Surnames: Brehm, Malik, Schullhauser, Grassl, Radloff, Carswell, Simon

----Source: Marshfield News Herald (Marshfield, Wood County, Wis.) Monday, 18 Dec. 2006

Brehm, Marie (3 Sept. 1914 - 15 Dec. 2006)

COLBY - Marie Brehm, 92, of Colby, died Friday, Dec. 15, 2006, at Continental Manor in Abbotsford, Wis.

Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 21, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Colby, Wis. Monsignor John Malik will officiate.

Burial will be in St. Mary’ Catholic Cemetery. Her grandsons will serve as pallbearers.

Visitation will be from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2006, at Community Funeral Home, Colby, Wis. There will be a parish prayer service at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.

Marie was born Sept. 3, 1914, in the town of Auburndale, Wood County, to Mike and Barbra (nee Schullhauser) Grassl. Marie and Roland Brehm were married Oct. 7, 1935, in Auburndale. He died in 1991. Before her marriage she worked in Marshfield and Evanston, Ill. She then became a farm wife for 42 years.

She was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church and St. Regina’s Circle. She was an avid reader and greatly enjoyed time spent with her family. She also enjoyed birds, trees, gardening and flowers. We cherish her memory by appreciating God’s gift of nature.

Marie is survived by her children, Sister Jocelyn Brehm of Woodruff, Edward (Marilyn) Brehm of Unity, Margaret (Mark) Radloff of Plymouth, Thomas (Linda) Brehm of Unity, Dennis (Karla) Brehm of Spencer, and Gerard (Rachel) Brehm of Albany, Ore.; 13 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren; her brother, Matt (Betsy) Grassl of Auburndale; and her sister, Agatha Carswell of Thermopolis, Wyo.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband Roland; an infant daughter, Barbara; two brothers, Richard Grassl and Edward Grassl; and two sisters, Odelia Simon and Sister Gladys Anne Grassl.