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Today she is celebrating her 102nd birthday.
She has lived in Winona and the Winona area all of her life and is currently a resident in Watkins United Methodist Home.
She was born in Fountain City, Wis., and graduated from high school there. She has fond memories of nutting expeditions in the hills around Fountain City, of school where her favorite subject was arithmetic and of doing fun things with her schoolmates.
After her family moved to a home her parents built at 213 E. King St., Fugina clerked for a time at both Choate’s and Bailey’s department stores. When her parents became ill, she stayed home and took care of them. She also cared for a brother who suffered from Parkinson’s disease until his death in 1947.
From that time until she moved to the Watkins Home, she rented rooms in her home to students from Winona State University.
Her secret for living to be “too old” is to work hard, live a good life, do good things and help other people.
1958
Two Saint Mary’s College students this morning broke down a door to rescue a woman from her blazing, smoke-filled third-floor apartment while their roommate alerted other occupants of the 22-unit Landro Apartments, 103 W. Wabasha St.
The only casualty was Mrs. Ruby Alleman, about 60, in whose one-room and kitchenette apartment the fire of undetermined origin broke out shortly after 5 a.m.
She was carried from the building by James Duenow, 21, Austin and Ken Schammel, 20, Rose Creek, two of three students sharing a third-floor apartment across the hall from Mrs. Alleman.
Mrs. Alleman was taken by ambulance to Winona General Hospital where her condition this noon was described as critical.
She has second- and third-degree burns on about 30 percent of her body and is suffering from the effects of smoke inhalation.
Although the entire room was charred and furnishings destroyed, the fire appeared to have reached its greatest intensity in an area on the south side of the room near the woman’s bed. The flames broke through the ceiling of the roof, entered the attic and burned out a portion of the roof.
The blaze did not spread to other units of the apartment building, however.
1933
Do you want to commit suicide?
The First District Isaak Walton League association has been given an automobile to be driven off the top of the bluff at Crystal Springs at its annual picnic Sunday, June 4, as an added thriller to its annual motorcycle hill climb.
H.H. Dammann of Rochester, general chairman of the picnic committee, has been assigned the task of securing a driver for the car. The drop over the face of the bluff is about 75 degrees. Motorcycle riders have climbed it, and now it is proposed to send a car down the hill at full speed.
Applicants for the job of driving the car should be made to Mr. Dammann at the Olmsted County Businessmen’s Association, Rochester, Minn.
1908
Sudden death, which overtook him in an unusual place, was the fate that befell Peter Milkowski of this city this morning. While finishing a job of shingling at his home at 171 High Forest St., he was stricken with paralysis of the heart and must have died instantly. Joe Kukowski, who happened to be passing the residence at 9 o’clock, looked up and saw Milkowski sitting astride the ridge beam of his roof with hammer in hand, having almost completed the job of shingling he had been doing. He had the appearance of a dead man as while upright in body his head was drooping forward slightly. Mr. Kukowski at once entered the house and reported as to what he had seen and an investigation was made. Coroner John Steinbach was summoned, It did not take much of an examination by Dr. Steinbach to establish that Milkowski was dead. While 70 years of age he was strong and hearty, as was evidence by the fact he was able to shingle his own house. He had always enjoyed good health.
The dead man was one of the first Poles to locate in Winona, having come here n the 60s and lived here continuously since that time and having reared a large family.
1883:
Sheriff J.W. Leffingwell and his deputy, N.A. Federly, of Columbia County, Wisconsin arrived in this city at one o’clock last night on th trail of one D.L. Orwell. On arrival they gave a description of their man to the police and this morning he was captured. The charge against Orwell is one of the most heinous known to the law, that of incest with his own daughter.
Orwell is a musician, kalsominer and paper hanger, and rates very low in the community where he resides. He is a widower, about 50 years of age, with five children, three girls and two boys. The girl Mary M., upon whom the crime was committed is between 13 and 14 years of age. The warrant for his arrest in the possession of Sheriff Leffingwell recites with minuteness the commission of the crime on the 4th day of April last.
1863:
Sheriff King arrived home from la Crosse this morning whither he had been in pursuit of a horse thief. A man calling himself Elijah Hubbard stole a fine black stallion from G. Ramer of Plainview, and the Sheriff was notified that the thief had gone down the river with the stolen property. Telegraphing to La Crosse, the sheriff followed in pursuit and fortunately succeeded in arresting Hubbard at that place. The latter is not in jail here, but will probably be sent to Wabashaw County where the theft was committed to receive his trial. Like various other scoundrels who have been going through this community stealing horses, this fellow represented that he was buying for the government. He is supposed to be a resident of Green Lake, Wisconsin.
Contact Jerome Christenson at (507) 453-3500 or jchristenson@winonadailynews.com
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