Brant Kreun

Brant Kreun age 94 of Chandler, MN died Tuesday, October 7, 2008 at the Edgebrook Care Center in Edgerton, MN. Services will be 10:30 AM Monday, October 13, 2008 at the Chandler Reformed Church. Visitation will be from 4:00 until 6:00 PM Sunday, October 12, 2008 at the Chandler Funeral Chapel. Interment will be at the Chandler Memorial Cemetery. The family requests that memorials be given to either the National Ataxia Foundation or to Hope Haven. The Chandler Funeral Association is handling the arrangements. Brant Kreun was born June 24, 1914 to Carl and Gertrude (Bruxvoort) Kreun on a farm near Ada, MN in Norman County. At the age of two and a half his family moved to the Chanarambie Valley near Chandler, MN, where his father broke sod and built a farm. He was baptized and professed his faith in the Chandler Reformed Church and attended country school. Brant then worked with his father and brothers on the farm until purchasing his own. On September 20, 1938 Brant married Edna Eernisse and they made their home on a farm west of Lost Timber, near Chandler. In the early 1950’s they moved back to his family’s farm, where his wife died in 1959. Brant married Julia In’tveld Rozeboom on December 8, 1960 and they continued to make their home on the Kreun home place until moving to an earth home they built in Chandler in 1982, which was destroyed by the tornado in 1992. In 2000 Brant moved into the assisted living apartments in Edgerton, MN as his wife, Julia, became a resident of the Edgebrook Care Center in Edgerton. He continued to live in the apartment, after Julia’s death in 2001, until he then became a resident of Edgebrook in August of 2008. Brant was a farmer his whole life and loved all things growing, especially native prairie grasses and wildflowers. In his retirement years he was active in the community of Chandler, where he assisted in the Chandler park development and maintenance, and the planting and caring for trees after the 1992 tornado. He was a past member of the farm Bureau, the Dairy Herd Improvement Association and served on the Edgerton Creamery board. He served on the school boards of District #94 and the Chandler Christian School. Brant enjoyed being active in the Chandler Lion’s Club, Senior Citizens and repairing wheelchairs for Hope Haven. He was named Senior Citizen of the year in 1988 for these many community involvements. He was also active in the Chandler Reformed Church, where he served on the Consistory, as well as, numerous other committees and teaching positions. As church historian he translated over thirty years of Dutch written church minutes to English. On Tuesday, October 7, 2008 Brant died at the Edgebrook Care Center at the age of 94. Brant is survived by two sons, Carl (Julie) Kreun of Sioux Falls, SD and Glen (Joann) Kreun of Lake Forest, CA; twelve grandchildren; twenty six great grandchildren; two brothers, Henry (Ruby) Kreun of Chandler, MN and Chuck (Kathy) Kreun of Otsego, MI; six sisters, Jo Pals and Durky Baar, both of Edgerton, MN, Jan Schenk of Artesia, CA, Caroline Schierbeck of Holland, MI, Betty (Henry) VanEssen of Leota, MN and Priscilla (Cliff) Christians of Champaign, IL; many nieces, nephews and host of friends. His two wives, Edna and Julia, two sons, John and Wayne, his parents, one brother, Bill and two sisters, Adriana Roelofs and Edith VandeBunte preceded him in death. The family requests that memorials by given to either the National Ataxia Foundation or to Hope Haven.