Martha Braun          Send a link to a friend

MOUNT PULASKI -- Martha L. Braun, 80, of Mount Pulaski died Thursday, Sept. 22, 2005, at 12:19 p.m. at Decatur Memorial Hospital.

Her funeral will be at 1:30 p.m. Monday at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Mount Pulaski, with the Rev. Tom Cruikshank officiating. Visitation will be from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the funeral home.

Burial will be in Mount Pulaski Cemetery.

Mrs. Braun was a homemaker.

She was born June 4, 1925, in Decatur to Russell and Hazel Garver Marques. She married Leslie H. "Red" Braun at Zion Lutheran Church in Mount Pulaski on Jan. 9, 1947.

She is survived by her husband, of Mount Pulaski; one son, Leslie A. (and Diane) Braun of Upper Marlboro, Md.; one daughter, Vickie (and Dale) Crosier of Maroa; three brothers, Jack (and Delores) Marques of Oreana, Ron (and Joyce) Marques of Decatur and Jerry (and Gloria) Marques of Decatur; two sisters, Rosemary Anderson of Decatur and Karen (and Eugene) Boliard of Staunton; and four grandchildren, Chris Braun of Denver, Colo., Brad (and Dawn) Braun of Annapolis, Md., Beth (and Eric) Augenstein of St. Louis, Mo., and Sara Crosier of St. Louis, Mo.

She was a member of Our Redeemer Lutheran Church, Forsyth, and memorials may be made to the church.