Port Passings

Capt. Archibald W. Kausch, 81, of Duluth, died July 27. Capt. Kausch immigrated from Germany to New York City and settled in Duluth in 1959 upon the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway. He served as a stevedore, an independent contractor for several shipping agents, a U.S. health inspector, a German Lloyd's Insurance inspector and a pioneer in the sightseeing tour business during his long tenure on the Duluth waterfront.

Capt. David A. Johnson, 69, formerly of Duluth, died July 7. He was a retired captain of the Presque Isle, operated by the USS Great Lakes Fleet, Inc., Duluth, and also was a former ship pilot.

Thomas Vittoria Jr., 34, of Duluth, died August 1. He had been a longshoreman at the Port since 1992 and was employed by Lake Superior Warehousing Co., Inc. Prior to that he was a laborer with Local 1091.

State Rep. Willard M. Munger, 88, of Duluth, died July 11. Rep. Munger was the longest serving state legislator, representing District 7-A in the Minnesota House for 42 years. Early in his career he had served as a state grain inspector for the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, and as a boat construction foreman at Walter Butler Shipyards.

Ron Rudolph, 60, of Deerfield, Ill., died July 29. He had served as the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation's Great Lakes representative in Chicago for 15 years, and worked with Duluth-Superior Port officials on numerous marketing and promotional projects.