Louise Judith Lulack

Louise Judith Lulack was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin on November 15, 1936, the first of three daughters of Nello and Carmella Cecchini. Louise died of complications of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis on March 6, 2014. She graduated with honors from Mary D. Bradford High School in Kenosha and then went on to the University of Wisconsin obtaining her BS and Physical Therapy Certification. After she interned at hospitals in Tennessee, Michigan and Illinois she worked at the Sheboygan Community Hospital for a year. She than continued her career at the Wisconsin Neurological Rehabilitation Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin. While in Madison she met her future husband, Jacob V. Lulack, who was studying medicine at the University. They married on August 29, 1959 and continued to live in Madison. She then became employed as the Consulting Physiotherapist at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals’ Neurosurgical Department for three years. Upon her husbands graduation from medical school she moved with him to Vermont and worked at the St. Albans Hospital Physical Therapy Department. Her next move was to head up the Rehabilitation Center at the University Hospitals. She then headed West to Plains, Montana where her husband opened up the Rittnour Medical Clinic where she continued her employment and consulted at surrounding hospitals until her retirement.

They had two children, Anthony M. and Juan B., who are both in business in Plains and provided four grandchildren to be spoiled by “Nana”. Louise had a credo – Do good and help whoever you can. Montana Woman’s Club, Ducks Unlimited, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, St James Parish, NAVDHA, PCNA, Shakespeare in the Parks, Plains Swim Team and Little Bitterroot Services all benefited from her credo. Besides her Pudelpointers and hunting, she loved TOPS, Curves, Jazzercize, traveling to Europe and back home to her roots in Wisconsin where sisters, aunts and nieces and nephews brought many a smile to her face. She took in exchange students from Sweden, Mexico, Poland and Russia and loved baking cookies for the Plains School teachers. A dozen high school boys was not an unusual sight at her supper table. Watching her son, Juan, play football for Western Montana College was never to be missed no matter where.

Louise is survived by her two children, daughter-in-law Karrie and four grandchildren, Chayton, Cree, Pepper and Jacob. Her Italian heritage instilled in her heart “Luva yu famaalee” and her sisters Kathy and Angie and her aunts were forever in her thoughts as were the cousins, nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents Nello and Carmella.

A memorial service will be held at St. James Parish in Plains on March 14, 2014 at 11 a.m. with a dinner to follow at Plains VFW. Arrangements are under the care of Sunset Hills Funeral Homes. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to Plains Woman’s Club for use of “Shakespeare in the Park.”