Obit: Brager, Marian Elizabeth (1926 - 2015)
Contact: Robert Lipprandt
bob@wiclarkcountyhistory.org
Surnames: Brager, Conard, Hughes, Kaiser, Neuhaus, Peasley, Winkler
----Source: WIGM/WKEB Obituaries (Medford, WI) 12/03/2015
Brager, Marian Elizabeth (Neuhaus) (18 JUN 1926 - 29 NOV 2015)
Marian Elizabeth Brager, 89 of Gilman, died Sunday, November 29, 2015 at Our
Lady of Victory Hospital in Stanley.
She was born on June 18, 1926, in Colby, Clark County, the 8th of 12 children to
the late William F. and Rosa L. (Winkler) Neuhaus.
She grew up in Augusta and moved with her family to Neillsville. After
graduating from Neillsville High School in 1945 she moved to Milwaukee where she
completed comptometer training and was employed as a comptometer operator.
Marian married Kenneth C. Brager on June 18, 1947 in Milwaukee. The couple
resided in Oshkosh as Ken attended UW-Oshkosh and then they moved to River Falls
where Ken attended UW-River Falls, finishing his four year teaching degree in
agriculture in 1951.
Ken's teaching career began at the former Hannibal High School where he had
taught from 1951 to 1954. He then taught one year at Abbottsford High School
before accepting a teaching position at Gilman High School where he taught 28
years prior to his retirement in 1984.
Ken headed up the renovation of the Perkinstown Winter Sports Area, organized
Gilman High School students in operation of the sports area and managed it from
1952 -1979 and again from 1984-1989. Marian managed and operated food concession
sales at the sports area during that time.
Marian was a 4-H Leader for the Poplar Grove 4-H Club for many years. She was a
longtime member of the Gilman Lioness Club and the Gilman Red Hat Society.
Marian and Ken were members of the Taylor-Clark County Beekeepers Association
and the Chippewa-Eau Claire County Beekeepers Association. She was a longtime
member of the Gilman Presbyterian Church and later the New Hope Presbyterian
Church-Hannibal.
During this time she served in many capacities: Church Elder, Sunday School
Teacher and Presbyterian Ladies Aid. Marian was passionate about birds and was a
founding member
of the Chequamegon Bird Club.
She is survived by her daughter, Beverly (Douglas) Hughes of Owatonna, MN, four
sons Larry, Dennis, and David all of Gilman, and Steven (Patricia) of Arlington,
WA; three grandchildren, Kenneth (Melissa) of Arlington, WA, and Josh Hughes and
Olivia Hughes of Owatonna, MN; 3
great-grandchildren, Kaleb, Afije and Thayer; two brothers, Arnold Neuhaus of
Milwaukee and William (Violet) Neuhaus of St. Paul, MN and one sister, Mildred
(John) Conard of Alexandria, MN.
She was preceded in death by her husband-Kenneth, her parents and brothers,
Robert, Sam, Victor, Calvin, Paul and Art and sisters, Dorothy Kaiser and Rose
Peasley.
A funeral service will be held at 11AM on Friday, December 4, 2015 at New Hope
Presbyterian Church-Hannibal with Pastor Barry Boyer officiating. Burial will
follow in Meadowbrook Cemetery-Gilman.
Visitation will be from 4 until 7 PM on Thursday at the Gilman Funeral Home and
one hour prior to services Friday at the Church.
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