ST. TAMMANY PARISH, LA. 

Obituary for: BRAUN, HILDEGARD SYLVIA 

Submitted by: Louis Lavedan. 

Source: E.J. Fielding Funeral Home, Covington, La.

Died Wednesday, August 31, 2011

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BRAUN, HILDEGARD SYLVIA 
(April 9, 1927 - August 31, 2011)

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Hildegard Sylvia Klein Braun, age 84, passed away on Tuesday, August 31, 2011 
in Metairie, Louisiana. 

She was born on April 9, 1927 in Munich, Germany where she lived until 1947 
when she married Tsgt. Edward J. Braun, Jr., and entered the United States as 
his war bride. 
They lived in New Orleans, Louisiana later that year. 

Hilda and Edward had four children, a special needs daughter, Sylvia Rita, and 
three sons, Edward Joseph, III (Helene), Daniel Charles and Gary Kenneth 
(Karen). Her husband passed away in 1960. She never remarried and cared for her 
daughter up until her passing. Hilda lived for her children first and felt hard 
work, self sacrifice and honesty were the greatest values she could pass down.

She embraced the United States and its culture as her own and in 1974 became a 
naturalized United States citizen. In her later years, she was cared for by her 
son, Gary and his loving wife Karen. 
In addition to her children, she is survived by seven grandchildren, Jennifer 
Rome (Larry), Gregory, Wendy, Danny, Jr., T.J., Heather Sosa and Ryan, and six 
great grandchildren, Kyle, Dylan, Caiden, Nicholas, Rylie and Reed.

To honor her wishes, services will not be held; instead the family will gather 
at a later date to celebrate her life. 

She asked that her cremains be cast into the Gulf of Mexico in hopes that ocean 
currents would take her home.

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