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Karen Brandt
KAREN BRANDT
Wellman
Karen I. Brandt, 67, of Wellman, died suddenly at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014. A celebration of life will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 4, at Peterseim Funeral Home in Kalona. Burial will follow at Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Joetown. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 3, at the funeral home.
A general memorial fund has been established.
Karen Ilene (Butter-baugh) Brandt was born Jan. 5, 1947, in Washington, Iowa, the daugther of Dairld and Yevonne (Romine) Butterbaugh. She graduated from Mid-Prairie High School in 1966. While she was in high school, she worked as a waitress at the Capper Cafe. After graduation she worked at Sheller Globe in Iowa City.
On Oct. 7, 1972, she was united in marriage to Gaylord Brandt and the couple enjoyed traveling the country for many years thanks to Gaylord's employment as a boilermaker. The couple later divorced.
Karen then worked in the kitchen at Parkview Manor in Wellman for three years and in 1994, began working in housekeeping at the University of Iowa on the burn unit, where she had been employed.
She loved animals of all kinds.
Survivors include her son, Eric Brandt of Wellman; one sister, Juanita Kauffman of Washington, Iowa; a number of nieces and nephews; an uncle; an aunt and a cousin.
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