2024 Tree of Love Honorees

The Midwest Medical Center Auxiliary Foundation extends a heartfelt thank you to all who supported our Tree of Love campaign. The tree shines as a symbol of community and Auxiliary support of Midwest Medical Center. It truly takes a village to accomplish this campaign. 

If you would like to donate to the Tree of Love campaign or the Midwest Medical Center Auxiliary, please visit: MMCGalena.org/TOL24. 
Mail checks to: Midwest Medical Center Auxiliary Foundation, 1 Medical Center Drive, Galena, IL 61036. You may also stop in the hospital gift shop, Whispering Willows.
 

2024 Tree of Love Honorees
*indicates in Memory of

James Adamec

Jerry & Pauline Allendorf *

Steve Allendorf*

Patricia Allen-Stewart

Geraldine Anthony*

Arzer Family

Wayne “Buck” Aurit*

Barbara Backman Tolle*

Janette Bader*

Ivan Badrov*

Janice Baker*

Marjorie Baker*

Ron Baker*

Bill Banich*

Gary Bartell*

Connie Basso*

Dale Bastian*

Jane & Dale Bastian*

Jane Bastian*

Vivian & Burnell Bastian*

Brent Bauer

Tracy Bauer

Michelle Berberet*

Vincent & Ann Berning*

Julie Berning*

Pam Bernstein*

George & Florence Bilek*

Michael Bjerkos*

Randy Bohnsack*

Ben & Kate Bohnsack*

Vernon & Ruth Bokemeier*

Syd Bolton*

Susan Bookless

George W. Bookless, Jr.*

Marian H. Botterman*

Patrick S. Botterman*

Robert A. Botterman*

Timothy Botterman*

Robert & Minnie Branch*

Beverly Brandt*

Kimberly Brashaw*

Paul Brashaw*

Neil Brashaw*

Gerda Brodl*

Jean (Argeson) Bronson*

George Bronson*

James Brown*

Barb Bruser*

Dick Buman*

Margaret Burmeister*

Bill & Margie Burroughs*

Dan Burrows*

Jim Buss*

Wally Buss*

Carol Bussan*

Greg Bussan*

Margaret Bussan*

Melvin Bussan*

Nadane J. Bussan*

Dorothy Calame

Jeanette Callahan*

Gene Calvert

Nancy Calvert

Shirley & Earl Campbell*

June Carlton*

Lauren Carney*

Clifford Carroll*

Ginny Carroll*

Jan Carroll

Catholic Daughters of the Americas*

Chet*

Max L. Chmielewski*

Joyce Christensen*

Shirley & Jim Christensen*

Sandra Clark

Ron Clough*

Ceil Cloven*

Cordon

John Connor*

Mary Lou Cook*

John Cooke*

Marge Cooke*

Sue Cording*

Darren Cordle*

Deceased Members of Court Isabella, CDA*

Rich Crandall*

Ida Mae Creighton*

Raymond Creighton*

Keith & Janet Croffoot*

Barbara Curzon*

Lynn Dahlgren

Jim Dalgarn*

Missy Dalgarn*

Mindy Dalgarn

Nikki Dalgarn

David & Loretta Davis*

Bob DeBord*

Jack & Vickie Decoursey

Russel A. Deliberto*

Art & Louise Dellabella*

Agnes Dempsey*

Edmund Dempsey*

Jean Dempsey*

Mary Deschang*

Marc DeYoung*

Allen & Winnie Dimon*

Melvin & Pat Dittmar*

Walter Dittmar*

Mary Dittmar*

Parents of Dr. & Mrs. Peter E. Doris*

Warren Dorn*

Maureen Dueland*

Marjorie Dugan

Gene & Helen Eaton*

Ruth Edington*

Darin Edington*

Robert “Bud” Edwards*

Bernice Edwards*

Norral & Mary Edwards*

Terry Edwards*

