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Grace Brandt

Grace Brandt, 90, Rock Rapids, Iowa, died Monday, Jan. 23, 2006, at the Rock Rapids Health Care Centre in Rock Rapids. Services were Thursday, Jan. 26, at Holy Name Catholic Church in Rock Rapids with the Rev. Jeff Schleisman officiating.Grace Brandt was born Sept. 14, 1915, in Woonsocket, S.D. to Henry and Amelia (Knute) Spies. She attended country school and helped her parents on the family farm. In 1933 she and her family moved to Granite Falls, where they continued to farm. She married Leonard Brandt Sept. 10, 1934, in Milbank, S.D. They lived in Granite Falls until 1942, when they moved to Rock Rapids. She worked as a bookkeeper for an independent producer and later sold retail at Bernsteins and Rose Store in Rock Rapids for many years. Shortly before retirement she worked in the assembly line at K Products in Rock Rapids. Mr. Brandt died Jan. 26, 1971. She moved to Rock Rapids Health Centre in September 2005.Mrs. Brandt was a member of the Holy Name Catholic Church in Rock Rapids and active in the Saint Catherine Society. She was an avid bowler and continued bowling until she was 85. She enjoyed flower gardening, arts and crafts and bingo.She is survived by two daughters, Patricia (Edward) Lens, Beaver Creek, and Karen Lens, Rock Rapids; eight grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren, one sister, Florence Springer, Marshall; one sister-in-law, Mabel Brandt, Granite Falls; and several nieces and nephews.She was preceded in death by her husband, her parents, four sisters, Edna Plasky, Ella Budde, Elma Peters and Wilma Stange, and three brothers, Robert Spies, Albert Spies and William Spies.Roste Funeral Home of Rock Rapids was in charge of arrangements.

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