Funeral services were held Monday, December 7 for Alfred Braasch, well-known Pierce area farmer, who died in a Norfolk hospital after suffering a series of strokes. The Rev. Gerald Free conducted the services at Immanuel Lutheran church in Hadar.
Miss Kathleen Krause, organist, accompanied the congregation as they sang “The Lord’s My Shepherd, I’ll Not Want”, “What god Ordains Is Always Good”, and “To Thee, O Lord, Our Hears We Raise”.
Interment was in the Hadar Cemetery with John Meinke Jr., Harry Retzlaff, Gerald Rossmeier, Edwin Seegebarth, Wm. Staver and Max Viergutz as pallbearers.
Mr. Braasch suffered a stroke October 27 and was taken to a hospital at that time. He underwent surgery during this confinement and appeared to be recovered and returned home. November 20 he re-entered the hospital and then suffered another stroke. Death came Thursday, December3.
Alfred Herman Braasch, son of Mr. and Mrs. August Braasch, was born May 14, 1898 at the home of his parents 5 ½ miles south of Pierce. May 19, 1898 he was baptized at Immanuel Lutheran by Pastor Kluge and in March of 1912 was confirmed in the Lutheran faith by Pastor Theo. Brauer. He was a life-long member of Immanuel at Hadar.
April 17, 1921 he was united in marriage to Marie Kortje by Pastor Witt in St. Paul’s Lutheran Church at Norfolk and this union was blessed with one son.
After their marriage they lived on a farm five miles south of Pierce and in 1928 they moved to their present farm.
Surviving to mourn his passing are his wife, Marie; a son, Norman, Cape Girardeau, Mo.; one granddaughter; a brother, Ruben, Pierce; Three sisters, Mrs. Albert (Ida) Dinkel and Mrs. Carl (Linda) Kortje, Pierce, and Miss Gertrude Braasch, Hadar.
Mr. Braasch was preceded in death by his parents; a sister, Mrs. Marie Ahlman; a twin brother, Elmer, and Brothers Julius and Oscar.