Roberta Efflandt*

Dale Egland*

Ardath Eidenschink*

Leon (Mike) Einsweiler*

Shirley Einsweiler*

Wayne R. Einsweiler*

George & Hilda Elliott*

Kathy Elmer

Ed & Reta Ersfeldt

Delbert Ertmer*

Kyle Ertmer*

Kathy Eustice*

Norman D. Faber*

Julia Faber

Trudy Farbstein*

William & Gloria Farrell

Arnold & Evelyn Feldermann

Bessie Fellenzer*

Donald Fellenzer*

Joe Fellenzer*

Margie Fellenzer*

Roland Fellenzer*

Ken & Marie Ferraro

Bernard & Dorothy Ferry*

Greg Fletcher*

Harold Foecking*

Jane Foecking*

Mary Foote

Forman Family*

Bill Francais*

Leo Francais

Ruth Frieders*

Frosty*

Gaber & Schleicher Families*

Virgil Gaber Family*

Bill Gehrts*

William E. Gehrts*

Evelyn Gehrts*

William M. Gehrts*

Anisia Gelsomio*

Nancy Giden

James & Ann Gillespie*

Ron Girot*

Eileen Glay*

Frances Glick*

Les & Effie Glick*

Millie L. Glick*

Robert R. Glick

Wayne Glick*

Eileen Gordon

Richard Gordon*

Bill Graham*

Mabel Graham*

Walter Graham*

The Grams Family

Alfred Green*

Gladys Green*

Wilma Green*

Bernard & Marie Greene*

Wayne Greene*

Paul & Carmella Gullone*

Gus (the dog)*

Hahn Family*

Kathleen Halford*

Arnold Halford*

John Michael Harmon*

The Families of Greg and Peggy Harmston

Harold Larson Family*

Helen Harris*

Ron Harwick*

Carey & Eliane Haustein

Landon Heim

Lila Heim

Dorothy Hellard*

Eric Heller*

Heller/Wubben*

Dolly Hellickson*

Tony Helman 

Helman Family

Ann Hendry*

Eileen Henrichs

Melanie Henrichs

Peter Henrichs

Willard & Marion Henze*

Martha Hey*

Bill Hiliger*

Jim & Joanne Hillard*

Ed & Betty Holland*

Alfred & Gladys Holland*

Albert & Katherine Holland*

Kathleen & Michael Holt

Kay & Bill Holmes*

Bob Horbach*

Colleen & David Howland

Karin Hughes*

Ron & Eileen Hughes*

Lance Huster

Mirko Ivanovic*

Ruth Jackson

Scott Jackson*

Shirley Jahncke*

Bertha Johnson*

Genevera Johnson*

Craig & Marilyn Johnson

Samantha Johnson*

Rosie Jones*

Jennifer Kaiser

Rita Kaiser*

Rita Mae Kaiser*

Eric & Debbie Kallback

The Rev. Jin Hee Kang

Robert Kasper*

Joe & Mary Kedzie*

Bill & Eileen Keeffer*

Marcellus & Irene Keleher*

Tom Kelly

James & Patricia Kelly*

William A. Kelly*

David Kern*

Louis Kieffer*

Gordon Kilgore*

Nanci Kincheloe

James Kirchner Family*

Andrew Kisting*

Ben Kochman*

Frieda Kochman*

Carole Koester*

Bob & Kathy Korte*

Amy Kovarik*

Laura Kowal*

Steven Kreiser*

Oscar Krug*

Elisabeth Krug*

Denny Krull*

Tina Kurt*

Jarrett LaCaeyse*

Laity Family*

Mary A. LaLoggia

Merlin & Maylou Lange*

Laurel C. Lawson*

L. James LeBlanc*

Edna Lenstra*

Brian Lenstra*

Ron Leonard*

George & Toby Leskanich*

Toby Leskanich*

Dan Levens*

Dee Levens*

Randy Levens*

Margie Liensdorf*

Sue Lighthart*

Barb Liles

Catherine & Otto Litt*

Rich Litt*

Tripp Logan*

Kathleen Long*

Art & Doris Lorenzen*

Allen B. Losey*

