rwbrauer@iland.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Denise Hoehns" <rwbrauer@iland.net> To: <MOBENTON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2003 10:43 AM Subject: Wilbert Brauer dies > Please note: Many obits contain many errors. > > Warsaw Paper, Jan. 27, 1956 > > COLE CAMP RESIDENT KILLED WHEN TRUCK SKIDS, STRIKES TREE > > Wilbert Brauer, of Cole Camp, met instant death at about 12:15 o'clock > Thursday afternoon of last week, when a 1954 one-half ton Dodge pick-up in > which he was riding with two other men crashed into a tree after the truck > skidded on some ice packed snow. The accident occurred on Highway 72, > fourteen miles south of Rolla, Mo. > > Brauer, and his two companions, B. H. Elliott, owner and driver of the > truck, of Hartville, Mo., and Tom Bell of Nobby, Mo., are all employees of > the H. J. Hessefort Construction Co. of Cole Camp and were working on a road > project on Route K at Redford, Mo., in Reynolds County. Due to a work > shutdown on the construction project on Thursday because of the inclement > weather, the men decided to spend the weekend at their homes and were > enroute to Cole Camp when the accident happened. > > According to information received the truck skidded off the highway, rolled > down a 25-ft. embankment and crashed into a tree. Brauer was thrown through > the windshield from the impact and Elliot was also thrown out of the truck, > receiving a skull fracture. Bell, the other occupant, escaped uninjured. > > The body of Mr. Brauer was brought to Cole Camp in the Eickhoff ambulance > and taken to the Eickhoff Funeral Home. > > Elliott was taken to the Phillips County Hospital at Rolla. > > Obituary > > Wilbert Henry Brauer was born at Walnut, Kansas on April 27, 1911, a son of > William and Mathilda Munsterman Brauer. At the age of three years he came to > Cole Camp with his parents. He was baptized on May 21, 1911 by the Rev. > Mueller at Walnut, Kansas. On April 5, 1925 he was confirmed in the Lutheran > faith by the Rev. R. Kranz at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Brauersville, > northeast of Cole Camp. > > On June 9, 1935 he united in marriage with Miss Dora Steffens. The couple > have resided at Cole Camp. Six children were born to this union. A son, > Leroy, preceded the father in death at the age of two years. > > He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Dora Brauer, two sons, Elroy and Ray Dean > and three daughters, Sharon and Margaret, all of the home and Delores, Mrs. > Vernon Brown of Cole Camp; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Brauer, five > brothers, Homer, Raymond, Norman and Leonard, all of Cole Camp, and Elmer > Brauer of Brazilton, Kansas and one sister, Lydia, Mrs. Harvey Luetjen, Cole > Camp. One sister preceded him in death. > > He attained the age of 44 years, 8 months and 22 days. > > Funeral services were held at 1:30 p. m. Sunday at the Eickhoff Funeral > Home, and at St. Paul's Am. Lutheran Church, Cole Camp at 2 o'clock. The > Rev. Elmer H. Kuhlmann conducted the services. The church choir with Mrs. > Robert Gerken as organist, sang, "What A Friend We Have In Jesus," "Abide > With Me" and "In The Hour of Trial." > > Pallbearers were: Rudy Haase, Fred Schutte, Florence Koeller, Ralph Kreisel, > Herman Brauer and Marvin Boeschen. > > Burial was at Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery, Brauersville. > > rwbrauer@iland.net >