Patricia Ann (Guy) BRAM

BRAM, GUY, CURRAN, KRALLING, CROSSLEY, HAUGLAND

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 4/23/2009 at 10:02:18

November 17, 2005
Mason City Globe Gazette, Iowa

MASON CITY — Patricia Ann Bram, 75, of Humboldt, formerly of Mason City, passed away Monday (Nov. 14, 2005) at the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit in Mason City. Funeral services will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Oak Hill Baptist Church in Humboldt with the Rev. Richard Lauger officiating. Interment will be at 1:30 p.m. in Vernon Township Cemetery in Renwick. Visitation will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Wilson Funeral Home, 403 E. McGregor St. in Algona.

Patricia Ann Guy, daughter of Roy and Loretta (Curran) Guy, was born Aug. 23, 1930, in Algona. She grew up as one of nine children in the LuVerne/Renwick area. She attended country school, LuVerne Community School, and graduated from Vernon Consolidated School. She then worked at Ford Hopkins Drug Store in Fort Dodge. On Oct. 17, 1948, Pat and Lewis Bram were united in marriage. They made their home on the Bram farm from 1959-60, when they purchased their own place in the Rockwell/Mason City area. They raised six children there. Upon retirement, Pat and Lewis lived in Mason City until Lewis became ill in 1997. They then moved to Humboldt to have help with the care of Lewis. After Lewis’ death in 1997, Pat resided in Humboldt and her cabin in northern Minnesota. Pat is remembered for being a wonderful wife, mom, grandmother and sister who always was thinking of some way to be of help to others, from babysitting to refinishing furniture. Her faithful witness and relationship to the Lord and His saving work on the Cross were evident in every aspect of her life. She enjoyed college football and basketball and loved to visit with family and friends, often playing table games with visitors in the evenings. Each summer, she loved to be in northern Minnesota, a passion that went back to her youth when her grandparents owned a resort on Twin Lake, Waubun. Pat and Lewis built a log cabin on this lake, which they shared with anyone who could get away and visit them. In later years, Pat continued to be active in her church and enjoyed china painting as well as exotic egg decorating. Pat loved baking, decorating wedding cakes and quilting.

Pat was an active participant in the Hi-Neighbor Club as a young wife and a member of the Bath Township Homemakers Club while living in the Mason City area. While living in Humboldt, Pat became active in the Red Hat Society and the Humboldt China Painters Club. She shared many good times with friends and neighbors during these activities. Pat also belonged to the Rockwell Baptist Women’s Fellowship. She taught Sunday school, helped with youth groups and faithfully supported her children’s and grandchildren’s school activities.

Pat is survived by one daughter, Diane Kralling of Mason City; five sons and their wives, Steve and Elaine Bram of Chiang Mai, Thailand, Douglas and Janna Bram of Marble Rock, Dan and Laurel Bram of Mason City, Todd and Kelly Bram of Lewiston, Minn., and Bradley and Jeannette Bram of Rockwell; 20 grandchildren; two stepgrandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; one great-stepgrandchild; three brothers, Jack Guy and his wife, Betty, of LuVerne, Joe Guy of Swea City and Jim Guy, of Manoman, Minn.; two sisters and their husbands, Jerry and Joe Crossley of Hardy and Margaret and Myron Haugland of Humboldt. She was preceded in death by her husband, parents, a brother, John; and three sisters, Emily Jane, Maxine, and Charlotte. Wilson’s of Algona.