W. EVERETT BRANDT

DEATH CAME AS HE PLANNED TO RETURN HOME
W. Everett Brandt, of this City Passes Away at Milwaukee
Another of Life’s unexplainable tragedies, when youth is made victim by the
grim spectre, came in the death late yesterday of William Everett Brandt, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Brandt of this city, at Milwaukee where he had been
for two weeks receiving treatment. Just entering upon the threshold of manhood,
with education and qualifications that bespoke a successful career, he was
stricken down and within a few brief weeks, marked by Death for its own.
News of the critical illness of Mr. Brandt was received yesterday morning when
members of the family were summoned to his bedside at Muirdale sanitarium, came
as a shock to friends who while aware of his illness, were unacquainted with the
seriousness of his condition and when news of the death was received later in
the day it awakened keenest sympathy for the bereaved parents and sisters.
Mr. Brandt’s death occurred at 3 o’clock and was peaceful, he having been
conscious to the very end. He had planned to return to his home here this week
and in letters only a day or two previously had revealed this plan, believing
that he was improving and that he would make more rapid gains at home. Even when
members of the family arrived at Muirdale he reiterated his intention to come
home but the home coming was different than he had anticipated.
Funeral on Saturday
The body was brought here from Milwaukee last evening and taken to the family
home on North Tenth street. Funeral service will be held Saturday afternoon at
2 o’clock from the Presbyterian church where the body will be taken at noon
Saturday, no services being held at the home. The Rev. M.S. Weber will officiate
and burial will be at Evergreen.
Mr. Brandt was born in this city on May 21, 1904, being 21 at his death. He
attended the local schools and later when his parents removed to Marshfield
continued his studies there but returned here to enter the high school for three
years. He graduated from the Fond du Lac high school in June 1931 and was a member
of the champion debating school team of the state and of the Inner circle and
circle Forum. He became interested in newspaper work, which his father follows and
for a time was a reporter on the Herald-News but later went to the Aluminum Goods
company where he was employed in the advertising department. But the lure of the
printer’s ink was strong and he returned to newspaper work, being employed on the
Wausau Record Herald and later the Iron Mountain News. A few months ago he returned
here and was with the Huppert Auto company as a salesman at the time his health
broke and two months ago he was forced to give up his work and since that time had
been in steady declined until the end came yesterday.
Ardent Sport Fan
Mr. Brandt has always been an ardent sport fan and much of his newspaper work was
in that department. As a boy he was mascot for the old championship Manitowoc team
and later mascot of the Marshfield team, Valley champions. He was a close follower
of local and national sports and was well posted and keenly alive to the events as
they occurred.
Mr. Brandt is survived by his parent and by three sisters, Lucile, Helene and Jane,
all of this city. His death is a great shock in the family and will arouse the
deepest sympathy of the community where he was so well known and had spent most of
his short life.
To those of us who, through association with his work, knew Everett Brandt best, he
was recognized as a young man for whom the future held bright promise. Possessed of
qualifications that fitted him for a career, he was keenly alert and energetic and
maturing years would have brought him to realization of the ambitious future which
he had planned. His death at a time when life was happiest and the future bright
with hope, is a sad one.
Manitowoc Herald News, November 6, 1925 P. 10