WABASHA, Minn. – A man who drowned in the Weaver Bottoms has been identified as Victor Dale Grabau, 89, of the rural Indian Point neighborhood across the Mississippi River near Cochrane, Wisconsin. Deputies had been called to the Weaver Bottoms backwaters Monday evening for an unoccupied motorized fishing boat going around in circles. Grabau’s body was found in the water nearby. His family said he loved fishing. He was retired from the South St. Paul Schools, where he had been a teacher, coach and dean.
Grabau. Death attributed death to drowning.