BRENNAN, Robert R. 1926-2012

BRENNAN, MYERS, LENTZ, RIGEL, DUGGAN, BOGGE

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 12/29/2012 at 23:11:02

[Waterloo Courier, Sunday, December 16, 2012]

WATERLOO — Robert R. Brennan, 86, of Waterloo, died Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012, at Ravenwood Nursing & Rehab Center.

He was born Oct. 24, 1926, in Elma, son of Eugene F. and Henrietta Myers Brennan. He married Marie Lentz on April 23, 1947, in Elma. She died Dec. 30, 1993.

Mr. Brennan’s family farmed throughout northeast Iowa. He was employed with John Deere and later with the Rath Packing Co., retiring in 1979. He spent some of his retirement years in Florida and then returned to Iowa in 1999.

Survived by three daughters, Nancy (Dan) Rigel of Waterloo, Mary Ann (Kevin) Duggan of Cedar Rapids and Kate Brennan (John) Hall of Cedar Falls; 13 grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren and two expecting; a sister, Rosemary Bogge of Independence; a brother-in-law, Lavern Lentz or Elma; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Preceded in death by a son, Russell; two infant daughters, Marie and Teresa; four brothers, William, Eugene, Joseph and Bernard; and six sisters: Elizabeth, Katherine, Isabelle, Marie, Ruth and Jeanette.

Services: 10:30 a.m. Monday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, with burial at 2 p.m. in Calvary Cemetery, Elma. Visitation from 2 to 5 p.m. today at Hagarty-Waychoff-Grarup Funeral Service on West Ridgeway, with a 3 p.m. Knights of Columbus rosary by Cedar Falls Council 4516 and a 5 p.m. vigil. Visitation will continue an hour before services Monday at the church.

Memorials may be directed to the family.

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