He is on the editorial board of Circulation, Surgery, Vessel Plus, the Canadian Journal of Cardiology, and the Journal of Cardiac Surgery. He serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Circulation Heart Failure, and the Circulation Journal. Dr Sellke has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health for 28 years. His clinical research interests include optimizing outcomes after cardiac surgery, the reduction of bleeding and transfusion, and neurocognitive dysfunction and atrial fibrillation after surgery. His research interests include the regulation of the microcirculation in health and disease, ischemic injury and inflammation during cardiac surgery, collateral vascular formation and the use of growth factors and cell therapy to increase blood flow to ischemic tissue. Dr Sellke was the Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Johnson and Johnson Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School prior to moving to Brown. He is a noted clinical cardiothoracic surgeon, researcher, and author. Dr Sellke is a native of Indiana and graduated from Wabash College and Indiana University School of Medicine. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the McFarland Historical Society.Dr Sellke is the Karl Karlson and Gloria Karlson Professor and Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Brown Medical School and the Lifespan Hospitals and Director of the Lifespan Cardiovascular Institute. Visitation will be held from 5:00 PM until 7:00 PM on Tuesday, Maat Olson-Holzhuter-Cress Funeral Home in McFarland and from 1:00 PM until the time of services at church on Wednesday. Burial will follow in the Upper McFarland Cemetery, where Ruby will rest next to her husband and parents.

on Wednesday, Maat the McFarland Lutheran Church, 5529 Marsh Road, with Reverend Jack Finney officiating and Retired Pastor Terry Peterson as organist. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Ruby was preceded in death by her parents and her husband.

Her greatest joy and legacy is her family: Susan Marie (Steve) Saunders of Edgerton Annette Lucile (Gary) Mahnke of Green Valley, Arizona Annette's daughter, Lisa Michelle (Ned) Nelson and their son, Cash Annette's son, Troy Arnold (Miki) and their son, Ryker, all of Lawrence, Kansas Peter David, whose wife, Judy, has been a fourth daughter to Ruby, of Madison Peter's son, Jeffrey Arnold (Emily) of Verona and Carol Elizabeth Larson (Jerry Huffman) of Brooklyn. She also loved travel abroad and made trips to England, Austria, Germany, the Holy Land and Denmark, many with her daughter Carol. In addition, each year Ruby looked forward to a family fishing vacation in Northern Wisconsin, a custom she enjoyed with her son's family after her husband's death. Their home was filled with plants, inside and out, all year round. Ruby loved flowers and gardening, an activity she shared with her husband. She was honored by the Wisconsin Historical Society for her dedication to State and local historic preservation. Over time, Ruby held every officers position at the McFarland Historical Society, some several times. Ruby Larson was an active member of the McFarland Lutheran Church: teaching Sunday School and Bible studies, serving as one of the first women on the board of directors, reading scripture during services, attending Bible courses at Bethel Lutheran and various Lutheran colleges, participating in the activities of the Sarah Circle, and for decades, counting and banking the Sunday offering. After the births of their children, she worked in offices created in the Larson residence across the street from 'The Badger', then located on the present site of Arnold Larson Park. Ruby continued as head bookkeeper until Arnold's retirement in 1965. The two of them worked together to rebuild the company after a catastrophic fire in 1937. Later, Ruby would joke that she married the boss. Ruby's clerical skills served her well when she was hired by the newly formed Badger Petroleum Company, managed by Arnold O. She also studied Latin and became a very accurate speller. Ruby attended McFarland Grade School before transferring to Madison East High School, where she followed the secretarial program with great success. That doctors house later became Ruby's home for 68 years. The doctor on call arrived by horse and buggy. She was born Ruby Williamson on Novemin a farmhouse outside of McFarland, of parents, Dagmar Marie and Hans Peter Williamson, both from Denmark. McFarland- Ruby Victoria Larson, age 96, died on Saturday, Maat Oak Park Place, where she resided for the past year.

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