OBITUARY: Leone Wilhelmine Henriette Braun Marcks, Mitchell County, Iowa

[St. Ansgar Enterprise, St. Ansgar, Iowa 16 MAY 1991]


     Leone Wilhelmine Henriette Braun Marcks  [1907-1991]

Surnames: Marcks, Braun

Funeral Services for Leone Marcks, 84, who died May 6 [1991] were held
Thursday, May 9 at Schroeder and Sites Funeral Home with the Rev. N.E. Betke
officiating.

Leone Wilhelmine Henriette Braun Marcks, daughter of William and Minnie
Schultz Braun, was born February 15, 1907 at Bolan in Worth County.

She was baptized into the Christian faith on March 17, 1907 at Immanuel
Lutheran Church of Grafton by the Rev. C. Landdeck with Wilhelmine Braun,
Henrietta Hartwig and Frank Braun as her sponsors.

She confirmed her baptismal vows March 28, 1920 at Grafton, having been
instructed by Pastor Landdeck.

She grew up in the Bolan area and as a young lady worked at the Klindt
Hotel in St. Ansgar. November 25, 1925 she married W.E. Marcks and later
divorced. This union was blessed with two daughters. She lived in
St. Ansgar all her life and loved music and encouraged it in her children.
She enjoyed her family, with crocheting and fishing as her hobbies.

Leone is survived by two daughters, Mrs. James (Geneva) Hanna of Osage and
Mrs. Ken (Doris) Schmarzo of Charles City; five grandchildren: Michael Hanna
of Storm Lake; Suzette Ruechel Blakestad of Shelby; Allen Ruechel of Clear
Water, Fla.; Julie Hanna Foth of Cedar Falls; and Bill Schmarzo of
Cincinnati, Ohio; 12 great-grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Lyle (Pearl)
Christy of Austin, Minn. and Mrs. Bill (Wilma) Siskow of Dougherty.

She was preceded in death by her parents, four brothers and one sister.

Burial was in the St. Ansgar Cemetery.


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