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Mary Brummer

[DEC. 4, 2006]  Mary Louise Brummer, 78, of Lincoln died Sunday, Dec. 3, 2006, at 9:50 a.m. at Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital.

Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Lincoln.

A celebration of her life will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Faith Lutheran Church, with the Rev. Mark Peters officiating.

Burial will be in Hartsburg Union Cemetery, Hartsburg, at a later date.

Miss Brummer was a retired teacher, writer, editor and licensed practical nurse.

She was born Dec. 18, 1927, in Lincoln to Herman and Tasie Conrady Brummer.

She is survived by one sister, Angelina Sandel of Lincoln; one niece, Mary Kay Flanagan of Mahomet; two nephews, David (and Margaret) Sandel of Urbana and John (and Karen) Sandel of Lincoln; nine great-nieces and great-nephews; and a godson.

She was preceded in death by parents

She was a member of Faith Lutheran Church and the DeWitt-Logan Retired Teachers Association.

She taught 32 years in Lutheran elementary schools and served as organist and choir director for Lutheran churches in Stuttgart, Ark., Danville and St. Louis, Mo.

From 1965 to 1975 she served as curriculum writer and editor with the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Board of Parish Services in St. Louis.

In 1976 she completed course requirements for practical nurse licensure and then worked as an L.P.N. for five years in St. Louis area hospitals. While in St. Louis she served several years as a live-in volunteer missionary in a poverty area in the inner city.

She served several years on the international board of Ladies Full Gospel Fellowship Inc.

After retirement, she was a substitute teacher in Lutheran and Catholic schools in the St. Louis area.

Miss Brummer graduated from Concordia Teachers' College in River Forest, where she earned both bachelor's and master's degrees.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Faith Lutheran Church or St. Clara's Manor.

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