Robert E. Brouillard

Robert E. Brouillard, 79, of Lancaster, died Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008, at the Lancaster Care Center, surrounded by his family after a brief battle with cancer.

Services were at 11 a.m. Monday, Aug. 18, at the Lancaster Care Center, with the Rev. William Seipp officiating. Burial was in Van Buren Cemetery, Potosi. Friends called after 9 a.m. Monday at the care center.

He was born on March 27, 1929, in Potosi, son of Bert and Edna (Higgins) Brouillard. He married Carol Weber on May 28, 1949, in the Little Brown Church in Nashua, Iowa.

The Brouillard's farmed for a brief time in Potosi on the family farm, they then moved to Cassville where he worked for 42 years at Okey's Market.

Surviving are his wife, Carol; his three sons, Jim, of Verona, Dennis (Dawn), of Elroy, and Wayne (Chris), of Alma; two daughters, Sandi (Ron) Kelley and Lorraine (Joe) Mergen, both of Cassville; a sister, Ethel, of Rockford, Ill.; 14 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.