Laurie E. See

1960 - 2022

Laurie E. See

Sept. 8, 1960 - May 17, 2022

MADISON - Laurie E. See, died Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in the Madison, WI, area, where she lived most of her adult life, in the city she loved and called home.

She was born in Wausau, WI, on September 8, 1960, the only child of Doris J. (nee Ockerlander) and Robert A. "Bob" See. There she attended public schools, graduating from Wausau East High School in 1978. She studied History as an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was a member of Phi Alpha Theta National Honor Society in History, receiving her B.A. with distinction in 1981. As a graduate student, also at UW-Madison, Laurie studied first English and then Linguistics. She was a Foreign Language and Area Studies (Title VI) fellow, awarded her M.A. in Linguistics in 1989, and continued on with work toward the Ph.D. in Linguistics in Syntax, minoring in South Asian Language.

Laurie met Randall L. "Randy" Fuchs while studying at the Helen C. White Undergraduate Library at UW-Madison. They were married at the First Universalist Unitarian Church in Wausau, on March 26, 1983.

Laurie was the assistant to the editor for the volume Complex Predicates in South Asian Language, Manindra K. Verma (ed.), Manohar Publishers, 1993. She worked at a number of departments at UW-Madison, including the Linguistics Department, the Van Hise Graduate Reading Room, the German Department, the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, and at the UW Law School Library. She produced University Hindi language course materials using early Devanagari script fonts in the MS-DOS and early Windows era; she taught English as a Second Language (ESL) and tutored ESL, Linguistics, and German at the University; she volunteered at the Max Kade Center for German-American Studies. Outside of Madison, Laurie worked at the Wisconsin Valley Library Service and Marathon County Public Library in Wausau, and at all branches of the Charles County Public Library in Southern Maryland, near Washington D.C. In the sixth decade of her life, Laurie embarked on a new career. She became a Wall Street equities trader and investor.

Laurie is survived by her steadfast husband and beloved Aunt, Jeanette O. (See) Santoski. She is also survived by Sohinderjit Singh Sohal, who has been like a son to her, his brother Simranjit, and their family, who have been like family to her. Twenty-six cousins also survive.

According to her wishes, no services will be held.

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