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Today, 100 years later, it is operated by the third and fourth generation of Witt family members. Witt and Sons' grocery business which has evolved into Witt'™s Piggly Wiggly and Ace Hardware. A year later the young couple purchased the store where Patsy was employed and converted it into a meat market. In 1914 Patsy married the former Lillian Repinski. That store was located on property that now is part of the site of New Care Health Center. In 1911 Patsy graduated from Pio Noma College of Milwaukee, and got a job clerking at the Paust/Gould General Store in Crivitz. Patsy (Wenceslaus) Witt was two years old when his family settled in Milwaukee after immigrating to America, and 12 years old in 1895 when they moved to what is now Marinette County and Peter opened a meat market in Beaver. The papers are still among the Witt family'™s prized possessions. Marinette and Oconto counties were one in those days.

The story of the Witt family in America began in 1885, when Peter Witt and his family immigrated from a part of Poland that at the time was governed by Emperor Willhelm II as part of imperial Germany.Īccording to citizenship papers filed in Oconto County in 1906, Patsy Witt was born in Germany in 1883, with the actual given name of Wenceslaus Alphonse Witt. on July 4 will immediately be followed by by an alumni game pitting graduates of Crivitz High School Wolverines against their arch rival Wausaukee Rangers. Dedication ceremonies for the Patsy Witt Field at 2 p.m. They also have purchased naming rights along with Pat Witt of Witt Auto to the community'™s newest softball field to commemorate the the man who founded the family business. The Witts have invited the entire community to join in their Centennial Celebration by providing the biggest fireworks display ever in the the community to be shown after dusk on Saturday, July 4 at Legion Park in Crivitz. Daughter Kari Kosir is so far not involved, nor are Jack and Loretta'™s daughters Stacie, Marni and Nicole, who are all married and following medical careers in the Green Bay area. The fourth generation family members getting started in the business are two of Nick and Sally'™s offspring, Garrett Witt and Rebecca Zillges.

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As Jack puts it, 'The store today has come full circle, back to its beginnings as a general store.' Much like the original business, it offers a full line of groceries and other supplies, including paints, lawn equipment, fishing and hunting gear, some clothing, and hardware. Today the business is owned and operated by Patsy'™s grandsons, Jack and Nick Witt, with their wives Loretta and Sally. Witt and Sons family business that has evolved into what today is Witt'™s Piggly Wiggly, Ace Hardware and Crivitz Subway Shop. Witt Family Marks 100 Years Of Grocery Business In Crivitz Issue Date: JIt was 100 years ago this year that Patsy Witt and his bride, Lillian Repinski, purchased the Paust/Gould General Store in Crivitz and founded the W. THE CITY REBORN FROM THE ASHES OF AMERICA'S MOST DISASTROUS FOREST FIRE * WIAA Softball Tournament Starts Thursday at Goodman Diamond * Team and Individual Champions Crowned at State Track & Field * Peshtigo's Peters Is Packerland Softball Player of the Year * Marinette's Schreiner Named NEC Soccer Player of the Year Peshtigo Times Wisconsin Community Newspaper