{"id":16843,"date":"2024-09-13T14:30:17","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T19:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/?p=16843"},"modified":"2024-09-14T07:55:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T12:55:02","slug":"margie-nell-obrien-elkader-iowa-september-12-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/2024\/09\/margie-nell-obrien-elkader-iowa-september-12-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Margie Nell O’Brien, Elkader, Iowa, September 12, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Margie Nell (Olson) O\u2019Brien 96, of Elkader, Iowa, died peacefully on Thursday, September 12, 2024, at the Kingston Court Assisted Living. She was born September 8th, 1928, in rural St. Olaf, Iowa, to Millard and Valdene (Wettleson) Olson. She was baptized and confirmed at the Norway Lutheran Church near St. Olaf, Iowa.<\/p>\n

Margie was educated in rural St. Olaf, Iowa and completed high school at Postville High School, graduating in 1946.<\/p>\n

She married Edwin O\u2019Brien, and ten children were born to this union. They farmed in Clayton County. Margie enjoyed music, cooking, baking, and being a home maker and \u201csafety officer for the boys\u201d. She was a quiet, humble, hard worker, taking care of her family, home and helping Edwin as she could. Margie definitely was the backbone of the family. She will be remembered for her baked breads and buns fresh from the oven when the kids arrived home on the bus from school. She loved her grandchildren and great-grandchildren and always made sure that she had fresh baked goods when they came to visit.<\/p>\n

Margie was a 50 year member of St. Peter\u2019s Catholic Church in Clermont. In her younger years, she was very active in church circles, working at various events and always checking to make sure that things were getting done and ready! Margie worked at Swiss Valley Farms in St. Olaf for 18 years.<\/p>\n

Surviving are her children, Dennis O\u2019Brien Kailua, Hi, Terry (Mary) O\u2019Brien Rockford, IL, Steve (Barb) O\u2019Brien, Asbury, IA, James (Dawn) O\u2019Brien Parkville, Mo, Jeff (Leanne) O\u2019Brien Cedar Rapids, IA, Lori (Joe) King Eagleton, WI, Greg (Sandra) O\u2019Brien Decorah, Randy O\u2019Brien Virginia Beach VA, David O\u2019Brien New York, NY and Michael O\u2019Brien Clermont, IA; \u00a0grandchildren Carriee, Jason, Paul, Brian, Travis, Eryn, Emily, Brandon, Jordan, Brittany, Nicole, Alan, Sean, Molly, Megan, Nicole, Travis, Ashley and 25 great grandchildren.<\/p>\n

She was preceded in death by her parents, Millard and Valdene; husband, Edwin: brother Clifton; a daughter-in- law, Mary Rose and grand-daughter Kristy.<\/p>\n

The family would like to thank Kingston Court assisted living facility and especially the staff for the kind and compassionate care, with a special thanks to Madison and Kaitlin.<\/p>\n

Visitation<\/strong>:\u00a0 9 AM to 10:15 AM – Monday, September 16, 2024, at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Elkader<\/p>\n

Mass of Resurrection<\/strong>:\u00a0 10:30AM, Monday, September 16, 2024, at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Elkader with Rev. John Haugen as Celebrant<\/p>\n

Interment<\/strong>: St. Joseph\u2019s Catholic Cemetery, Elkader<\/p>\n

Leonard-Grau Funeral Home and Cremation Service of Elkader is assisting the Family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Margie Nell (Olson) O\u2019Brien 96, of Elkader, Iowa, died peacefully on Thursday, September 12, 2024, at the Kingston Court Assisted Living. She was born September 8th, 1928, in rural St. Olaf, Iowa, to Millard and Valdene (Wettleson) Olson. She was baptized and confirmed at the Norway Lutheran Church near St. Olaf, Iowa. Margie was educated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-16843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-obrien"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16843"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16850,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16843\/revisions\/16850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}