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An administrative secretary and bookkeeper was charged with six felony counts Tuesday after she allegedly stole more than $850,000 over a 10-year period from a New Glarus rehabilitation and nursing home where she was employed.

Joyce Ziehli, 55, of Belleville, was charged with six counts of theft in a business setting after an exhaustive review by a Madison accounting firm claimed that she made hundreds of fraudulent financial transactions to steal from the New Glarus Home, a criminal complaint states.

Ziehli, who worked for the New Glarus Home for 31 years before she was fired last January, is scheduled to make her initial court appearance Jan. 13 at the Green County Justice Center in Monroe, New Glarus police said.

The charges sent shock waves through the Belleville and New Glarus communities where Ziehli and her husband, Andy Ziehli, are well-known. Joyce Ziehli was a former Belleville School Board member and is on the board at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Belleville, according to her Facebook page, which had been taken down Tuesday evening.

“The whole thing surprises me,” said Belleville village trustee and former Belleville School Board president Roger Hillebrand.