West Bend Library Serves as Research Center for Cemetery Project

Link to July 4 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article, "Woman does historical research on area cemeteries".

Excerpt: Don't bother knocking on the door of Beverly Hetzel's home on weekday mornings or calling her on her cell phone.

She's probably occupied at the West Bend Public Library, buried in research for up to five hours every day, documenting where people are buried, how they died and how they lived.

Over the last 25 years, Hetzel, 68, has recorded the location of graves and the information contained on their tombstones throughout Washington, Ozaukee, Dodge, Sheboygan, Fond du Lac and other counties.

Dozens of those cemeteries are the final resting places of the area's first settlers whose locations are known to only a few people.