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Jeannette Myrtle (nee Bruns) Mutter

PORTAGE - Jeannette Myrtle (nee Bruns) Mutter, age 70, of Portage, passed away on Thursday, September 24, 2015 at Tivoli in Portage.

 Jeannette was born on January 12, 1945 in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, and spent her first ten years in Pelican Rapids, MN.  Jeannette moved with her family to Lyndon Station, Wisconsin in 1955 and to Portage, Wisconsin in 1960.  She graduated from Portage Senior High School in 1963. 

Jeannette was involved in the Portage community for many years.  She was employed by the Portage Hosiery Company.  She worked at the Baraboo Ammunitions Plant and Divine Savior Hospital.  Jeannette later worked part-time as a pet sitter and a sample lady at Kmart.  She did clerical work at the Bennett & Bennett Law Firm.  She instructed a class in crocheting at the Columbia County Community College in Portage. 

She was on the Board of Directors at Columbia County Humane Society Shelter and assisted finding foster homes for cats.  She also served the community as an election judge.  She was a member of the Wisconsin Synod Lutheran Church’s altar guild.  Jeannette loved people, cats and crocheting and loved to enter her crocheted afghans at the Columbia County Fair.  She also showed her cats in competition at the fair where she won several ribbons for both her afghans and her cats.

Jeannette was married to Mathias Mutter in 1966 and they lived in Portage, Wisconsin.  She is preceded in death by her husband Mathias Mutter (1990), her parents Muriel June (nee Logan) Bruns (1993), Robert L. Bruns (2006), and brother Ronald L. Bruns (2010).

Jeannette is survived by her sister Dee Ann Bruns (Jay) Naftzger, Naperville, IL, and a brother Donald R. (Kim) Bruns, Savage, MN.  She was aunt to Jessica (John) Eterno, LaGrange, IL, Jason (Robin) Funk, Oak Park, IL, Deanna Bruns Goakey, Tyler (Vicki) York, Pardeeville, WI, Jennifer Bruns, Viola, WI, Rhonda (Jaren) Parchem, Baraboo, WI, Robert G. Bruns, Inver Grove Heights, MN and Michael Bruns, Gilbert, AZ, and her beloved grand nieces and grand nephews.

Funeral services will be at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, September 27, 2015 at Pflanz Mantey Mendrala Funeral Home in Portage with Chaplain Gloria Stubitsch officiating. Burial will follow in Oak Grove Cemetery. Visitation will be from 12:00 noon until the time of the service at the funeral home.

 In lieu of flowers, memorials to Columbia County Humane Society, Portage, WI in Jeannette’s name are appreciated.

 

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