Visitation:
9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Thursday, January 18, 2018, at
11:00 a.m. at Faith Lutheran Church
Service:
11 a.m. Thursday at the church
Funeral home: Peasley Funeral Home, Lincoln
Obituary
Mary Ann Liesman Underwood Bratcher,
90, of Lincoln passed away on Monday, January 15,
2018, at the Christian Village Nursing Home.
Funeral Services will be held on Thursday, January
18, 2018, at 11:00 a.m. at Faith Lutheran Church
with Pastor Mark Peters officiating. Visitation will
be held from 9:00 a.m. until time of the service at
the church.
Burial will be in Old Union Cemetery in Lincoln.
Mary Ann Liesman was born on February 8, 1927, in
Hartsburg, the daughter of Reynold Herman and Cora
Caroline West Liesman. She was united in marriage to
Thomas Edwin Underwood on November 25, 1947, at Zion
Lutheran Church in Lincoln. She later married
Kenneth Eugene Bratcher on September 5, 1987, at the
St. John’s Lutheran Church in Hartsburg. Her
husbands preceded her in death.
She is survived by her children: Daniel (Brenda)
Underwood, Nancy Miller, Patricia Eimer, Donna
(Doug) Klawitter, Jo (Gene) Johnson, and Steve
(Mary) Bratcher; two sisters: Verniece Hoffert and
Ruth Steffens; six grandchildren: Linda Cox, Thomas
Miller, Keith (Jessica) Klawitter, Jaimie Klawitter,
Amy Johnson, and Liz (Jason) Duncan; five
great-grandchildren: Carolyn Chapman, Elizabeth
Chapman, Alex Cox, Parker Duncan, and Tyler Duncan.
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Mary Ann was preceded in death by her husbands; sons
: Scott and Stephen Underwood; granddaughter Lori Chapman; grandson
Terry Cox; brothers: Orville “Irish" Liesman, Gerald Liesman, and
Wilbur Liesman; and sisters: Betty Nichols and Geneva Haseley.
Mary Ann was a member of Faith Lutheran Church. She was a member of
the Hartsburg MNO Card Club, Round Robin Pinochle Club, Hartsburg
American Legion Auxiliary, Oasis Senior Center, and Abe’s Babes Red
Hat group.
She volunteered at Faith Lutheran Church and Abraham Lincoln
Memorial Hospital.
Mary Ann worked at Lord’s Department Store and retired from Lincoln
Development Center.
Memorials may be made to Faith Lutheran Church.
Final arrangements are entrusted with Peasley Funeral Home of
Lincoln.
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