{"id":146076,"date":"2026-05-03T15:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T20:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/?p=146076"},"modified":"2026-05-03T15:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T20:18:10","slug":"norbert-peschong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/norbert-peschong\/","title":{"rendered":"Norbert Peschong"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Norbert J. Peschong, age 72, of Sleepy Eye, passed away Saturday, May 2, 2026 at the Divine Providence Community Home in Sleepy Eye.<\/p>\n

Arrangements are pending.<\/p>\n

Minnesota Valley Funeral Home \u2013 North Chapel in New Ulm is assisting the family with arrangements.<\/p>\n

To leave an online condolence for his family, or to sign the guestbook, go to: www.mvfh.org<\/p>\n

Norbert John Peschong was born on February 24, 1954 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the fifth child (of six) and second son of Leon H. & Rita (Tracy) Peschong. Being of a devout Catholic family, Norbert attended grade school at St. Therese of the Little Flower Parish in Milwaukee, one year of high school at Marquette University, and three years at Pius XI High School in Milwaukee, where he was a member of the class of 1973. \u00a0After high school, Norbert attended the Milwaukee Area Technical College to become a tool & die maker. \u00a0He worked in the tool & die industry for several years before transitioning to general woodworking as a cabinetmaker. \u00a0He began installing and refinishing hardwood floors in 1977, running his business out of an old cheese factory.<\/p>\n

Norbert met his future wife, Angela Sun Hee Chang, in 1995. Norbert\u2019s priest-uncle, Fr. Norbert Tracy, S.J. was a missionary and co-founder of the Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea in the early 1960s. On one particular trip home in the 1990s to visit his family in Milwaukee, Fr. Norbert brought with him his secretary, Miss Angela Chang. \u00a0On that visit, Norbert and Angela took a liking to one another, and their romance began. \u00a0They were married in Milwaukee on January 20, 1996 by Fr. Norbert Tracy, S.J.<\/p>\n

Norbert felt inspired to move west from Milwaukee in late 1994, and on one particular trip west, he stopped in at St. Mary\u2019s Catholic Church in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota. \u00a0He immediately felt at home in St. Mary\u2019s church, and in 1995 built a new home in Sleepy Eye. \u00a0He and Angela moved into the new home on January 22, 1996.<\/p>\n

The Catholic faith was very important to Norbert. He had a strong devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Holy Rosary, the Brown Scapular, and the Traditional Latin Mass. Norbert became friends with many, many people in Sleepy Eye and the surrounding area through his hardwood flooring installation and refinishing business, which he called \u201cThe Joinery\u201d. \u00a0If it was wood, he could probably fix it. \u00a0Before his final illness, Norbert passed on his knowledge of hardwood flooring repair and installation to Geoffrey Ferk of Sleepy Eye. \u00a0Norbert also enjoyed woodcarving, collecting antique woodworking tools, smoking his pipe, playing chess and board games, cats, and in his younger years, bicycling and muscle cars. \u00a0He will be remembered not only for his good-natured, goofy sense of humor and being a practical joker, but also being dependable.<\/p>\n

Norbert is survived by his sisters Kathleen Lange, Joanne Thompson, Rita (Joel) Petersen, and Mary (John) Braunreiter, all of the Milwaukee area. \u00a0He is also survived by his nine nieces and nephews, Angela\u2019s siblings and her siblings\u2019 children in South Korea, special friend Judy L. Mathiowetz of Sleepy Eye, and his \u201cadopted nieces and nephews\u201d and many other friends from Milwaukee and Sleepy Eye and the surrounding area. \u00a0He is preceded in death by his parents; his beloved wife Angela in 2008; his older brother Leon F. \u201cLenny\u201d Peschong in 1978; and his brother-in-law James Lange.<\/p>\n

Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. \u00a0May he rest in peace. \u00a0Amen. \u00a0May his soul and all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Norbert J. Peschong, age 72, of Sleepy Eye, passed away Saturday, May 2, 2026 at the Divine Providence Community Home in Sleepy Eye. Arrangements are pending. Minnesota Valley Funeral Home \u2013 North Chapel in New Ulm is assisting the family with arrangements. To leave an online condolence for his family, or to sign the guestbook, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2028-06-03 15:15:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[0],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146078,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146076\/revisions\/146078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}