Lois Faye Brummels

COLERIDGE — Lois Faye Brummels, 94, Coleridge, died Feb. 21, 2018, at Park View Haven Nursing Home, Coleridge. Visitation was Friday at the Immanuel Lutheran Church, Coleridge, and continued Saturday at the church. Funeral services were Feb. 24 at Immanuel Lutheran Church, with Rev. Russ Lambert officiating. Burial was in the Lawn Ridge Cemetery, Coleridge. Honorary Pallbearers were her granddaughters, Jackie Froendt, Brenda Tyndall, Patt Gall, Carol Stewart, Kara Wiedeman, Anne Schulte, Kendra Kemnitz, Evie Potts, Melissa Doerr and Laura Brummels. Pallbearers were her grandsons, Douglas Brummels, Mike Nelson, Lee Potts, Jeff Brummels, Jeremy Brummels, Peter Brummels, Daniel Brummels, Thomas Brummels, Chris Brummels and David Brummels. The Wintz Funeral Home, Coleridge, assisted with arrangements. Lois was born Jan. 22, 1924, in Randolph, to James Daniel and Chloe (Griffith) Coulter. She grew up on the Coulter family farm near Randolph and attended a rural country grade school and Randolph High School through the tenth grade. She worked for various families in the Randolph area as a hired girl and baby sitting and worked at the Joe Miller grocery store. Lois and Gilbert E. Brummels were married at the St. John Lutheran Church Parsonage, Randolph, Sept. 12, 1944, while he was home on leave from the U.S. Navy. After Gilbert was discharged, the couple farmed on several farms near Randolph, three years near Brunswick, and then moved to a farm west of Coleridge where they lived for 47 years before moving into Coleridge in 2001. Lois was a loving, hardworking, dedicated wife, mother and homemaker. She baked many batches of delicious homemade bread, pies, angel food cakes and picked lots of strawberries from her large strawberry patch. She made many jars of jelly and quarts of canned goods. Lois enjoyed handiwork to include making crafts and crocheting afgans and other gifts for all her grandchildren. Lois loved to dance when younger and could play the piano by ear. She and Gilbert enjoyed square dancing for many years. Lois belonged to the Immanuel Lutheran Church and the Ladies Circle in Coleridge and the Willing Workers Extension Club. Lois is survived by her husband of 73 and one half years, Gilbert, Coleridge; five children, Judy and Ron Nelson, Coleridge; Robert and Kathy Brummels, Coleridge; Joan and Jim Potts, Hartington; Dwight and Gloria Brummels, Randolph; Kent and Debbie Brummels, Hartington; a daughter-in-law, Gloria Brummels, Hartington; 20 grandchildren, 39 great-grandchildren, one great-great-grandson, a sister, Gloria and Omar Smith, Norfolk; a brother-in-law, Robert and Darlene Brummels, Elkhorn; four sisters-in-law, Verlene Ryan, Norfolk; Delma Ronspies, Norfolk; Frances Brummels, Ewing; Joanne Brummels, Pasa Robles, Calif.; and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; a son, Gaylen; grandson, John Brummels; great-granddaughter, Aimee Brummels; three sisters, Olive B. Albrecht, Onalie M. Nordhues and Glyde L. Hise; and several nieces and nephews.