Wallace (Wally) Louis Ahlborn passed away at his home in Munising on Saturday, March 17, 2012 at the age of 83. Wally was born on May 5, 1928 in Hammond, Indiana, to Gertrude and Louis Ahlborn.
In 1945, Wally joined the Army Air Corps and was stationed in Fairbanks and Shemya, Alaska, where he was assigned to the weather corps and attained the rank of Sergeant. Upon his honorable discharge, Wally moved to Chicago and enrolled in the Ray Vogue School of Art, studying calligraphy. While there, he met his future bride, Jane Webber. Less than a year later they married and lived in Hammond for a short time. After the birth of their first child, they moved to Munising (Jane's home town) where they lived on Varnum Street, the "Stucco Building", then Diaper Alley, and finally settling in and raising their four children at the top of Cemetery Hill. Everyone knew Wally as "Scoop" when he became a reporter for the Munising News, then news director for radio station WMAB. In 1963 he also worked as a reporter for WDBC in Escanaba while working full-time as an insurance agent for Metropolitan Life.
He was preceded in death by Jane, his loving bride of 56 years. Wally is survived by his four children: Fred, Greg, Diane and Tim; grand children Heidi, Jennifer, Shawn, and Joshua; great grandchildren Ivory and Zoee.
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In 1945, Wally joined the Army Air Corps and was stationed in Fairbanks and Shemya, Alaska, where he was assigned to the weather corps and attained the rank of Sergeant. Upon his honorable discharge, Wally moved to Chicago and enrolled in the Ray Vogue School of Art, studying calligraphy. While there, he met his future bride, Jane Webber. Less than a year later they married and lived in Hammond for a short time. After the birth of their first child, they moved to Munising (Jane's home town) where they lived on Varnum Street, the "Stucco Building", then Diaper Alley, and finally settling in and raising their four children at the top of Cemetery Hill. Everyone knew Wally as "Scoop" when he became a reporter for the Munising News, then news director for radio station WMAB. In 1963 he also worked as a reporter for WDBC in Escanaba while working full-time as an insurance agent for Metropolitan Life.
He was preceded in death by Jane, his loving bride of 56 years. Wally is survived by his four children: Fred, Greg, Diane and Tim; grand children Heidi, Jennifer, Shawn, and Joshua; great grandchildren Ivory and Zoee.
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Wallace (Wally) Louis Ahlborn passed away at his home in Munising on Saturday, March 17, 2012 at the age of 83. Wally was born on May 5, 1928 in Hammond, Indiana, to Gertrude and Louis Ahlborn.
In 1945, Wally joined the Army Air Corps and was stationed in Fairbanks and Shemya, Alaska, where he was assigned to the weather corps and attained the rank of Sergeant. Upon his honorable discharge, Wally moved to Chicago and enrolled in the Ray Vogue School of Art, studying calligraphy. While there, he met his future bride, Jane Webber. Less than a year later they married and lived in Hammond for a short time. After the birth of their first child, they moved to Munising (Jane's home town) where they lived on Varnum Street, the "Stucco Building", then Diaper Alley, and finally settling in and raising their four children at the top of Cemetery Hill. Everyone knew Wally as "Scoop" when he became a reporter for the Munising News, then news director for radio station WMAB. In 1963 he also worked as a reporter for WDBC in Escanaba while working full-time as an insurance agent for Metropolitan Life.
He was preceded in death by Jane, his loving bride of 56 years. Wally is survived by his four children: Fred, Greg, Diane and Tim; grand children Heidi, Jennifer, Shawn, and Joshua; great grandchildren Ivory and Zoee.
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In 1945, Wally joined the Army Air Corps and was stationed in Fairbanks and Shemya, Alaska, where he was assigned to the weather corps and attained the rank of Sergeant. Upon his honorable discharge, Wally moved to Chicago and enrolled in the Ray Vogue School of Art, studying calligraphy. While there, he met his future bride, Jane Webber. Less than a year later they married and lived in Hammond for a short time. After the birth of their first child, they moved to Munising (Jane's home town) where they lived on Varnum Street, the "Stucco Building", then Diaper Alley, and finally settling in and raising their four children at the top of Cemetery Hill. Everyone knew Wally as "Scoop" when he became a reporter for the Munising News, then news director for radio station WMAB. In 1963 he also worked as a reporter for WDBC in Escanaba while working full-time as an insurance agent for Metropolitan Life.
He was preceded in death by Jane, his loving bride of 56 years. Wally is survived by his four children: Fred, Greg, Diane and Tim; grand children Heidi, Jennifer, Shawn, and Joshua; great grandchildren Ivory and Zoee.
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