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Edith (Stein) Leibrand

Helena, OK. -- Graveside service for Edith Liebrand, 101, will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday beside her husband in Good Hope Cemetery near Helena. The Rev. Michael Henrichs will officiate. Arrangements are by Kenny Lanman Funeral Home.

The family will greet friends before the service at the Helena Christian Church. The casket will remain closed at all times.

She was born Aug. 22, 1893, near Keota, Keokuk County, Iowa, the first of four children to Pete and Emma Barbara Klett Stein and died Sunday, Oct. 16, 1994, at the Billings Fairchild Center where she had been a resident for the past 11 years. She became surrogate mother to her infant brother, Ira, at age of eight when their mother died. The family moved from Iowa to Cherokee in 1908. She graduated from Cherokee High School in 1912, then attended the University of Oklahoma in Norman. She taught school for a year northeast of Helena, and married John S. Liebrand. He died in 1975. They lived in Burlington before moving to Helena. They moved into the town of Helena in 1923. The couple were active in school and community affairs as well as in wheat farming.

Surviving are one son, Dr. Clair Liebrand of Bartlesville, OK.; three daughters Mary Lou Foltz of Billings, Jo Ann Barron of Tulsa, and Jean Masquelier of Helena; three half-brothers, Don and Leroy Stein of Cherokee and Clifford Stein of Amarillo, Texas; one half-sister, Ruth Dillon of Lamar, Colo.; 11 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.

Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by one daughter and one grandson.

Memorials may be made through the funeral home to the church.