Ricardo (Ric) Correa

Ricardo (Ric) Correa worked as a waiter most of his adult life, but was a gifted artist, avid reader, and a very creative home interior designer. He was also a business owner (part owner of Grand Avenue Pub in 1980s), and a loving partner for fifteen years (Peter J. Konrath-partner). Ric grew up in the Milwaukee/Menominee Falls area of Wisconsin. At the age of seventeen, a few weeks before graduating from high school, Ric left home because his family found out that he was gay.

Despite this early set-back in his life, he went on to reconcile with his family and was very close to them upon his death in 2004.