HAEFNER, Clare (Brandt) --- 1900-1985

BRANDT, HAEFNER, PALO, MEYER

Posted By: IA GenWeb Volunteer
Date: 3/18/2011 at 20:24:05

Clare Haefner

Graveside memorial services for Clare Brandt Haefner, 84, of Grand Junction, CO are to be conducted at Bloomfield Cemetery, Castalia, at 11 a.m., Saturday, July 6. They are to be conducted by Rev. Francis Nelson of First Lutheran Church, Hibbing, MN. Murdcoch Funeral Home, Marion, is in charge of arrangements.

She died Jan. 14 at Grand Junction. Her body was cremated and services held in Grand Junction on Jan. 17.

She was born near Postville in Clayton County on Jan. 31, 1900. She graduated from Postville High School in 1918 and attended Des Moines College, the University of Colorado and Coe College. She taught school in Castalia and Guttenberg. May 5, 1923 she married Earl Wesley Haefner in Waterloo, who died in 1980.

Survivors include Earl Haefner, Jr. and a daughter, Mrs. David (Margaret) Palo, both of Grand Junction; 4 grandchildren, a brother, Ewald Brandt of Postville, and a sister, Delia Meyer of McGregor.

Postville, Iowa newspaper of the time clipping, hand dated 1985, from Dorothy Schave's obituary collection.