HELEN M. BRAUNSCHWEIG
Funeral services for Helen Braunschweig, 80,
of Aurelia, will be 10:30 A.M. Wednesday, July 20, 2005, at the St. Paul
Lutheran Church in Aurelia, with Pastor Larry Lemke officiating. Burial
will be in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Aurelia. Visitation will be
Tuesday from 2:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M., with the family present from 6:00
to 8:00 at the Redig Funeral Home in Aurelia.
Helen died Saturday, July 16, 2005, at the
Cherokee Regional Medical Center in Cherokee, IA.
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, IA.
Helen attended school at Grand Meadow, graduating in 1942. She attended
Western Union College at LeMars and then taught in public school for
several years. On June 5, 1949 Helen married Gerhardt Braunschweig in
Cherokee. 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 in 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.
Preceding Helen in death were 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, sister Edith and her husband Henry Schipper,
brother-in-law Max Vannorsdel, and two grandchildren, Megan and Nicole
Ballantyne.
Survivors include three daughters, Shirley
and her husband Ron Sundberg of Linn Grove, 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,
IA, Mark and his wife Janene Braunschweig of Cherokee, and John and his
wife Valerie Braunschweig of Cheyenne, WY, sixteen grandchildren and
seventeen great-grandchildren, two sisters, Irene Vannorsdel of Sioux
City, and Marion and her husband Dean Hansen of Paullina, nieces and
nephews, and other relatives and friends.
