BRAEGELMANN, Helen N. (Neumann) 1920-2002

BRAEGELMANN, NEUMANN, KOSCHMEDER

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 7/31/2011 at 13:26:48

HELEN N. BRAEGELMANN

NORTHWOOD - Helen Neumann Braegelmann, 82, of Northwood, died on Sunday (Nov. 10, 2002) at the Lutheran Retirement Home in Northwood.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at the First Lutheran Church in Northwood, with the Rev. Alan Stoa and Monsignor Joseph Slepicka officiating. Burial will be at the East Olaf Lutheran Church Cemetery in Rock Dell, Minn.

Visitation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Schroeder & Sites Funeral Home in Northwood, and one hour prior to services on Friday at the church.

Helen was born on March 11, 1920, in Mitchell, the daughter of Carl and Emma (Koschmeder) Neumann. Helen attended schools in Mitchell County until moving to Northwood in January of 1937 where she graduated as valedictorian.

Upon graduating she worked as a waitress for a time, then worked for Farm Bureau. Later she worked at Dr. Olson's office and then for the Bell Telephone Company.

Helen married Richard "Shorty" Braegelmann on April 28, 1957.

Helen's hobbies included reading, writing poetry, fishing, boating and singing. She liked to walk in the woods and being around lakes where she rode on many different types of boats. She went deep sea fishing several times in the Gulf of Mexico.

Helen liked to travel by car, train, bus and airplane. She traveled from the Pacific Ocean to the Great Lakes and down to the Gulf of Mexico. Helen spent several winters in the southern states and Mexico.

She was preceded in death by her parents; sister, Caroline Kleinwort and her husband, Earl; and brother-in-law, LeRoy Palmer.

She is survived by her husband, Richard "Shorty" Braegelmann, of Northwood; a niece, Donna Vrieze and her husband, Avery, of Spring Valley, Minn.; nephews, Bernie Kleinwort and his wife, Connie, of Fargo, N.D., Quentin Kleinwort and his wife, Marian, of Dodge Center, Minn., Dennis Kleinwort and his wife, Betsy, of Byron, Minn., Gary Palmer and his wife, Sara, of Florida; a sister, Gladys Palmer, of Florida.

Memorials may be directed to either the First Lutheran Church or the Lutheran Retirement Home in Northwood.

Schroeder & Sites Funeral Home, (641) 324-1121.

[ Globe Gazette, Nov. 13, 2002 ]