MAURINE SHEGONEE

MAURINE SHEGONEE

     Maurine Shegonee, 75, died at home Thursday, June 9, 2022, surrounded by her loving family and caregivers.

     Maurine was born April 22, 1947, in Wisconsin Rapids to Charles and Mary (Smith) Shegonee. Maurine was adopted at birth and raised in the ways of the Ho-Chunk people by her mom, Emmaline Claire Wilson Twinn. It was Emily who instilled all the wonderful motherly values and sense of family in Maurine, who in turn was a guiding light and special example for her children and grandchildren. Emily was the driving force in who Maurine was to become. Maurine was rich in life, happy in her work and generous to a fault with both her time and talents, reasons she became such a wonderful stepmom and foster parent as well. She was admired for her lifelong friendships. She was a woman of integrity and honesty. She was and independent woman and strong-willed.

     I mentioned happy in her work, except for the long second shifts that kept her busy at night, only to come home and work at her weaving or beadwork through the night in order to be up for breakfast before sending the kids to school and then finally finding time to sleep, relentlessly a hard worker and a selfless woman sacrificing for her children and others so they wouldn’t have to.

     Working at night was also her creative time, as Maurine was not only a craftswoman, but her designs and ways of expressing herself made her a true artisan, particularly in her weaving and yarn-work as well as her beadwork. She spent alone time reading and doing large print crossword puzzles. Maurine was never simple (though she liked to think so), as she was always humble.

     Surviving Maurine are her children, John William Shegonee, Christine (Christopher) Sweet, Jessica Lynn Stacy and Daniel Charles Stacy; her stepchildren, George Owen Stacy Jr. and Melanie Rose Stacy; her 15 grandchildren Kristopher John Lockman, Gariel D. Shegonee, Monte Z. Shegonee, Maleana Cloud, Joshua Cloud Jr., Jaret J. Decorah, Abigail M. Shegonee, Jaelyn Cloud, Cecilia Cloud, Dash Alfred Stacy, Dannika Mon Funmaker, George Preston Stacy, Ruby Maurine Funmaker, Zachara Noreen Stacy and Jesse Eugene Stacy; her two great-grandchildren, Blake Shegonee and Kiyah Cloud. Further surviving Maurine is a lone sibling, her brother, Charles Shegonee Jr.; as well as her very precious great-grandpup, Oliver Mittens.

     She was preceded in death by her parents and her other siblings, Bonnie Twinn, Neoma J. Shegonee Denny and Rhonda Marie Shegonee Burwell.

     Services for Maurine were held at the District 1 Community Center Saturday morning, June 11, 2022, following a visitation at 10 a.m. Clayton Winneshiek presided, with burial following the service at the UCC Church Cemetery.

            The Buswell Funeral Home, 106 S. Second Street in Black River Falls, WI, assisted the family, 715 284-2231.