A memorial service for 59-year-old Jean A. Oeltjenbruns of Jackson, Minnesota, will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Friday morning, March 27, 2015, at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in Jackson.
Burial will take place immediately following the service at Sunset Cemetery in Jackson.
Pastor John Schuetz will officiate at the services.
Visitation will be held Thursday evening, March 26, 2015, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Osterberg Funeral Home in Jackson, and will continue one hour prior to the funeral service at the church on Friday. Osterberg Funeral Home in Jackson is located at 510 5th Street.
Jean A. Oeltjenbruns passed away at her home in Jackson on Monday, March 23, 2015.
Jean Ann Oeltjenbruns was born on December 11, 1955, the daughter of Donald and Dorothy (Markquart) Syverson in Trimont, Minnesota. She was baptized at St. Olaf’s Lutheran Church in rural Odin, Minnesota and later confirmed at Trinity Lutheran Church in Mountain Lake, Minnesota.
Jean attended Country School north of Butterfield, Minnesota and graduated from Mountain Lake Public High School in 1973. She then attended college in Mankato to become a commercial secretary. After college, she worked as a secretary at the Co-Op in Mountain Lake. She then worked at St. James City Hall in St. James, Minnesota, for a few years. She also worked at the Hickory Inn in St. James, where she used her tip money to travel all over the world.
She was married to Mark Oeltjenbruns on February 8, 1992 in Mountain Lake. The couple made their home in Jackson. Jean was very giving of her time and talents to her family, friends, church community and anyone that needed it.
Jean was a member at Our Redeemer Luthern Church in Jackson, where she was very involved on numerous boards, as well as choir and the mission quilting group. She also helped around the church when repairs needed to be made, either organizing that they got done or doing it herself.
Jean loved to make quilts, and she made them for most everybody that she knew. She had a talent of putting together the perfect patterns and colors. Not only the people that she knew got quilts, but she also enjoyed making blue jean quilts for missions. Jean also loved to bake; she would make bars and monster cookies for many of her friends and family. Jean was a worldwide traveler, having taken trips to Hawaii, Norway, Australia, Japan, and China; just to name a few places.
Jean is survived by her husband of 23 years, Mark Oeltjenbruns of Jackson; her mother, Dorothy Syverson of Mountain Lake; her father-in-law, Albert Oeltjenbruns of Bingham Lake, Minnesota; her stepdaughter, Marcy (Scott) Berglund and step-granddaughters, Naomi Berglund and Kelly Berglund, all of Avoca, Minnesota; her two brothers, Joel (Deborah) Syverson and their children Tyler and Karly of Zimmerman, Minnesota and Lyle Syverson of Mountain Lake; her brothers-in-law, Luke (Robbie) Oeltjenbruns of Hutchinson, Minnesota, Amos Oeltjenbruns of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, Dan Oeltjenbruns of Hartford, South Dakota and Joel (Stacey) Oeltjenbruns of Brooklyn Park and a sister-in-law Ruth (Justin) Fisher of Hutchinson.
Jean was preceded in death by her father, Donald Syverson; her brother, Wayne Syverson and her mother-in-law, Marie Oeltjenbruns.
