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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