BRAM, Fred Henry

BRAM, RASMUSSEN, HATFIELD, HANSON, MOOREHEAD, WHITE, OLSEN, NORDEN, ADAMS, RIPLEY, WITHERS, DUNLAP

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 9/15/2016 at 06:30:20

Obituary ~ Fred Henry Bram
April 30, 1919 ~ March 01, 1997

The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
March 03, 1997

CLEAR LAKE, IA -- Fred Henry Bram, 77, of 1310 Sixth Ave. S., died Saturday (March 1, 1997) at the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit, Mason City.

Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the United Methodist Church, Ventura, with the Rev. David Gobeli officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will begin at 3 p.m. Tuesday at the Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 101 N. Fourth St., Clear Lake.

The family suggests memorials be given to Hospice of North Iowa.

Fred Henry Bram was born April 30, 1919, in Renwick, the son of Henry and Jennie (Rasmussen) Bram. He grew up in the Renwick area and attended and graduated from Vernon Schools.

He was enlisted in the United States Army from 1942 to 1946. He served in India and Okinawa. He traveled all around the world.

He was united in marriage to Opal Hatfield on March 20, 1946, in Kansas City, Kan. They farmed north of Ventura for 26 years, retiring in 1981. They moved to Clear Lake in 1996. He was a member of the United Methodist Church, Ventura, as well as the American Legion.

Fred loved traveling in his motor home, spending winters in Arizona. He enjoyed visiting and meeting new people. He loved hiking, reading and his farm. He especially loved his children and grandchildren.

Survivors include his wife, Opal Bram of Clear Lake; two daughters, Brenda Hanson and her husband, Joel, of Garner and Cheryl Moorehead and her husband, Rick, of Clear Lake; grandchildren, Stephanie Hanson of Richfield, Minn., Kevin Hanson of Ventura and Jeff Hanson of Garner, and Melissa Moorehead and Matthew Moorehead, both of Clear Lake; his two brothers and five sisters, Matilda White of Renwick, Anita Olsen of Cedar Rapids, Jennie Norden and her husband, Pete, of Englewood, Colo., Eldine Adams of Tipton, Betty Ripley and her husband, David, of Perry, Jake Bram and his wife, Margaret, of Oskaloosa, and Lewis Bram and his wife, Pat, of Mason City; and several nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his mother and father; an infant son, Richard; an infant daughter, Kathy; and two sisters, Doris Withers and Bertha Dunlap.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, September of 2016