Gertrude
Gertrude Baasch Brennan
d. December 9, 2008
Gertrude Baasch Brennan passed away on December 8, 2008, in Richardson, Texas, at the home of her daughter, Katherine Anderson, where she had been living for the past year. Prior to moving to Texas, she resided in Marion, Iowa. She was 85 when she succumbed to a seventeen-year battle with cancer.
Visitation will be held 2:00-5:00 p.m. Saturday, December 13, 2008 at Miller-Law-Jones Funeral Home in Preston, Iowa. An additional viewing will be held at 1:00 p.m. Sunday December 14, 2008 prior to Funeral Services at 2:00 p.m. at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Preston. Burial will be in Miles City cemetery in Miles, Iowa.
She was born Gertrude Irene Baasch in Miles, Iowa on June 21, 1923. She graduated from Miles High School, and attended business school in Clinton, Iowa. She spent much of her working life as a bookkeeper, and in addition operated her own coffee shop in Cedar Rapids in the late 1950’s, and was well known in Clinton as an Avon Lady in the 1970’s. She was married to Melvin Kramer, originally of Mendota, Illinois, from 1943 to 1965. They had three children, Robert, Katherine, and Donald.
She retired in the early 1980’s, and in 1986 she married for the second time to James “Jim” Brennan of Crawley, West Sussex, England. They met in 1983 at the Barbershop International Convention in Seattle, WA. They shared a love of barbershop music and travel. Gert and Jim never met a stranger, and enjoyed visiting and corresponding with all of their friends and family in North America and Europe. They lived their married life in England and in the United States, primarily in Colorado, Texas, and Iowa.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Otto and Helma Baasch of Miles and Clinton, Iowa, her brother Vernon Baasch of Miles, her second husband Jim Brennan, and her first husband Melvin Kramer.
Gertrude is survived by her children, son Robert Kramer of Greenwood, Indiana, daughter Katherine Anderson of Richardson, Texas, son Donald Kramer of Suwanee, Georgia, step-daughter Anne Reevell of England, and step-son Stuart Brennan of England, and their spouses and families, including ten grandchildren and five great-grandchildren; her sister-in-law, Esther Baasch of Miles, Iowa, and her children Dianne Baasch, Deb Guyette, Denise Sullivan, and Dwight Baasch and their families; and cousins Alvin Jacobsen of Clinton, Evelyn Wieck of DeWitt, and Georgiana, Pauline, and Edward Baasch, all of Clinton, and their families.
Visitation will be held 2:00-5:00 p.m. Saturday, December 13, 2008 at Miller-Law-Jones Funeral Home in Preston, Iowa. An additional viewing will be held at 1:00 p.m. Sunday December 14, 2008 prior to Funeral Services at 2:00 p.m. at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Preston. Burial will be in Miles City cemetery in Miles, Iowa.
She was born Gertrude Irene Baasch in Miles, Iowa on June 21, 1923. She graduated from Miles High School, and attended business school in Clinton, Iowa. She spent much of her working life as a bookkeeper, and in addition operated her own coffee shop in Cedar Rapids in the late 1950’s, and was well known in Clinton as an Avon Lady in the 1970’s. She was married to Melvin Kramer, originally of Mendota, Illinois, from 1943 to 1965. They had three children, Robert, Katherine, and Donald.
She retired in the early 1980’s, and in 1986 she married for the second time to James “Jim” Brennan of Crawley, West Sussex, England. They met in 1983 at the Barbershop International Convention in Seattle, WA. They shared a love of barbershop music and travel. Gert and Jim never met a stranger, and enjoyed visiting and corresponding with all of their friends and family in North America and Europe. They lived their married life in England and in the United States, primarily in Colorado, Texas, and Iowa.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Otto and Helma Baasch of Miles and Clinton, Iowa, her brother Vernon Baasch of Miles, her second husband Jim Brennan, and her first husband Melvin Kramer.
Gertrude is survived by her children, son Robert Kramer of Greenwood, Indiana, daughter Katherine Anderson of Richardson, Texas, son Donald Kramer of Suwanee, Georgia, step-daughter Anne Reevell of England, and step-son Stuart Brennan of England, and their spouses and families, including ten grandchildren and five great-grandchildren; her sister-in-law, Esther Baasch of Miles, Iowa, and her children Dianne Baasch, Deb Guyette, Denise Sullivan, and Dwight Baasch and their families; and cousins Alvin Jacobsen of Clinton, Evelyn Wieck of DeWitt, and Georgiana, Pauline, and Edward Baasch, all of Clinton, and their families.
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