BRUHN, Elsie O. Fisher 1917-2000

BRUHN, PETERSEN, CHRISTENSEN, FISHER, LOVELL, MAAS, JOHNSON, SCHMIDT, NIELSEN, MINIKUS

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 6/24/2012 at 01:42:15

Elsie O. Fisher Bruhn, 82, of Cedar Falls, died Thursday, March 23, 2000, at Sartori Memorial Hospital. She was born May 14, 1917 in Hudson, Iowa, the daughter of Peter and Sena (Petersen) Christensen.

Elsie married Alvin Fisher on January 18, 1939, at the Little Brown Church near Nashua, Iowa. He preceded her in death in September of 1971. She married Ernest Bruhn on January 24, 1976, in Hollywood, California. He preceded her in death in May of 1986.

Elsie was a graduate of Hudson High School. She worked at Sartori Memorial Hospital and farmed near Hudson and Dike for many years. She was a member of the Danish Sisterhood, WELCA, and Fredsville Lutheran Church.

Elsie is survived by her son, Jerry Fisher and his wife Lavelle of Moville, Iowa; her three daughters, Barbara Lovell and her husband Vernon of Cedar Falls, Dixie Maas and her special friend Harold Wilson of Quasqueton, Iowa, and Patricia Lovell and her husband Craig of Plano, Texas; three step-children, Jim Bruhn and his wife Donna of Cedar Falls, Larry Bruhn of New Hartford and Jane Christensen and her husband Chuck of Dike; nine grandchildren, seven step-grandchildren, twelve great-grandchildren and six step-great-grandchildren; her brother, Elmer Christensen of Cedar Falls, and her sister, Alma Johnson of Reno, Nevada.

She was preceded in death by her two husbands;her parents; her brother, Earl Christensen; three sisters, Dagny Schmidt, Thora Nielsen Christensen and Agnes Fisher Minikus; her son-in-law, Herman Maas, and her step-daughter-in-law, Carol Bruhn.

Services: 11:00 a.m., Monday, March 27, 2000, at Fredsville Lutheran Church in rural Cedar Falls, with burial at Elmwood Cemetery in Dike. Memorials may be directed to the American Cancer Society, the American Diabetes Association and Fredsville Lutheran Church.

[Source: Dahl - Van Hove - Schoof Funeral Home]