Irene Anna Helena Bremer (1895-1980)

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Irene Anna Helena Bremer was born 7 October 1895 in Lake City, Minnesota, United States to Henry M. Bremer (1868-1935) and Anna Maria Ehlers (1876-1961) and died 24 October 1980 Lake City, Minnesota, United States of recurrent and repeated cerebra-vascular accidents. She married Roy Carsten Meyer (1898-1965) 12 September 1919 in St. John's Lutheran Church, Lake City, Minnesota, United States.

Religion

Her parents were strong members of the local church, St. John's Lutheran. She was confirmed on March 7, 1916.

Education and teaching career

Irene received a college education in the early 1900's. She graduated from Winona State Teachers College with a teaching license and began to teach school near her home town of Lake City soon after. Her teaching career was marred by anti-German sentiments as WWI began. She was a first generation American raised in a primarily German community. In 1918 she was accused of making pro-German statements in her classroom by three of her students, ages 11, 12 and 15 and resigned as the charges were investigated.^[1] source

Soon after, she married and began a family of her own.

Children

Offspring of Roy Carsten Meyer (1898-1965) and Irene Bremer
Name	Birth	Death	Joined with
Ethel Irene Meyer (1920-2006)	29 August 1920 Lake City, Minnesota, United States	24 February 2006 Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, United States	James A. Finley (-1988)
Ione Anna Meyer (1923)	23 September 1923 Lake City, Minnesota, United States	16 July 2010 Lake City, Minnesota, United States	Wendell Luverne Olson (1923)