| Obituary |
George I. Brandner, 98, of Ladd died at 7:30 a.m. Nov. 19, 2011, in Illinois Veterans Home at La Salle. Funeral services will be at 3 p.m. Wednesday in Hollowayville United Church of Christ with Pastor Mike Slutz officiating. Burial will be at Val-ley Mem-orial Park with full military services by Ladd American Legion.
Visitat-ion will be 5-8 p.m. Tuesday in Hurst Funeral Home, Ladd, and from 2:30 p.m. until the time of services Wednesday in the church.
Mr. Brandner was born Sept. 4, 1913, in Earlville to A.L. and Bertha (Mickelson) Brandner. He married June Carlisle in Chicago on April 19, 1941. She died July 15, 1999. He then married the Rev. Janet Sills, pastor of Ladd Presbyterian Church. She died July 15, 2003.
He attended Marseilles High School and Diesel Engineering School in Chicago.
Mr. Brandner served in the U.S. Army Air Corps with a carrier squadron as a staff sergeant flight chief in combat gilder operations and mechanics. He spent 30 months overseas, serving in North Africa, Eqypt, Libya, Tunisia, Sicily, England and France. He received nine unit battle stars, distinguished unit badge with three oak leaf clusters, African, Middle East and European theater badge, good conduct bar, six overseas bars. He was a pilot in the U.S. Civil Air Patrol operating from the Spring Valley airport.
He operated a paint store in La Salle and then at Midway Plaza in Peru for nine years. He then farmed, was doing custom combining, operating a corn shelling and trucking business.
Mr. Brandner was a 65-year member of Ladd American Legion Post 938 serving as commander, chaplain, and historian. He also was a member of Ladd Moose, 72-year member of Ladd Presbyterian Church and was current member of Hollowayville United Church of Christ.
Survivors are one son, Glen (Carolyn) Brandner of rural Arlington; two daughters, Janet (Dwight) Shumann of Normal and Mary (Richard) May of La Salle; six grandsons, one granddaughter, nine great-grandchildren; one great-great grandson; and one brother, Harlan (Marguerite) Brandner of Ladd.
He is preceded in death by two sisters, Lorene Brandner and Gladys Sheridan; one brother, Wilbur Brandner.
Pallbearers will be his grandsons, Craig Wright, Todd, Brandon and Ryan May, Joe and Chris Brandner.
Memorials may be directed to Ladd American Legion Post 938 or Hollowayville United Church of Christ.
Published in the News Tribune Nov. 21, 2011. |
1913 - 2011 (98 years)
