Mary Winn

Mary Alice (Murray) Winn (Pixie) was born 10/19/1939 in Milwaukee, WI to the late Burbank Murray and Elsie Anna Murray (Biggar). During WWII she lived with her mother and maternal grandparents on their crop farm in Fulton, WI while her father served overseas with the U.S. Army. After the War, she moved to Brookfield, WI and then to Wauwatosa, WI where she graduated from Wauwatosa High School in 1957. She attended University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and then moved to La Grange, IL in 1959 where she first worked in the Engineering Department at Argonne National Laboratories in Lemont, IL and then in the Pharmacology Department at the University of Illinois Medical School in Chicago. In late 1962 she moved back to Milwaukee and worked at Marquette University School of Medicine, at the downtown location and later at the MUSM Clinical Research Center in Wauwatosa.
In 1963, on a blind date arranged by her favorite cousin and husband she met the love of her life, Ron Winn. They were married May 1, 1964 at the Elm Grove Methodist Church, Elm Grove, WI. In 1968 they moved to Galesville, WI. In 1971, together with her husband they began Norwinn Company in the basement of their home. As the business grew and expanded they moved to several different locations in Galesville until the business was sold in 1996. In their retirement Ron and Mary fulfilled a life-long dream of having a custom boat built and in the fall of 1997 took it down the Mississippi River to Longboat Key, FL returning the following spring by boat to Trempealeau, WI. Later they bought a home on the island and spent 10 winters enjoying the warmer Florida weather and entertaining family and friends.
Mary's favorite pastime was collecting Toby Jugs and peripheral items. At the time of her death she had the largest (1200) private collection in Wisconsin. For many years she belonged to the Royal Doulton Collectors Club of U.S. and The Character and Toby Jug Collectors Society of Australia.
Mary is survived by two children, Holly Murray Winn (Donald Finck) of Black River Falls, WI and Clifford Ralph Winn (Stephanie Burchell) of Hubertus, WI. She is further survived by a step-grandson Byron Finck of Black River Falls, sister-in-law Margy White Murray of Verona, WI, nephew William Thomas Murray II of Madison, WI and niece Heidi Ann Murray-Smith (Jamie) of Washington, D.C., Nephew Burbank Murray III of Waukesha, WI and Niece Laura Murray Peters (Terry) of Hartford, WI and her favorite cousin Elizabeth Sayre Blade Kappel of Rochester, MN. She is further survived by cousins and friends.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her brothers Burbank Murray II, and William Thomas Murray, her maternal grandparents Blanche Mary Scofield Biggar and Thomas Samuel Biggar, paternal grandparents Gov. William Henry David Murray and Alice Hearrell Murray, father-in-law Ralph Leonard Winn and mother-in-law Esther J. D'Amato Winn Anderson.
Funeral services will be held at 3:30 P.M. Thursday May 1, 2014, at the First Presbyterian Church in Galesville, WI, Rev. Michael Hibbs will officiate Burial will take place in Fulton Cemetery in Fulton, WI on Friday May 2, 2014 at 1:00 P.M. Friends may call from 4:00 P.M. until 8:00 P.M. Wednesday April 30, 2014, at the First Presbyterian Church in Galesville, WI and from 2:30 P.M. until 3:30 P.M. Thursday at the Church in Galesville.
In lieu of flowers, donations to the Trempealeau County Human Society, the Galesville Area Food Pantry or the Black River Memorial Hospice, in Mary's memory would be appreciated.

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Visitation

APR 30. 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM (CDT)

First Presbyterian Church
20237 W. Ridge Ave.
Galesville, WI 54630

Visitation

MAY 1. 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM (CDT)

First Presbyterian Church
20237 W. Ridge Ave.
Galesville, WI 54630

Funeral Service

MAY 1. 3:30 PM (CDT)

First Presbyterian Church
20237 W. Ridge Ave.
Galesville, WI 54630