Funeral services for Isabelle N. Brenner, age 87 of Bismarck, formerly of Carson, will be held at 3:00 pm Sunday, January 10, 2010 at the New Leipzig Baptist Church with Pastor Al Gaines officiating.

Inurnment will be in the Leith Cemetery at Leith.
Serving as casketbearers are Gail Mitchell, Jim Fox, James Fox, Travis Lubbers, Michael Triepke, and Rocky Babel.

Isabelle Naomi Schmitz was born October 3, 1922 to Nick and Ethel (Hanson) Schmitz at their farm in Grant County south of Leith, ND. She attended Wheeler School until 1936. Following her graduation from Leith High School in 1939, did some traveling and teaching.

On October 29, 1944 she was married to Charles F. Brenner at St. John's Church in the Paradise Community of Grant County. They lived in Elgin, ND and McIntosh, SD where she taught school for several years before they moved to Killdeer, ND. She worked as a bookkeeper in Killdeer, ND and as a Nurses Aide in Glasgow, MT where they moved in 1962 and in Anchorage, Alaska where they lived from 1970 to 1986. Isabelle retired from Providence Hospital in September of 1986 and they traveled for a time before moving to Carson, ND in June of 1987. They continued to travel, visiting family and making new friends in many states.

The Brenner's were blessed with four children, Evonne & Margaret, born in Elgin, ND and Tom & Cathy, born in Dickinson, ND.

Isabelle loved to keep active and busy doing things. She participated in Homemakers Club while in North Dakota and in her church's women's missionary society in Montana and playing with her grandchildren while in Anchorage. She made many crocheted, tatted and broom-sick lace items for herself and others. She loved to travel and to sing. She must have had a song in her heart because she was always humming. She enjoyed helping her sisters lead sing-alongs at Dakota Hill in Elgin for many years before she became a resident there.

She passed away on January 6, 2010 at the Missouri Slope Lutheran Care Center in Bismarck.

Grateful for having shared in her life is her son, Tom and his wife, Sara Brenner, of Anchorage, Alaska; daughters, Evonne Rowse of San Antonio, Texas, Margaret and her husband, Pastor Gail Mitchell of Iowa City, Iowa; and Cathy and her husband, Jim Fox of Brownsburg, Indiana; 10 grandchildren; 7 great grandchildren; 3 sisters, Vivian Usher of Bismarck, North Dakota; Barbara Babel of Mandan, North Dakota, and Evelyn Eisenbarth of Elgin, North Dakota.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, and her sister, Bernice Pagel.


Visitation will be on Sunday from 1:00 to 3:00 pm at the New Leipzig Baptist Church.