NEW HAMPTON - Luella E. Braham, 95, New Hampton, died Saturday, Aug. 18, 2001 after a brief illness at Mercy Medical Center, New Hampton.

Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 21 at St. Joseph Catholic Church with Reverend Carl Schmitt presiding. Sister Lorraine Loecher will be organist and accompany the St. Joseph Resurrection Choir and cantor Joyce Shatek.

Interment will be in Calvary Cemetery, New Hampton with Linus Boden-steiner, A1 Riley, Arnie Tierney, Joe Leibold, Lee Miller, George Knutson, Richard Ro-sonke and Richard TeKippe serving as casket bearers.

Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday, Aug. 20 at Conway Funeral Home, New Hampton where there will be a 4:30 p.m. combined Catholic Daughters and Rosary Society Rosary and a 6:30 p.m. Scripture Service. Visitation will also be at the church an hour before service time.

Luella Estella Braham was born July 11, 1906 in New Hampton, the daughter of Frank and Estella (Ennessy) Wentz. After graduating from New Hampton High School, she was employed at Olmstead and Gardner Drug Store until her marriage to George Braham on June 27, 1938 at St. Joseph's Rectory, New Hampton. She was a member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, St.. Joseph Rosary Society and the Catholic Daughters of the Americas Joan of Arc Council 388 since l927.

Survivors include one son, Donald (Kathleen), Virginia Beach, VA; one grandson; one granddaughter and one great-granddaughter.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, George, in 2000; a daughter, Marini Braham and three brothers, Orval, Raymond and Merle Wentz.

Source: New Hampton Tribune; Aug. 23, 2001 Page 4
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