Henrietta Isabelle (Day) BRUHL MARTIN

BRUHL, MARTIN, DAY, ANDERSON, KRAMER, COLWELL, KADUCE, GILLES, WALKER, FOLLETT, COURTS, DICKMAN, CLARK

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 11/8/2012 at 20:32:54

March 22, 1927 --- November 4, 2012

Clarksville - Henrietta Isabelle Bruhl Martin, age 85, of Clarksville, Iowa, was born March 22, 1927, to Otis G. and Gertrude O. (Anderson) Day, in Clarion, Iowa, the youngest of four children. She graduated from Clarion High School in 1945. She was united in marriage on March 16, 1947, to Merle B. Bruhl at the Methodist Church in Clarion. They made their home on a farm near Eagle Grove. In 1954 they moved to a farm west of Klemme where they raised their five daughters. In 1974, Merle and Isabelle moved to a farm near Elma, where they lived until Merle's death in 1977, and Isabelle moved to Osage. Izzy was a farmer's wife and the city girl learned to drive a tractor. She was also the mother of five daughters, sewing many of their dresses. As a member of the Klemme Methodist Church, she taught Sunday School for several years. In 1968 she went to work at the Garner Leader, and later worked for the Iowa Department of Human Services in Garner. When they moved to Elma, she was transferred to the Osage office, where she worked until she retired in 1983.

Isabelle was reunited with a high school beau, Russell Martin, and they were married on July 2, 1983. They made their home in Clarksville. They enjoyed several winters in Arizona. She enjoyed traveling with Russ to area horseshoe tournaments where she would assist in the scoring and at times provide lunch for the pitchers.

Isabelle died late Sunday night, on Nov. 4, 2012, at the Waverly Health Center in Waverly, Iowa. She was preceded in death by her parents; her first husband, Merle Bruhl; two sisters, Mildred Kramer and Dorothy Colwell; one brother, James Day. Isabelle is survived by her husband Russell Martin; five daughters, Susan (Terry) Kaduce of Klemme, Iowa, Patricia (Patrick) Gilles of Lincoln, Neb., Mary (Verlyn) Kaduce of Garner, Iowa, Connie (Robert) Walker of Mason City, Iowa, and Jane Bruhl Follett of Clear Lake, Iowa; eight grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; Russell's children, Tom (Darla) Martin of Stanhope, Iowa, Sue (Mike) Courts of Cedar Falls, Iowa, Cindee Dickman of Thornton, Iowa, Sallee Martin of Monticello, Iowa, Sandee "Sam" (Tom) Clark of Clarksville, Iowa, and Tonee (Janelle) Martin of Winter, Wisc.; fourteen grandchildren and fifteen great-grandchildren.

Mass of Christian Burial will be 10 a.m., Thursday, Nov. 8, at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Greene. Burial will be held in Ell Township Cemetery, Klemme, at 1:30 p.m. Thursday. Visitation will be from 5:30 to 8 p.m., today, Wednesday, Nov. 7, at Redman-Schwartz Funeral Home in Clarksville, where there will be a 5:30 p.m. Scriptural Wake Service. Visitation will continue for one hour prior to services at the church on Thursday.

Mason City Globe Gazette - Iowa
November 7, 2012