George Frederick Day died on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022, in his apartment at Jones-Harrison Senior Living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with his daughter, Georgianna Day Ludcke, and son, John Day, sitting beside him. George Day, the grandson of one of Superior’s earliest families, was born in Superior on July 1, 1926, the child of Kathryn Hole Day and Frederick Ira Day of Superior. His father was the owner and proprietor of the Day & Frees Lumber Company, the Superior branch of which was opened for business by George’s grandfather, his namesake, George L. Day, in 1879.

George was the youngest child...