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Article: OBITUARY Bobbie Brandenburg started new life at 74
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- September 13, 2009
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By AMY RABIDEAU SILVERS
Bobbie Brandenburg found love and a second family when she
married Kenneth Steele.
"She was 74 when she married my dad," said his daughter, Kathy
Sampson. "Dad was 72."
It was her first marriage. She did not change her legal name.
"Marriage was a change for Bobbie, because she was pretty much
used to being on her own," Sampson said.
Bernice H. Brandenburg -- many knew her as Bobbie -- died of
cancer Aug. 28. She was 93.
Mutual friends decided to fix up Brandenburg with Steele, a
Pewaukee farmer who became a Milwaukee schoolteacher, after he was
suddenly widowed in 1987. He had been married for 46 years to Doris
Steele.
Sometime later, Steele said he wanted to talk to ...