Sept. 3, 1920 - Dec. 2, 2006
WILLMAR -- Cecelia M. Bratsch, 86, of Willmar died Saturday at Rice Memorial Hospital in Willmar.
The service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Bird Island. Burial will be at St. Aloysius Cemetery in Olivia.
Visitation will be for one hour prior to the service at the church on Saturday. Arrangements are with Dirks-Blem Funeral Service in Olivia.
She was born Sept. 3, 1920, in Olivia to William and Rose (Schubert) Bratsch. She grew up in Bird Island and attended school there.
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She married Percy Bratsch on Nov. 7, 1938. They lived in South St. Paul and she was employed by Swift and Company for 30 years. They retired to Florida for 20 years and then moved to Willmar in 1994. Percy died in 1998.
She is survived by her son: Jerome (and Eleanor) Bratsch of Burkville, Texas; four grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and her siblings; Angeline Bertrang, Rose Wrobel, Jane Wrobel, Eugene Marks, and Genevieve Gustafson.
She was preceded in death by her husband and four siblings.
