Daughter of the late Fred W. and Eleanor Kollath Grunwald, she attended public and parochial grade schools in Milwaukee and was a high school graduate of Milwaukee University School. she received a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from Milwaukee Downer College.
After graduating from college, Eleanor was awarded a fellowship in chemistry at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. At Wellesley, she taught organic chemistry and qualitative analysis laboratory. She was awarded a Master of Arts in chemistry degree from Wellesley College.
She then returned to Wisconsin and was employed by the Institute of Paper Chemistry in Appleton as a research assistant in cellulose chemistry and as a German translator.
She later worked as a research and development chemist at Paul-Lewis Laboratory in Milwaukee, where she met her husband Roland.
On September 25th, 1949, she married Roland J. Kuhn at St. James Evangelical Lutheran Church in Milwaukee. The couple owned and operated the Kuhn Family homestead farm in the Town of Rhine from 1952 until retirement.
Eleanor was a woman of many interests, including agriculture, the natural sciences, genealogy, local history, the history of science, photography. reading and writing. She was a member of the Amateur Press Association, the Elkhart Lake Study club, the Sheboygan County Historical Society, the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology and a 50-year emeritus member of the American Chemical Society. She loved the outdoors and spending time in her gardens. She was an avid correspondent and was for many years a special columnist for the Plymouth Review and the Depot Dispatch. And she was a loving wife and a devoted mother and grandmother.
Survivors include her three sons, Weldon (Cheryl) of Fountain City, Fred of West Bend, and Hans of the Town of Rhine. Five grandchildren. Her husband preceded Eleanor in death on June 13, 2001. On brother Frederick and one sister Gertrude also preceded her in death.
Obit in the Sheboygan Press 22nd February, 2003.
After graduating from college, Eleanor was awarded a fellowship in chemistry at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. At Wellesley, she taught organic chemistry and qualitative analysis laboratory. She was awarded a Master of Arts in chemistry degree from Wellesley College.
She then returned to Wisconsin and was employed by the Institute of Paper Chemistry in Appleton as a research assistant in cellulose chemistry and as a German translator.
She later worked as a research and development chemist at Paul-Lewis Laboratory in Milwaukee, where she met her husband Roland.
On September 25th, 1949, she married Roland J. Kuhn at St. James Evangelical Lutheran Church in Milwaukee. The couple owned and operated the Kuhn Family homestead farm in the Town of Rhine from 1952 until retirement.
Eleanor was a woman of many interests, including agriculture, the natural sciences, genealogy, local history, the history of science, photography. reading and writing. She was a member of the Amateur Press Association, the Elkhart Lake Study club, the Sheboygan County Historical Society, the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology and a 50-year emeritus member of the American Chemical Society. She loved the outdoors and spending time in her gardens. She was an avid correspondent and was for many years a special columnist for the Plymouth Review and the Depot Dispatch. And she was a loving wife and a devoted mother and grandmother.
Survivors include her three sons, Weldon (Cheryl) of Fountain City, Fred of West Bend, and Hans of the Town of Rhine. Five grandchildren. Her husband preceded Eleanor in death on June 13, 2001. On brother Frederick and one sister Gertrude also preceded her in death.
Obit in the Sheboygan Press 22nd February, 2003.
Daughter of the late Fred W. and Eleanor Kollath Grunwald, she attended public and parochial grade schools in Milwaukee and was a high school graduate of Milwaukee University School. she received a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from Milwaukee Downer College.
After graduating from college, Eleanor was awarded a fellowship in chemistry at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. At Wellesley, she taught organic chemistry and qualitative analysis laboratory. She was awarded a Master of Arts in chemistry degree from Wellesley College.
She then returned to Wisconsin and was employed by the Institute of Paper Chemistry in Appleton as a research assistant in cellulose chemistry and as a German translator.
She later worked as a research and development chemist at Paul-Lewis Laboratory in Milwaukee, where she met her husband Roland.
On September 25th, 1949, she married Roland J. Kuhn at St. James Evangelical Lutheran Church in Milwaukee. The couple owned and operated the Kuhn Family homestead farm in the Town of Rhine from 1952 until retirement.
Eleanor was a woman of many interests, including agriculture, the natural sciences, genealogy, local history, the history of science, photography. reading and writing. She was a member of the Amateur Press Association, the Elkhart Lake Study club, the Sheboygan County Historical Society, the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology and a 50-year emeritus member of the American Chemical Society. She loved the outdoors and spending time in her gardens. She was an avid correspondent and was for many years a special columnist for the Plymouth Review and the Depot Dispatch. And she was a loving wife and a devoted mother and grandmother.
Survivors include her three sons, Weldon (Cheryl) of Fountain City, Fred of West Bend, and Hans of the Town of Rhine. Five grandchildren. Her husband preceded Eleanor in death on June 13, 2001. On brother Frederick and one sister Gertrude also preceded her in death.
Obit in the Sheboygan Press 22nd February, 2003.
After graduating from college, Eleanor was awarded a fellowship in chemistry at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. At Wellesley, she taught organic chemistry and qualitative analysis laboratory. She was awarded a Master of Arts in chemistry degree from Wellesley College.
She then returned to Wisconsin and was employed by the Institute of Paper Chemistry in Appleton as a research assistant in cellulose chemistry and as a German translator.
She later worked as a research and development chemist at Paul-Lewis Laboratory in Milwaukee, where she met her husband Roland.
On September 25th, 1949, she married Roland J. Kuhn at St. James Evangelical Lutheran Church in Milwaukee. The couple owned and operated the Kuhn Family homestead farm in the Town of Rhine from 1952 until retirement.
Eleanor was a woman of many interests, including agriculture, the natural sciences, genealogy, local history, the history of science, photography. reading and writing. She was a member of the Amateur Press Association, the Elkhart Lake Study club, the Sheboygan County Historical Society, the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology and a 50-year emeritus member of the American Chemical Society. She loved the outdoors and spending time in her gardens. She was an avid correspondent and was for many years a special columnist for the Plymouth Review and the Depot Dispatch. And she was a loving wife and a devoted mother and grandmother.
Survivors include her three sons, Weldon (Cheryl) of Fountain City, Fred of West Bend, and Hans of the Town of Rhine. Five grandchildren. Her husband preceded Eleanor in death on June 13, 2001. On brother Frederick and one sister Gertrude also preceded her in death.
Obit in the Sheboygan Press 22nd February, 2003.
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