Barbara J. Losey*

William H. Losey*

Lorrane & Carol Lund

David R. Lund

Jim Lynn*

Nathan Lyons*

Owen & Ardelle Lyons*

Ken & Lil Lyons

Dick & Bobbie Maple*

Frank Markulin*

Robert & Eleanor Marsden*

Kathy Martelle*

Anne Martin*

Paul & Diana Mask

Rich Mattas*

Eileen McCarty

Howard McCarty*

Pat McCarty*

Deborah Kay McDaniel*

McFadden Family*

Ron McIntyre*

Edmund McIntyre*

Bernice McIntyre*

Zach & Terry McPoland*

Frances Meers*

Ralph & Virginia Mefford*

Fred Mehl*

Chris Meier*

Menard Family

Carmen Mendez

Blanche Meyer*

Leo & Hilda Michel*

Midwest Medical Employees

Michael Miesing*

Mike & Lori*

Harold & Pearl Miller*

Greg & Donna Miller

Elisabeth & Markus Miller

Daniel Miller*

Dr. M.G. & Marian Miller*

Thomas Miller*

H. Charles Miller*

Joseph W. Miller*

Rosemary & Homer Miller Family*

Miller Funeral Home

Miller-Steinke Funeral Home

Phil, Rosella, Bob Milligan*

Mary Mitchell*

MMC 2nd Floor Nursing Staff & 

    Physical Therapy

Ethel Montgomery*

Gordon Montgomery Sr.*

Robert E. Montgomery

Willie Montgomery*

Paul Moone*

Maria (Veugen) Moone*

Edward Moone*

George Moone*

Steve Moone*

John Moore*

Ann Mordini and Family

Esther Mortensen*

Catherine Muchie*

Mariel Muchie*

Ralph Muchow*

Bob & Mitzie Murphy*

Nora Murphy

Flavia & Jim Murray

Elizabeth Murray*

Julie Musich*

Stephen Musich*

Beth Raben Musich*

Helen Nack

Mary Nelson

Frank Netzel*

Hester Newton*

Jane Newton

P. Carter Newton

Paul Newton

Sarah Newton*

Vincent Newton

Sharon Nicklaus*

Marjorie Noland*

Will Norton*

Marjorie Nuland*

Pam Ohms*

Dave Oldenburg*

Leo & Rose Oldenburg*

Duane Olivier*

Ruth Olkiwiecz*

Elaine A. Olson*

Robert R. Olson*

Connie A. O’Neill*

Lenstra Orrin

Donald, Doris, Anne, Paul & 

    Carolyn Ortscheid*

Bridgette Otterbacher

Eunice Fitch Parrish*

Parrott Family*

Betty Lou Patterson*

Lula Pavone*

George Paxton*

Steve Paxton*

Eileen Peebles & Delbert      Eustice*

Fred Perry Jr.*

Mary Peschang*

Victor Peters

Sandy Peterson*

Walter Petersen*

Erma Petsche*

Marvin Petsche*

Danny Pettengill*

David W. Phillips*

Debbie Phillips*

Judy Piech*

Leo & Leona Piekut*

Jeanette Pierce*

Clem Pink*

Dorothy & Cletus Piquette Family*

Matthew Podnar*

Stephan Pool*

Anne Wyatt Poston*

Wyatt Potter*

Prairie Ridge of Galena Staff

Prairie Ridge Residents

Steve, Ginny, & Alan Prather*

Herb Preiser & Family*

Robert C. Price*

Pyrczak*

Kathy Randecker*

Butchie Rayhorn*

Dennis Rayhorn

Cindy & John Ready

Doug Rector

Bill Reed*

Bill Reese*

William Reid*

William R. Reid*

Lori Renn*

Don & Betty Richardson*

Jean Richardson*

John Richardson*

Marie Robbins*

John Robbins*

Jane Roberts*

Onae Rogers*

Marty Rojemann*

Art & Marguerite Rooney*

Brian Roth*

Pauline Roth*

Sally Roth*

John Saam

Nancy Sampson*

Louise Sanders*

Allen Scarleski*

