Descended from a long line of sausage makers, Debra Usinger was a history buff who relished upholding her family's historical roots to the eponymous business on Old World 3rd St.
Debra Usinger made sure the retail store next to Usinger's Sausage Co. maintained its turn-of-the-last-century feel with marble counters and murals and oversaw the popular catalog of the family business.
Debra Usinger, of Cedarburg, died Sunday from cancer. She was 58.
"She really loved to adhere to the historical aspect of what we did," said her brother Fritz Usinger, the company's president.
"Obviously, growing up with the business and our whole history, it was really important for her to honor our predecessors. That meant maintaining the heritage formulas and telling the story," Fritz Usinger said.
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