Abridged Obituary - The Oakdale Sentinel, Thursday, July 27, 1950

Carrie Marie (Petersen) Brandt

Carrie Marie Petersen was born September 12, 1880, at Copenhagen, Denmark, to Nels and Christiana Petersen, and passed away at 10:30 p.m. Monday evening, July 17, 1950 at the Tilden hospital at the age of sixty-nine years, ten months and five days. At the age of two she, with her parents and older sister, Anna, came to America, settling in Omaha. They lived here for ten years, then moving to a farm southeast of Brunswick. Since then she had made her home in Antelope County. The past thirty-six years were spent in her home one-mile east and four north of Oakdale. She was united in marriage to Charles Downs in the year of 1896. To this union three sons and one daughter were born. The oldest son, George, passed away when he was nearly a year old. On June 30, 1914, she was united in marriage to Fred Brandt. To this union one son and one daughter were born. Mrs. Brandt was first stricken with the dread disease of cancer in the early spring of 1948. In spite of all that medical aid and loving hands could do, she grew steadily worse and on Monday, May 15, she was taken to the Tilden hospital and as the days went on and she still lived, hope again grew that this mother and friend would be spared for many years to come. But she slowly grew weaker and the life that had been so useful and thoughtful to others was incapable of sustaining itself, and she quietly went to sleep at her usual time to sleep each night. With the passing of this citizen the family loses one whose whole life was spent in service to her lived ones, her home and beautiful flowers she loved so well. A loving memory of her will always remain ling after the last farewells have been said in the hearts of her family and many friends. The past several months she was a complete invalid and suffered intense pain and was tenderly cared for by her family. She bore pain cheerfully, with always a smile and kind word for her family. Her pastor, Rev. Victor Engleman, ministered her to in a spiritual way. She was baptized in the Danish Lutheran Church. Her parents preceded her in death as did her small son, George, and a younger brother, Lars. Beside her husband, she leaves two daughters and three sons: Elbert Downs of Tilden, Walter Downs of Oakdale, Mrs. Thomas Schutt of Neligh, Ben Brandt of Oakdale and Lucille Brandt at home; three daughters-in-law; one son-in-law; ten grandchildren; seven great grandchildren; three sisters, Mrs. Anna Rice of Raton, NM., Mrs. Vella Denson of Tilden and Mrs. Elsie Norris of Brunswick; one brother, Walter Petersen of Grants Pass, Or. Besides many other relatives and a host of friends who will long mourn for this dear one. Funeral services were held Friday, July 21, at the Evangelical and Reformed Lutheran Church in Tilden, Rev. R. M. Jensen of Columbus officiating. Burial was in the IOOF cemetery in Tilden.

Mrs. Sophia BRANDT

Mrs. Sophia Brandt, a pioneer settler of the Mars neighborhood in western Knox County died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Anna Purdy of La Porte City, Iowa last Thursday and her remains arrived here Saturday afternoon and were immediately taken to the home of her son, Charles Brandt, where they rested until Sunday when burial was made beside her husband. The services were held at the Millerboro church, the Rev. Enoch Nye officiating. There was a very large attendance of the many old neighbors and friends of the family. Mrs. Brandt died as a result paralysis. She was known as a woman endowed with a beautiful character. She was a kind and dutiful wife, a loving and faithful mother, and a peaceful and generous friend. Her death is not only mourned by the members of her own immediate family but by scores of old friends and neighbors. Sophia Rabuck was born in 1835. In 1856 she was married to Fredrick Brandt and moved to Nebraska and the homestead in near Mars in 1881. Ten children were born to this union, three dying in infancy. The living being Mrs. Wallace Haskins and Chas. Brandt of Mars, Fred Brandt of Arnold ranch, Mrs. Emma Jacobs and Mrs. Anna Purdy and Arnold Brandt of La Porte City, Iowa and Mrs. Kate Burton of Neligh. The husband died in 1898. There are fifty-three grandchildren and thirty-three great grandchildren surviving.