Ruby Schaible*

Scott T. Schaible*

Marion Schaible*

Ruth & Louis Schaller*

Mary Schaller*

Sharon Schiffman*

Clarence & Ann Schmid*

Lilly Schmit*

Mabel Schmitt*

Vince Schmitt

Schneider Family*

Carl B. Schoenhard Jr.*

Erin A. Schoenhard*

Anne & Allie Scholz

Scholz Family

Berti Schriber*

Debbie Schroman

Ronnie Schromen*

Heidi Scott

Betty Scott*

Bob Scott*

Walter Scott*

James Sebanc*

Joseph Sebastian*

Brian Sedlak*

Frank & Denise Sedlak Brian Sedlak*

Daniel R. Sertle*

Dan Sertle*

Gerri, Jonathon, & Steph Sessa

Bernie Seyferlich*

Herbert A. Shay, Jr.*

Helen Sherman*

Tom, Donna & Chuck Sherrard*

Clint Sitzmann*

Raymond Skeeter, Sr.*

Lorraine Skoglund*

Bud & Carol Smith*

Doyle Smith*

Ken Smith*

Phyllis Smith*

David & Tim Smith*

Carol Smith*

Dorothy Smith, RN*

Victor Soat*

John Speaker*

Denise Spielman*

Barry Spillane*

Dave Spillane*

Ron & Rose Spillane*

Eugine Sproule*

Nicholas M. Sproule*

Geno & Megan Sproule*

Bill Staat*

Hal Stadel*

Helen Stadel*

Richard Staver*

Jane Stegall*

Allen & Jeannine Steinke

Jeannine Steinle*

William Stenzel*

Marie Stenzel*

Stills Family*

Roberta Stocks*

Kenny Stodden*

Melrose Stodden*

Jennifer Stoffregen*

June Stoner*

Bob & Sharon Strahlman

Dorothy Swanson*

Debby Syoen*

Dave Szablewski*

Stella Teasdale*

Keith Teasdale*

Tim Teasdale*

Danny Joe Teasdale*

Mary Ann Thorsen*

Mary Tibbatt*

Adam R. Ties*

Sharon J. Tranel*

Jackie Trautwein*

Chuck & Connie Travis

Germaine Trimbourne*

Al Turek*

Mary P. Turner*

Richard Turner*

Wayne Turner*

Helen Turner*

Kay & Harve Uhen*

Hans Van Beers*

Helen Van Zee*

Charles & Sylvia Vandermillen*

Socorro Vasquez Develasco*

Deceased Members of VFW Auxiliary 2665*

Doris Anne Vincent*

James & Mary Jane Vincent*

Steve Vincent*

Matthew Vincent*

Frank R. Vincent*

Dorie Virtue*

Orrin Wadleigh*

Ora Wadleigh*

Dr. Frank Waites*

Joseph Wearmouth*

Helen Wearmouth*

Linda Weeder

Clarence Weis*

Pat & Bud Wells*

Dr. Mike and Sheila Wells & Family

Gordy & Helen Werner*

Kristine Ruth Wesley*

Leo, Mildred & Ron Westemeier*

Herb Westemeier*

Sharon Westenfelder

Grant Westenfelder, MD*

Gerald White

Tom Wienen*

Harold & Mary Wienen*

Wayne Wienen*

Rose Wills*

Wilbur & Alice Wills*

Betty Willy*

Ray Willy*

Bill Wilmarth*

William C. Wilmarth*

Gerri Wilson*

Bill Wilson*

Lucille Winter*

Donald & Genevive Wood*

Millie Wood*

Jeff & Maddie Wood

Richard Wood*

Patricia G. Woodard*

Brian I. Woodard*

Pat Woodard*

Otto Wrabl*

Lynnette Wren*

Marie Wright

Anne Wyatt Poston*

Orrie & Ada Yoder*

Vickie Yoekel

Juanita Yonda*

Mr. & Mrs. David Zaya

William B. Zaya

Frank & Connie Zehnder*

 

Special thanks to our sponsors: First Community Bank of Galena / Apple River State Bank, Carol Smith Memorial, Illinois Bank & Trust, and United Churches of Galena.