BRAUNSCHWEIG, Helen

BRAUNSCHWEIG, ANDERSON, BORGESON, SUNDBERG, BALLANTYNE, LUNDSGAARD, VANNORSDEL, HANSEN, OBERG, SCHIPPER

Posted By: Lynette Edsall (email)
Date: 9/13/2006 at 14:04:56

Helen Braunschweig

AURELIA, Iowa -- Helen Braunschweig, 80 of Aurelia died Saturday, July 16, 2005 at the Cherokee Regional Medical Center.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Aurelia with the Rev. Larry Lemke officiating. Burial will be in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Aurelia. Visitation will be from 2 to 8 p.m. Tuesday with the family present from 6 to 8 p.m at the Redig Funeral Home, Aurelia.

Helen Mae Borgeson was born March 12, 1925, near Washta, Iowa, the daughter of Emil and Ida (Anderson) Borgeson. She was baptized and confirmed in the Carmel Lutheran Church, Marcus, Iowa. Helen attended school at Grand Meadow, graduating in 1942. She attended Western Union College, Le Mars, Iowa, and then taught in public school for several years. On June 5, 1949, she married Gerhardt (Gary) Braunschweig in Cherokee, Iowa. They raised a family of seven children. Helen then taught at Head Start and worked in a home for handicapped children. She was a cook at Sunset Knoll Retirement Home, Aurelia for eight years and was a caregiver for people in their homes.

Helen loved gardening, especially raising flowers. She enjoyed poetry, crafts and playing cards. She was a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church and Ladies Aid, Sunset Knoll Auxiliary and various card clubs.

Survivors include three daughters Shirley and her husband Ron Sundberg of Linn Grove, Iowa, Carol and her husband Craig Ballantyne of Aurelia and Joyce and her husband Tim Lundsgaard of Cherokee; three sons Steven and his wife Judy Braunschweig of Sidney, Iowa, Mark and his wife Janene Braunschweig of Cherokee and John and his wife Valerie Braunschweig of Cheyenne, Wyo.; 16 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; two sisters, Irene Vannorsdel of Sioux City and Marion and her husband Dean Hansen of Paullina, nieces, nephews and other relatives and friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Gerhardt on July 29, 1997; their son Wesley; her oldest sister Mildred and her husband Ernest Oberg; her brother Walter and his wife Charlotte Borgeson; a sister Edith and her husband Henry Schipper; a brother-in-law Max Vannorsdel and two grandchildren Megan and Nicole Ballantyne.