Article: `A BIG TEDDY BEAR' Konrath was volunteer Slinger businessman was active in Rotary Club, scholarship program

One friend called him "Fuzzy" because Glenn Konrath was like a big, fuzzy teddy bear.

Konrath, one of Slinger's most active volunteers, died Friday of a heart attack. He was 46.

"I told him he was just a big teddy bear and he told me not to tell the kids that. He had to keep them in line somehow," said Russ Brandt of Brandt Printing in Slinger.

Konrath was a businessman. He owned Konrath Bus Service Slinger in addition to running a milk hauling service.

But his heart and soul were devoted to being a volunteer. And that was what Konrath spent a lot of time doing.

"We had a district Rotary meeting on Saturday and one of the district governors said he didn't think people in Slinger knew ...

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