LAWRENCE GEORGE BRAY 1900-1988

DUNDEE, BRAY, HECKMAN, MARTING, JOHNSON, MEYER, HOLM, KRAMBEER, PETERSON, BERTLESON

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Date: 7/1/2005 at 12:54:56

LAWRENCE GEORGE BRAY 1900-1988

Funeral services for Lawrence Bray were held Monday, April 25, 1988, at 2 p.m. at the Forest Mills United Methodist Church, rural Postville. Verdon Swenson officiated. Schutte Funeral Service was in charge of arrangements. Burial was in the Smith Cemetery, rural Postville.

Lawrence George Bray, son of John Lewis and Ruth Angeline (Dundee) Bray, was born August 1, 1900, at the Old Stone House, Post Township, Allamakee County, Iowa. He died Saturday, April 23, 1988 at the Good Samaritan Center in Waukon, Iowa.

He attended the Lybrand Country School north of Postville.

He was married to Lillian Ida Dundee. They had one son, Harlan. After the death of his wife, he married Bessie Heckman, and after her death, he married Elda Marting.

Lawrence farmed in the Postville area all of his life. He had also been employed by the railroad, the Postville Brick Yard and the Postville Telephone Company.

Lawrence is preceded in death by his parents, his wives, Lillian and Bessie, 2 brothers, Lloyd and Raymond and 5 sisters, Julana, Ruby, Mary, Beulah, and Mabel, and a stepson, Wallace Marting.

Surviving are his wife, Elda, one son, Harlan and his wife, Jeanice, of Clinton, IA, 5 stepdaughters, Margie Johnson, Caledonia, MN, Vitabeth Heckmann, Postville, Eileen Meyer, Antioch, CA, Shirley Holm, Justin, CA and Mary Lou Krambeer, Phoeniz, AZ, 2 stepson, Arlo Heckman, Omaha and Lanny Marting, Postville, 9 grandchildren, several great grandchildren and 2 sisters, Dorothy and her husband, Ervin Peterson, Decorah and Myrtle Bertleson, Postville.

Casket bearers were Burton Schlein, John R. McNally, Robert Burns, Kenneth Ewing, Don Johnson and Charles Blox--- [here the paper has crumbled and is gone]

Postville Herald - contributed by Mary Durr