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Miss Kutschenreuter
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After secretarial school, Grace took a job in the palate! Besides,
emergency room at Milwaukee County Hos-
pital.The work was eye opening for someone who she couldn’t help
had lived a fairly sheltered life, but Grace reveled in
the excitement of a city hospital. Later, to the horror but be flattered
of her children, she would describe in graphic detail
some of the cases that arrived in the ER, including by the attention
the patient who came in with an arrow through his
of the ambulance
Outside the “cleaning shed” at Post Lake
drivers who vied
for the opportu-
nity to drive the
beautiful Miss
Kutschenreuter
home at night. With childhood friend, Katherine King
In 1941 Grace
was 24 years old and still living at home on Kavana-
ugh Place. Yearning for excitement, she persuaded
her parents to allow her to go to Post Lake unsuper-
vised. In good weather, she and her friends would
travel by train to Green Bay. There Grace’s child-
hood friend Katherine King, whose family had a
lake cabin, would board, and the group would travel
together to Post Lake. It was in those North Woods,
surrounded by tall pines and clear lakes, that Grace
felt most alive and uninhibited. She and her friends
would swim, fish, listen to music, or read on the
dock. Riding bicycles, they would venture into the
countryside, stopping to sip a beer or two at a local
tavern.
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