The Chancellor’s Office has received word that Alfred Soren Kolmos, 96, of Fairhaven Retirement Home in Whitewater, died there on Sunday, July 26. Alfred began work at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in January 1966 and retired in June 1986 as a professor of educational foundations.
Funeral services are at 11 a.m. Thursday, July 30, at First English Lutheran Church of Whitewater, with the Rev. Gerald Wendt officiating. Burial, with full military rites, will be at 2 p.m. at Hazel Ridge Cemetery in Elkhorn. Friends may call at the church from 9 a.m. until service time. A reception will immediately follow services at Jessica's Restaurant.
Betzer Funeral Home of Delavan is serving the Kolmos Family. Memorials can be sent to Whitewater Historical Society and First English Lutheran Church of Whitewater.
The campus flag will be lowered to half-staff on Thursday, July 30, in his honor.