Jeanine M. Hendricks

Hazel Green, Wisconsin Jeanine M. “Jeanie” Hendricks, 69, of rural Hazel Green, Wisconsin, died unexpectedly Friday, August 6, 2010, at Sacred Heart Hospital in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Services will be 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, August 10, 2010, at Immaculate Conception Church in Kieler with Rev. Bernard Rott officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call from 3-9 p.m. Monday at Casey Funeral Home & Cremation Services in Cuba City where the parish wake service will be at 2:45 p.m. Friends may also call from 9:00-10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Immaculate Conception Parish Center before the service. Jeanie was born on August 31, 1940, in Jamestown Township, the daughter of LeRoy “Bud” and Arlene (Runde) Burlage. She married Edward J. Hendricks on November 28, 1959, in Kieler. They farmed together for 25 years. She worked at Mike Finnin Ford from where she retired and was currently working at Swiss Colony. Jeanie graduated from St. Joseph’s Academy in Dubuque. She was an EMT and served as an officer of the Cuba City Rescue Squad. She also was a member of Immaculate Conception Parish and a former member of St. Rose Parish and the Ladies Sodality. Jeanie’s foundation for her life was faith and family. She never missed Sunday Mass or her daily rosary. Her faith and spiritual guidance served to mentor her children, grandchildren and nine godchildren, as well as her second family, The Brothers’ Girls. Jeanie loved to shop and was the perennial bargain hunter, always getting things at bottom dollar. She loved to do many crafts but her favorite was to scrapbook her grandkids’ sporting feats and personal accomplishments. Sewing was her forte’. She made many blankets, costumes, lounge pants and home decorations. Those decorations always included every hue of purple, her favorite color. Tending her many flower beds and gardening was a hobby she and Ed enjoyed together including canning and freezing the “fruits of their labor”. Her greatest passion was her thirteen grandkids whom she worshipped. Traveling to their sporting events was on their everyday agenda. She loved to play games, cards or dice with them and it was never too late to get in another game of cards. All this and more have provided many memories for them to cherish. She will be remembered as a strong willed, hard-working, organized, and doting wife, mother, grandmother, sister, and aunt. Those left to cherish her memory include her husband of 50 years, Ed, of Hazel Green; four daughters, Pam (Brad) Brugger, of Oregon, Wisconsin, Dr. Patti (Larry) Heer, of Platteville, Paula (Mike) Jansen, of Hazel Green, and Penny (friend Mike Ley) Hendricks, of Platteville; two sons, Ed (Lori) Hendricks, of New Richmond, Wisconsin, and Ted (Marietta) Hendricks, of North Aurora, Illinois; a sister, Jody (Orv) Brothers, of Kieler; four brothers, Dick (Ruth) Burlage, Harry (Kim) Burlage, Jack (Mary Jo) Burlage, and Jim “Moose” (Joan) Burlage, all of Kieler; thirteen grandchildren, Christina and Megan Brugger, Jesse and Jarred Heer, Heather, Tyler, Haley and Tanner Jansen, Garret, Sydney and Kennedy Hendricks, and Jordan and Jake Hendricks; and a sister-in-law, Mary Jo (Wayne) Copeland, of Galena. She was preceded in death by her parents, LeRoy “Bud” and Arlene Burlage; her sister and brother-in-law, Jan and John Smith; her two brothers, Tom and Gerry Burlage; and her mother-in-law, Margie Hendricks.