WINONA, Minn. – Helen Marie (Luedtke) Braatz, 100, of Winona, who worked at EttaDell Nursing Home in Lewiston and then for 30 years at Camera Art, died at Benedictine-St. Anne nursing home. She was born on a farm in in Wilson Township and walked to a one-room schoolhouse. Although she loved school. she was unable to go beyond the eighth grade for ant of transportation. Later in life she earned an equivalency diploma. With her husband she farmed near Lewiston. She moved to town in 1959 and to Winona in 1988. She lived independently until she was 85. She was widely traveled coast to coast. She prided herself for dipping her toes in both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
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