FOUNTAIN CITY, Wis. — Gerald Francis “Jerry” Baures, 87, of Fountain City, a welder and engineer at Warner Swasey in Winona and later Badger Equipment, died at Gundersen hospital in La Crosse. He attended Bluff Siding School, Cotter School, and Winona High School. He deployed to the Korean conflict as a U.S. Army train engineer to deliver troops and supplies. After retiring from Badger Equipment after 46 years, he worked his parents’ Holstein farm in Bluff Siding. He also worked his own farm. He was a Veterans of Foreign Wars member in Cochrane.
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