Liese Wessel

Liese Wessel, age 91, passed away peacefully at Ellen’s Home assisted-living home in Port Washington with family by her bedside on Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024.

She was born on March 30, 1932, in Curitiba, Brazil, to Abram and Anna Kroker.

Liese was hired as a flight attendant by a Brazilian airline in the 1950s and spent seven years flying across the world to places like Japan, Hawaii and California.

She moved to Wisconsin in 1962 to start a family and lived here for the remainder of her life.

Liese was a talented artist, painting pictures for various clients, and also a skilled seamstress, working for several sewing companies. She also worked as a baker and at a packaging company over the course of her life, making lifelong friends.

Liese was a devoted mother and wife who worked hard for her family and loved to worship Jesus in her Christian faith. She made everyone feel loved and was a great example of a person who cared for all people. To know Liese was to know unconditional love.

Liese is survived by her sister Susi Klassen, her sons Robert (Elaine), Herbert (Karla), Gerhard (Cheryl) and Rolf (Liz), and six grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, brother Abram, sisters Anni, Katie and Trudi and her husband Oswald.

A private celebration of her life will be held at a later date.