William Lett Brumm

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Brumm Pedigree

Carl (Karl) Brumm, 1811 - 1870
Anna Oswalt, between 1821-1822 - 03/06/1902

William Brumm, 02/12/1850 - 09/07/1919
Helena V. Thomas, 05/29/1854 - 06/08/1922

Olliver Clayton Brumm, 02/07/1892 - 04/03/1965
Bertha Leota Lett, 06/21/1893 - 08/03/1953

William Lett Brumm, 05/05/1921 - 05/12/1986

William Lett Brumm - Short Bio

Bill Brumm was Leota [Walker/Krekel] Brumm's second husband, and Dennis William Brumm's father. He was born March 5, 1921, and died May 12, 1986. Bill's father was Olliver (Oliver) Clayton Brumm, the grandson of German immigrants who came to the United States via New Orleans in 1850. Several years after they arrived in New Orleans they moved the family north on the Mississippi River, traveling by barge, and they departed and first made their home in Burlington, Iowa, until they were able to buy a farm near Mediapolis in Des Moines County, Iowa.

Bill's mother was Bertha Leota Lett, the daughter of Walter Lett and Sophia Johnson, both first generation Americans born to Swedish immigrants. In 1920 Bill's grandfather, also William Brumm, died, and Clayton and Bertha moved onto the family farm with their children, Helen (who would later marry Ruben Wuellner and later Ed Dressler) and Dorothy (who would marry Harold Herman and Paul Stodt). When Bill was born the next year, he was named after his grandfather. More siblings followed in the next years: Boyd (who died in the English Channel on a PT boat in World War II, Lorma (who would later marry Buck Allen), Dale (who married Norma Coffin of Louisa County, Iowa), and Kathleen (who would later married Al Erickson).

Bill graduated from Mediapolis High School in 1938. He was a veteran of World War II, serving in the navy. He spent his working career at the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant near Middletown, Iowa (which presently is a Superfund Cleanup Site).

Bill's wife, Leota [Walker] Brumm, died in November 1967; Bill married Pauline Swanson in 1971. They lived in West Burlington, Iowa. Bill died of lung cancer in 1986 after five months of miserable suffering.

Considerably more information about Bill Brumm and his own ancestors can be found in the Brumm Section and the Nuclear Family Pages of this site.

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