OBITUARY: Hazel G. (Apel) Brandau, 1899-1996, Mitchell County, Iowa

[ From Mason City Globe Gazette, Mason City, Iowa, March 11, 1996 ]




                        Hazel G. Brandau

ST. ANSGAR--Hazel G. Brandau, 96, of St. Ansgar, formerly of Osage, Iowa
died Saturday, March 9, 1996, at Good Samaritan Center, St. Ansgar, Iowa.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, at Eden Presbyterian
Church, rural Rudd, with the Rev. John Bates officiating.  Burial will
be in Eden Presbyterian Cemetery.

Visitation will begin at 7:30 p.m. today at Champion Funeral Home,
Osage, and one hour prior to service time Tuesday at the church.

Hazel G. Brandau was born May 24, 1899, on a farm in Floyd County,
the daughter of Conrad and Sophie (Buckmann) Apel.  She was educated
in country schools and graduated in 1917 from Cedar Valley Seminary,
Osage.  Hazel married Otto Brandau on May 4, 1921, at her parents
home in Nora Springs.  They farmed near Rudd for 40 years, retiring
and moving to Osage in 1960.  Hazel was a lifelong member of Eden
Presbyterian Church.

Survivors include a daughter, Bernice Sweeney, Longwood, Florida;
a son-in-law, Al Toppin, Clear Lake; seven grandchildren, Dan
Sweeney, Alexandria, Va., Peggy Forbes, Evanston, Ill., Tom Sweeney,
Fern Park, Florida, Brad Toppin, Rudd, Tricia Mullen, Seekonk, Mass.,
Mark Toppin, Plymouth, and Joel Sweeney, Altamonte Springs, Florida;
and 14 great-grandchildren.


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