OBITUARY: Susan Lynn Brasch Kline , Mitchell County, Iowa

[Mitchell County Press-news oline - Posted Feb. 27, 2002 - www.mcpress.com]


                           Susan Lynn Kline
 
A memorial service was held Wednesday, February 27, 2002 at the United
Methodist Church, St. Ansgar, at 10:30 am for Susan Lynn Kline, age 53,
of St. Ansgar, IA. Rev. Jay Amundson officited.  Burial was at the St. Ansgar
Cemetery, St. Ansgar. She died Sunday, Feb. 24, 2002 at the Mitchell County
Regional Health Center, Osage.

In lieu of flowers the family requests donations be sent to the Sue Kline
memorial. Schroeder and Sites Funeral Home, St. Ansgar, is in charge of the
arrangements.

Susan Lynn Kline was born Oct. 6, 1948 the daughter of Claire and Dorothy
Brasch. She lived the majority of her life in St. Ansgar, graduating from
St. Ansgar High School before attending Morningside College in Sioux City,
IA and later graduating from the University of Northern Iowa with a degree
in education.

She married Jerry Kline of St. Ansgar at her parents home on July 6, 1971.
They spent two years in Dubuque before returning to St. Ansgar where her
children, Tara Thorson and Eric Kline were born.

She worked rearing her children and later returned to teaching, most
recently in Lyle, MN. She was an intregal part of the community in
St. Ansgar which will feel her absence deeply. She will be remembered for
her smile, good word and caring heart. By her family, she will be remembered
as the one to aspire to. Her legacy lives in her children, Tara and Eric
and in the memories of her many friends. We will miss her dearly and none
more than her husband, Jerry of 31 years.

Preceeding her in death were her maternal and paternal grandparents; her
brothers-in-law, Jack and Jim Kline; her mother-in-law, Agnes Heimer and
fathers-in-law, Bill Kline and Wilmer "Buddy" Heimer.

She is survived by her husband, Jerry and two children, Tara Thorson and
husband, Cory of Minneapolis, MN, Eric Kline of Chicago, IL; her parents,
Claire and Dorothy Brasch of St. Ansgar; her sisters, Sally Poulos of Mason
City and Barbara Ray and husband Rex of Chicago, IL; her brother, Bob Brasch
and wife Dawn of Chanhassen, MN. On the Kline side, she is survived by her
sisters-in-law, Diane and Roger Zuehl, Racine, WI, Nancy and Donald
Salisbury of Osage, Janet and Bob Bruesewitz of Rochester, MN, Sonja and
Tom Yahnke of Allen, TX, Linda Currens of St. Ansgar,  Carol Kline of
London, MN and Donella Kline of St. Ansgar. She is also survived by
numerous nieces and nephews and extended family.





Copyright (c) 2002 by Kermit Kittleson
(Note: I am not necessarily related to the subject of the obituary.)
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