewart.

Lon was a member of Tabor Lutheran Church, Mountain, a member of the church council, was an Elder of the church, a member of the Lutheran Laymans League, the Crooked Lake tire department, and was a logger by trade.

Survivors besides his wife and children are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cyril (Zip) Schaal, two brothers, Dale. Mountain; Glen, Pound; two sisters, Mrs. Gerald (Ann) Pagenkoph, Shawano; and Tassie Schaal, Mountain; and his grandmother, Mrs. Flora Schaal, Gillett. He was preceded in death by one brother.

Funeral services were held Monday at Tabor Lutheran Church, the Rev. Bert Schmidt officiating.

Our sympathy goes out to these sorrowing people.

 
10/Dec/1976  

Lonny Schaal Killed In Logging Accident

According to Fisher, the dead man was logging with a brother, Dale, just south of Maiden Lake in the Town of Riverview. The coroner said the machine apparently broke through about 8 to 10 inches of ice on a small pond.

Dale Schaal told authorities he left the site at approximately 1 p.m. to deliver a load of logs. He returned approximately an hour later and found the body of his brother pinned between the equipment and the ice.