OBITUARY: Alice A. (Brandau) Ohden, 1924-2004, Mitchell County, Iowa

[Adapted from Mitchell County Press-News online; 9/15/2004]



                            Alice A. Ohden

Funeral services for Alice A. Ohden, age 79, of rural Floyd, were held
on Friday, September 10, 2004, at the Eden Presbyterian Church, rural
Rudd, Iowa, with Rev. John Bates officiating.

Interment was in the Eden Presbyterian Cemetery, in West Cedar Township,
Mitchell County, Iowa.

Alice died Monday, Sept. 6, 2004, at the Floyd County Memorial Hospital
in Charles City, Iowa.

Alice was born December 3, 1924, near Rudd, Iowa, the daughter of
Edward and Hulda (Ahrens) Brandau. She attended country schools near
Rudd, and graduated from Rudd High School in 1941. Alice attended
Hamilton Business College, after which she worked for several years
in the office of Kresge's in Mason City as a bookkeeper. She then
helped on the family farm.

Alice was united in marriage to John Ohden on June 21, 1946, at the
Eden Presbyterian Church, with the ceremony being officiated by Rev.
Henry Sinning. They made their home near McIntire (Mitchell County,
Iowa), and then moved to a farm east of Rudd. In 1950, they moved to
their current farm, near Floyd, in Floyd County, Iowa.

She was a lifelong member of Eden Presbyterian Church, where she served
as an Elder. Alice was a past secretary for Eden Presbyterian Cemetery.

Alice was preceded in death by her parents; an infant brother Alton
Brandau; one brother Reuben Brandau; one grandson J. Ohden and one
brother-in-law Norval Sinning.

She is survived by her husband John Ohden of Floyd; her children:
Donald (Cheryl "Buffie") Ohden of Nora Springs, Iowa, and their children
Brandy (Aaron) Wilson and Paul Ohden; Edward (Jane) Ohden of Grafton,
Iowa, and their children Renee (Darren) Petersen and their children
Nicole, Ryan and Jenna Krista Ohden and Amy Ohden; Ann (Arnold) Knoll
of New Hampton, Iowa, and their children Sarah (Chad) Buchholz and
Benjamin Knoll; James (Barb) Ohden of Floyd and their children Jamie
(Chad) Schriever and Juli Ohden; Robert Ohden of Floyd Keith Ohden of
Forest City, Iowa.  Her sisters: Lucille (Neil) Bisbee of Stacyville,
Eunice (Homer) Stockdale of Aplington and Elinor Sinning of Rudd,
sister-in-law Madge Brandau of Rudd and numerous nieces and nephews.

Arrangements made by Champion-Bucheit Funeral Home in Osage.
 

   Copyright 2004, K.L. Kittleson



Note: Eden Presbyterian Cemetery is in Mitchell county, right on the
Mitchell-Floyd county line.