Ella Marie Brahler & George R. Brahler, D.D.S

Ella Marie Brahler (98) passed away on Friday, May 24, 2019 at the home of her daughter Dr. C.Jayne Brahler, Yellow Springs, Ohio.

Ella was born April 17, 1921 in St Joseph Missouri, the daughter of Charles Krueger Bidding and Blanch (Keller) Bidding. She grew up in St Joe, schooled at Musser, Bliss and graduated from Central High School (1938). She earned a Central C for sports and belonged to the Girls Athletic Association. She had been an Art Editor along the way; art was her favorite subject and a continued adult pastime. She was active in the Wyatt Park Christian Church and her Sunday school teacher, Madalyn Stanton Brahler, was one of her introductions to George Robert Brahler. Following a later courtship they married in 1942 at Wyatt Park Christian in St. Jo. Mo.

Commitments of military service to country and education completed Dr. George and Ella, visited communities around the area (Ks and Mo) and they selected Lawrence, Kansas as their family’s home. Dr. Brahler set up his dental practice. Ella enjoyed being a homemaker for their family. Outside the home she was a scout troop leader, Sunday school teacher, homeroom mother at Hillcrest School, where she participated in all activities that involved her children. She volunteered with the dental auxiliary wives and shared dental hygiene lessons, via puppet shows, in elementary classrooms.

Ella enjoyed being part of the planning and implementing of family events for her children and grandchildren. She loved a new recipe and was meticulous with cooking prep. She enjoyed decorating a new home (or two). She tended to her flowers, loved “hand work” embroidering as a child, needlepoint, crocheting and making beautiful quilts. She liked to tole paint and in general was “artsy”. She liked neighborhood dinner parties, shopping, sunshine and her golf group. Doc and Ella always supported their children’s individual interests.

Survived by two daughters, Jacque Shipstead (Sam) Lawrence, Kansas; Jayne Brahler (Kerry Powell) Yellow Springs, Ohio; Two sons, Jeff Brahler (Bonnie) Medford, Oregon; John Brahler (Kelli) Dallas, Texas; Four grandchildren, Hilarie Jayne Shipstead Splichal (Joe), Stephanie Marie Shipstead Moore (Jason); George Robert Brahler II and Grace Brahler; Four Great-grandchildren: Jayne Marie, Sam, Ella Marie and Phoebe May; her sister-in-law Francis Parisoff Bidding, cousins Gene Seabolt and Gene McClaren.

Ella was preceded in death by her husband George Brahler in 2009 as well as her parents Charles and Blanch Bidding and her brother Major Jack Warren Bidding. She had many loved ones in St Joe to include a favorite Aunt Helen Bidding Hagar and Cousin Larry Hager. The Brahler’s have been laid to rest at Memorial Park (Military) Cemetery in Lawrence, Ks.

Suggested Memorial to Douglas County Dental Society in care of Warren McElwain, 120 W. 13th Street, Lawrence, KS 66044.

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GEORGE R. BRAHLER, D.D.S.

Dr. Brahler, 89, died Wednesday, January 14, 2009, in Yellow Springs, Ohio. He was born in St. Joseph, Missouri on October 1, 1919, the son of Benjamin C. Brahler and Earle Brown Brahler.
He was inducted into The United States Army October 16, 1942. He served in the 10th Armored Division during World War II. He was ambushed in the Battle of the Bulge and assisted and witnessed the liberation of Dachau prisoner of war camp. When the war ended he was assigned to the 3rd Army baseball team as a pitcher and extended his stay of duty for 6 months. Later, in Lawrence he pitched softball for Gallagher’s fast pitch team as well as the Hornets of Topeka. Prior to going to Europe, as a member of the 10th Armored Division Band in Augusta, Georgia, he played the trombone during the “Army Hour” on several national radio programs. He later played professionally in a studio band at KFEQ and for the Dutch Young Orchestra in St. Joseph Missouri. Brahler was personally invited by Tommy Dorsey to audition for the Tommy Dorsey Band in California.
He graduated from St. Joseph Junior College and then went on to graduate from the University Missouri-Kansas City Dental School in 1951, where he was a member of Delta Sigma Delta Fraternity. He was a first Lieutenant in the Dental Division Detachment at Ft Riley, Ks. during the Korean War.
In 1953 Dr. Brahler moved, with his young family to Lawrence and practiced dentistry until he retired in 2003. His first office was above the Royal College Shoe Shop on Mass. St. For years following his office was at 944 Kentucky St. In addition to his dental practice, he invented the first disposable prophy angle that he marketed throughout the country. The prophy angle eliminated the chance for transmission of a variety of infectious diseases. His product was first on the market to be approved by the Clinical Research Associates, a noted dental journal.

He was a member of the Douglas County Dental Society, Kansas State Dental Society, and had been on the Board of Trustees for Plymouth Congregational Church. He had served as a school dentist. He’d been an Alvamar Stock holder since its inception in 1967. He enjoyed a round of golf and in his early years was an avid handball player.

He married Ella Marie Bidding on April 13, 1942 at the Wyatt Park Christian Church in St. Joseph Missouri. She survives of the home. Other survivors include two daughters, Jacque Shipstead and her husband Sam, Lawrence, and Dr. C. Jayne Brahler, Yellow Springs, Ohio; two sons, Jeff Brahler and wife Bonnie, Lawrence, and John Brahler and wife Kelli, Lawrence; four grandchildren, Hilarie Shipstead Splichal and husband Joe, Highlands Ranch, Colorado, Stephanie Shipstead Moore and husband Jason, San Diego, California, George Robert Brahler II and Grace Brahler of Lawrence; four great-grandchildren Jayne Marie and Samuel Louis Splichal, Highlands Ranch, Colorado; Ella Marie and Phoebe May Moore, San Diego, California.

The family suggests memorials to the Douglas County Dental Society, sent in care of Warren McElwain Mortuary.