Herman Danczyk
Herman Martin Danczyk, 75 age, Hwy. N, Marathon, walked into the arms of the Lord, on Monday, Oct. 30, after an untimely death while making firewood to heat the family home.
Herman was born July 29, 1948, at St. Michaels Hospital, Stevens Point, eighth child of the late Leo Stephen and Theresa (Gburek) Danczyk. His mother died from cancer when he was six years old. He attended Cole and Guenther country schools, and graduated in 1966 from Mosinee High School. He also completed continuing educational courses at the NorthCentral Technical College in Wausau and a home inspection course in Waukesha.
He met his wife, Sandy, after they stood up together for his brother Chester’s wedding in 1968. He married Sandra M. Stencil on August 28, 1971, at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, Edgar. Together they had three children: Shelly (Dan Heerts), Christopher (Audra Tompkins) Danczyk and Scott (Tammy) Danczyk. They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 2021. He was always proud that he picked the perfect girl to have a family with, work together, enjoy spending summers fishing together and grow old with.
Herman was employed with the Mosinee Ranger Station 1966-1970, Wisconsin Fuel & Light Company-15 years as a gas service technician, 12 years as an energy consultant for residential customers, worked three years at Energy Discoveries as a commercial consultant and home inspector and was employed for 9 years at Wisconsin Public Service as a Designer 1, for Commercial Electrical and Natural Gas Services and Main Extensions. He had a total of 39.5 years working for utility companies. Together with his wife Sandy, they owned Dansten L.L.P. Rental Properties in Mosinee for 20 years. They also farmed ginseng with his brothers Louie and Ambrose for 20 years.
His interests included hunting deer, duck, goose and fishing. He enjoyed riding his 2006 Harley Electric Glide, 2020 Harley Trike and 1968 BSA motorcycles. He was known as a “MacGyver”, someone who could fix anything and everything. He built their home in 1973. He loved old-fashioned Polish home cooking and every flavor of pie! He enjoyed a cold Point beer and could make a great old fashioned! He enjoyed Sandy’s flowers as much as she did and faithfully trimmed, transplanted and watered them. He liked a well-trimmed moustache and beard, his hair cut short, shirts with the top button open and his sleeves rolled up, western boots, camo caps, Old Spice and Musk after-shave, getting a farmer’s tan, a firm mattress and a feather pillow, wood heat, buttered popcorn, soft ice cream, western movies, Ford vehicles, John Deere tractors, Wrangler jeans, jean shirts, Craftsman tools-neatly arranged in his tool box, every tool put back in its designated place, a clean organized house, to sleep late and the color blue. As a child he raised rabbits, at one time having 144 of them, and would sell the meat to grocery stores. For three years, he worked at the Mosinee Ranger Station after high school, manning the fire tower. He loved it when his children would value his input and seek out his help on projects. He liked to love-sit his grandchildren, camping, teaching his grandchildren to hunt, fish and waterski. He taught all his children and grandchildren how to fillet a fish. He enjoyed carpentry. He liked stopping at religious shrines throughout the United States, but especially at the Our Lady of Champion in Champion, and the shrines on Apparition Hill and Cross Mountain in Medjugorje, Bosnia Herzegovina. He felt blessed to have a wife that enjoyed working, fishing and traveling with him. They travelled to
