OBITUARY: Helen Neumann Braegelmann, 1920-2002, Worth county, Iowa Helen Neumann Braegelmann [The Northwood Anchor - www.northwoodanchor.com - posted November 12, 2002] Helen Neumann Braegelmann, 82, of Northwood died on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2002 at the Lutheran Retirement Home, Northwood. Funeral services will be on Friday, November 15, 2002 at 11a.m. at the First Lutheran Church, Northwood with Rev. Alan Stoa and Monsignor Slepicka officiating. Burial will be at the East Olaf Lutheran Church Cemetery, Rock Dell, MN. Visitation will be on Thursday from 6-8 p.m. at Schroeder & Sites Funeral Home, Northwood and on Friday one hour prior to service at the church. Helen was born on March 11, 1920 in Mitchell, IA. She was the daughter of Carl and Emma (Koschmeder) Neumann. Helen attended schools in Mitchell County until moving to Northwood in January 1937 where she graduated as valedictorian. Upon graduating she worked as a waitress for a time, then worked for Farm Bureau, later at Dr. Olson's office and then for the Bell Telephone Company. Helen married Richard (Shorty) Braegelmann on April 28, 1957. Helen's hobbies include reading, writing poetry, fishing, boating and singing. She liked to walk in the woods and being around lakes where she rode on many different types of boats. She did deep sea fishing several times in the Gulf of Mexico. Helen liked to travel, by car, train, bus and airplane. She covered the area from the Pacific Ocean to the Great Lakes and down to the Gulf of Mexico. Helen spent several winters in the southern states and Mexico. She was preceded in death by her parents, sister Caroline Kleinwort and her husband Earl, brother-in-law LeRoy Palmer. Helen is survived by her husband, Richard (Shorty) Braegelmann, niece Donna Vrieze and husband Avery of Spring Valley, MN, Fernie Kleinwort and wife Connie of Fargo, N.D., Quentin Kleinwort and wife Marian of Dodge Center, MN, Dennis Kleinwort and wife Betsy of Byron, MN., Gary Palmer and wife Sara of Florida; sister Gladys Palmer of Florida. Copyright (c) 2002 by Kermit Kittleson (Note: Not necessarily related to the subject of this obituary.) This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. **************************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material,must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ****************************************************************************