I am a retired WI State Public Defender born in 1954. My paternal great grandfather, Carl Fuss, was the superintendent of Forest Hill cemetery in Madison...as was my grandfather, Alfred Fuss. My grandfather purchased Ideal Burial Vault Company after leaving the cemetery. Sadly, I never met him since he died in 1952. In 1964, my family moved to Michigan, and I went to high school in South Lyon. I worked for Ideal Vault most summers. It was run by my grandmother, Jeanette Fuss Schneider, and managed/staffed by my uncles Russell V. Fuss, Jack Fuss, Edward Fuss and my maternal great-grandfather, Carl Wirth. I've spent quite a bit of time in cemeteries..., working, observing rites, jumping into graves and on occasion, hunting rabbits and gophers with Uncle Ed. During my college years at the UW, I spent many a night at Resurrection Cemetery working out with the weights of the superintendent, Andy Hollibush. A rather macabre life.

I am a retired WI State Public Defender born in 1954. My paternal great grandfather, Carl Fuss, was the superintendent of Forest Hill cemetery in Madison...as was my grandfather, Alfred Fuss. My grandfather purchased Ideal Burial Vault Company after leaving the cemetery. Sadly, I never met him since he died in 1952. In 1964, my family moved to Michigan, and I went to high school in South Lyon. I worked for Ideal Vault most summers. It was run by my grandmother, Jeanette Fuss Schneider, and managed/staffed by my uncles Russell V. Fuss, Jack Fuss, Edward Fuss and my maternal great-grandfather, Carl Wirth. I've spent quite a bit of time in cemeteries..., working, observing rites, jumping into graves and on occasion, hunting rabbits and gophers with Uncle Ed. During my college years at the UW, I spent many a night at Resurrection Cemetery working out with the weights of the superintendent, Andy Hollibush. A rather macabre life.