Carol Marie Brann

On Friday, April 19, 2024, Carol Marie Brann received the crown of eternal life as the Triune God welcomed her into the eternal peace and joy of heaven; she was 82. Three days after being born on Sept. 6, 1941, in Minneapolis, Carol was adopted by the Rev. Egbert and Beatrice (Steen) Boe, who then, respectively, were serving as Pastor and Choir Director of Our Savior Lutheran Church, Menomonie, Wisconsin. Carol’s adoptive parents already had a son who was age five, David, and two years later would add another daughter, Judith. While Carol was raised in Menomonie, her father accepted a call which meant her senior year of high school and graduation took place in 1960 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. While attending college at her father’s alma mater, Concordia College, Morehead, Minnesota, she married, relocated to the Detroit suburb of Allen Park, Michigan and from that union came a son, Hans in 1967 and daughter Carrie in 1969.

A year prior to her birth, her father erected a cabin on Kabekona Lake in north-central Minnesota; it was the first to feature indoor plumbing. In the 1920s, her father joined a group of seminary classmates to purchase a tract of lake front property between the towns of Walker and Benedict, Minnesota. Growing up, Carol, her siblings and mother would spend summers at that cabin, with her father joining them on holidays and vacation. Oh, how Carol enjoyed swimming, fishing, boating, walking the trails and visiting with her friends who lived in nearby cabins.

Carol delighted in being a stay-at-home mom as well as an accomplished organist and pianist who utilized her musical talents at each Lutheran congregation of which she was a member.

By the time of the birth of her third child, Joy, in 1987 her life was in flux and while her adult children had left home, she and her young daughter moved in with her sister in Wisconsin. Stability returned when she married a Lutheran pastor, the Rev. Johannes Brann, in Oct. 1989; he adopted Joy and the family relocated to Buffalo, Missouri. In 1997, the family moved to El Dorado Springs for a decade before Carol’s final move to Nevada, Missouri.

Despite contracting Multiple Sclerosis in her early 30s, Carol lived an active life centered on a lively faith in Christ Jesus as her Lord and Savior, expressed through music at church, along with sewing, embroidery, cross stitch, crocheting and quilting at home.

Carol was preceded in death by her parents and brother, David. Survivors include husband, Johannes, son Hans (Reece), daughters Carrie and Joy, sister Judith, five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, April 25 at Trinity Lutheran Church, Nevada (1630 N. Ash St.) with a visitation being held the hour prior to the service.

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