Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1917 — Obituary. [ARTICLE]

Obituary.

Otto Herman Braun was bom in Droswetlkback, Germany, Dec. o«, 1878, and died at his home in Lowell, May 12, 1917, aged 38 yeans, 4 months and 11 days. In the year 1901 he was united in marriage to Miss Kathryn Oelkers, to which union were born five children. - Hans, the eldest, born in Germany, Margaret, Otto, Jr., Annie and Helen.— Mr. Braun began his musical career at the age of 14. He served the fatherland three years as a musician in the army. In the year 1902, with his yduh" wife and son, he turned his face toward the western world, his heart aflame with a passion of service in a larger field of opportunity than the fatherland afforded, his ear attuned to the music of the growing industrial world, his desire to secure for himself and family a competence for life, brought him across the sea to a new world where he found a place, and strove industriously to fill it with great acceptability. After spending five happy years in America he went before the court, took out his first papers of naturaliallegiance to the country of his adoption. Through the years he has been imbued with the American ideals and in perfect sympathy with its spirit us patriotism. He leaves to mourn his departure a loving wife and two sons, three daughters, a mother, four brothers, three of whom are, or were, in the German army; three sisters, his father having preceded him in death five years ago. At the time of his death he was director of four bands, Hebron, Hanover Center, St. John and Lowell. These communities will suffer a distinct loss, for Mr. Braun, through his splendid work and persistence, has done much to improve and enrich the life of these communities, — s