Katherine Jean (Langel) Brandt

Katherine Jean (Langel) Brandt, left

Katherine Jean (Langel) Brandt, 80, of Rudyard, passed away peacefully at her home on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013.

Funeral services will be 11 a. m. Monday, Feb. 11, at New Beginnings Lutheran Church in Rudyard. Following burial in Rudyard Cemetery, a luncheon will be held at the church. Arrangements have been entrusted to Rockman Funeral Chapel of Chester.

"Jeanie, " as most of her family called her, was born on Jan. 24, 1933, at the homestead north of Rudyard, the sixth of 10 children of Helen McCann and Arnold "A. C." Langel. She went to grade school at Gold...