OBITUARY: Helen Neumann Braegelmann, 1920-2002, Worth county, Iowa



                       Helen Neumann Braegelmann

[The Northwood Anchor - www.northwoodanchor.com - posted November 12, 2002]
                       
Helen Neumann Braegelmann, 82, of Northwood died on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2002
at the Lutheran Retirement Home, Northwood.

Funeral services will be on Friday, November 15, 2002 at 11a.m. at the
First Lutheran Church, Northwood with Rev. Alan Stoa and Monsignor
Slepicka officiating.  Burial will be at the East Olaf Lutheran Church
Cemetery, Rock Dell, MN.  Visitation will be on Thursday from 6-8 p.m.
at Schroeder & Sites Funeral Home, Northwood and on Friday one hour prior
to service at the church.

Helen was born on March 11, 1920 in Mitchell, IA.  She was the daughter
of Carl and Emma (Koschmeder) Neumann.  Helen attended schools in Mitchell
County until moving to Northwood in January 1937 where she graduated as
valedictorian.  Upon graduating she worked as a waitress for a time, then
worked for Farm Bureau, later at Dr. Olson's office and then for the Bell
Telephone Company.

Helen married Richard (Shorty) Braegelmann on April 28, 1957.  Helen's
hobbies include reading, writing poetry, fishing, boating and singing.
She liked to walk in the woods and being around lakes where she rode on
many different types of boats.  She did deep sea fishing several times
in the Gulf of Mexico.  Helen liked to travel, by car, train, bus and
airplane.  She covered the area from the Pacific Ocean to the Great Lakes
and down to the Gulf of Mexico.  Helen spent several winters in the
southern states and Mexico.

She was preceded in death by her parents, sister Caroline Kleinwort and
her husband Earl, brother-in-law LeRoy Palmer.

Helen is survived by her husband, Richard (Shorty) Braegelmann, niece
Donna Vrieze and husband Avery of Spring Valley, MN, Fernie Kleinwort
and wife Connie of Fargo, N.D., Quentin Kleinwort and wife Marian of
Dodge Center, MN, Dennis Kleinwort and wife Betsy of Byron, MN.,
Gary Palmer and wife Sara of Florida; sister Gladys Palmer of Florida.



Copyright (c) 2002 by Kermit Kittleson
(Note: Not necessarily related to the subject of this obituary.)

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