OBITUARY: Norma Martha (Brandt) Wright, 1919-2005, Mitchell County, Iowa 

Web-posted April 19, 2005  by www.mcpress.com (and subsequently edited)
 



                              Norma Wright

Funeral services for Norma Martha Wright, age 85, of Osage were held on
Wednesday, April 20, 2005, at the Champion-Bucheit Funeral Home in
Osage, Iowa, with the Rev. Byron Northwick officiating.

Burial was in the Osage city Cemetery.  Norma died Sunday, April 17, 2005,
at the Faith Lutheran Home in Osage.

Norma was born August 22, 1919, to Albert and Bertha (Bruggeman) Brandt on
a farm north of St. Ansgar, Iowa, where she grew up. She was baptized and
confirmed at St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Toeterville, Iowa. She attended
school at Clyde and St. Ansgar, Iowa. On April 30, 1940, she was united
in marriage to Marion G. Wright. They spent three and a half years in
California, after which they moved to a farm west of Stacyville. In 1960,
they moved to Osage, where Norma lived at the present time.

Norma was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Marion Wright in
1976; four sisters, Frances Brandt, in her youth, Esther Gunsallus, Ardena
Holm, and Adeline Dammen; and two brothers, Raymond and Roy Brandt

She is survived by four nieces: Avis Wood of Rockford, Marlys (Bob) Starry
of McIntire, Carole (Darwin) Benson of Cedar Rapids and Joyce (Bill) Squier
of St. Ansgar; nine nephews: Darrell (Georgia) Holm of Mason City, Gene
Holm of Mason City and friend LaVonne Wheeler, Merle (Barbara) Holm of
Mason City, Merlyn (Dorothy) Gunsallus of McIntire, Burnett (Bonnie) Brandt
of Cedar Falls, Dean (Delight) Brandt of Denver, Ron Brandt of Missouri,
Larry (Andrea) Dammen of Osage and Kevin Dammen of Osage.

The Champion-Bucheit Funeral Home, Osage, is in charge of the arrangements.




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