At eleven minutes after 11:00 PM on November 11, 2022, Veterans Day during a snowstorm, Gene V. Wolsky died.

Praise the Lord for His loving kindness for preparing a place for him and rescuing Gene for a long fight from pancreatic cancer.

Burial will be at SpringVale Meadows farm, 4 miles south of exit 302 of I-94 on Hwy 32 on Sunday May 28th Memorial Day weekend. Open visitation will be from 2 – 4 PM. A sandwich buffet is being catered by Wetch Catering of Tower City.  A Eulogy at 4 PM will be followed by Military Service at the grave site.

Gene was born in the midst of a snow storm on January 20, 1933, Inauguration Day, 9 miles south of the farm he and his wife Joan of almost 52 years lived and farmed. They were married on Valentines Day February 14th 1971.

Construction, driving school buses, inventing, restoration of old farm windmills and farming were some of his passions and favorite memories. He spent two years in Germany with the 586th Engineer Floating Bridge company. During this time he toured Europe and this began his love of gardening and growing trees and vines. He was a conservationist. Saddened by the sight of farmers destroying groves of trees to gain a few feet of land. Trees, which held back the eroding winds, trapped moisture in the winter, home for animals and birds who flew thousands of miles to nest again where they had been born. Even while being killed they were giving off life sustaining Oxygen to the one pushing them into piles to be burned.  Gene loved showing visitors the multitude of trees and shrubs he grew at SpringVale Meadow and Arboretum.  A place to rest after a hard days work and listen to the wind in trees and watch the sunsets paint pictures across the heavens.  He was planning to start a program at SpringVale Meadows where you would be able to buy and name a tree for a child or any special event, place a memento on a branch and watch the tree and memories grow together.