Patricia “Patti” J. (Harris) Rasmussen, a longtime journalist who worked for several newspapers across Brown and Door counties, died Thursday, Aug. 4, following a decade-long battle with dementia. She was 70.
Born on Nov. 2, 1951, in Litchfield, Minn., Patti later moved to Wauwatosa, where she graduated from Wauwatosa East High School, before earning her bachelor’s degree in education from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. She married her husband, Alan Rasmussen, on Sept. 29, 1973.
During her 33-year journalism career, Patti worked as a reporter for the Rockton-Roscoe Herald, as special sections editor for the Green Bay News-Chronicle, and as an editor of Kewaunee County weeklies that included the Algoma Record Herald, Luxemburg News and the Kewaunee Enterprise. She also served as editor of the Door County Advocate and the Denmark Press and was an accomplished columnist. Her favorite topics were quirky anecdotes from daily life and her grandchildren’s antics.
Visitation will be held on Friday, Aug. 19, at the Proko-Wall Funeral Home in Green Bay and will continue Saturday, Aug. 20, at Christ Community Lutheran Church. Services will be held at a.m. Saturday at the church.
