BRUSH, Florence Alliene "Flossie" (FILLENWARTH)

FILLENWARTH, BRUSH, FISCHER, YOUNG, OSMUNDSON, LEHMAN, ALLEN, LANDMAN

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 11/29/2018 at 05:27:48

Obituary ~ Florence "Flossie" Alliene (Fillenwarth) Brush
April 12, 1922 ~ October 10, 2001

The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
Tuesday, October 14, 2001

CLEAR LAKE - Florence "Flossie" Alliene Brush, 79, of Clear Lake died Wednesday (Oct. 10, 2001) at the Mercy Medical Center-North Iowa in Mason City.

There will be a memory exchange at 4 p.m. on Friday at the Brush residence at 507 S. Shore Drive in Clear Lake. According to her wishes her body was cremated.

The family of Florence "Flossie" Brush has requested that memorial contributions be made to Camp Tanglefoot Inc. in Clear Lake in her memory.

Florence "Flossie" Alliene Brush was born on April 12, 1922, in Melvin, Iowa, the daughter of Floyd H. and Margaretha (Fischer) Fillenwarth. She attended and received her education in the Charles City school system, graduating from Charles City High School. Florence also attended Christian College in Columbia, Mo., and graduated from the University of Iowa School of Nursing.

She was united in marriage to Frederick Brush on Aug. 30, 1946, at the Little Brown Church in Nashua. He preceded her in death on Jan. 31, 1984. After their marriage the family moved to Mason City in 1949. Flossie was a very devoted wife, mother and grandmother.

Flossie was actively involved in the North Iowa Girl Scouts in numerous capacities, and was very active for Project Hope in the 1970s, traveling extensively throughout the world. She enjoyed poetry, reading and miniature doll house collections, but her great love and enjoyment was her family and grandchildren. She was a member of the Pi Beta Phi Sorority at the University of Iowa, participated as a host family to four foreign exchange students, and was a member of the Clear Lake Arts Council and was a supporter of the arts.

Left to cherish her memory are her children, Frederick "Rick" C. Brush Jr. of Clear Lake, Mary Young and her husband, Lawrence, of Truckee, Calif., James "Jim" Brush and his wife, Cathy, of Palisade, Colo., and Margaret Osmundson and her husband, Brad, of Eden Prairie, Minn.; six grandchildren, Brett and Quincy Young, Heather Lehman, Logan Allen, Christian and Jon Osmundson; a great-grandson, Grant Landman; a brother, Albert Fillenwarth, of Clearwater, Fla.; as well as other relatives and friends.

Flossie will be fondly remembered and greatly missed.

Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, (641) 357-2193.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, November of 2018