Timothy E. Cuprisin

Cuprisin, Timothy E. Age 53, of Whitefish Bay. November 23, 2011. Loving partner of Sharon Boeldt. Beloved brother of John (Lucinda); Elaine (Bill Black); Ken; and David (Gretchen). Also survived by loving nieces and nephews. Proud godfather of Molly Boynton and Christopher Wlezien. He was preceded in death by his parents, John and Helen (Cordak) Cuprisin and niece Leslie Cuprisin. Tim was born in Chicago on Jan. 14, 1958.
He graduated from the University of Central Michigan in 1978 at the age of 20. An award-winning journalist, Tim started his career in 1978 at City News Bureau in Chicago as a police reporter. In 1980, he joined the Green Bay Press-Gazette. He worked at USA Today in Washington DC, and joined the Milwaukee Journal in 1986 as a general assignment reporter. Tim traveled to Eastern Europe on several projects including the fall of the Berlin Wall. In 1994, he began a daily column in the Milwaukee Journal (later the Journal Sentinel) focusing on TV and radio. In 2009, he joined Onmilwaukee.com.
Tim loved gardening, cooking, traveling and his Eastern European heritage. In 2009, he established the Lake Michigan Chapter of the Carpatho-Rusyn Society and served as the chapter's president. He was also working on a book about Andy Warhol, who shared his ethnic heritage, as well as a murder mystery set in Chicago.
A service and celebration of his life will be held at Schmidt & Bartelt Funeral Home, 10280 North Port Washington Road, in Mequon, on Saturday, December 3, at 11:00 AM. (www.schmidtandbartelt.com)
A scholarship in Tim's name will be established. In lieu of flowers, donations to the scholarship may be directed to the Hoffman York Foundation, 1000 North Water Street, Suite 1600, Milwaukee, WI, 53202; or to Mayo Clinic's Melanoma Research Program, www.mayoclinic.org/development; or mailed to Department of Development, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street, SW, Rochester, MN 55905.