The heavenly Angels appeared on June 20th, 2025 to take Mildred M. Brautigam to her eternal home to be forever with Jesus her savior, her husband Robert and her recently departed sons Gary and Denny.

Mildred was born on July 3rd, 1929, in Big Springs, Mo. she grew up in the Rhinland, Big Springs and Americus communities. She was the daughter of Benjamin Karl and Mary (nee Gentry) Elfline. She attended and later graduated from Hermann High School in 1948. Mildred married Robert G. Brautigam at Swiss, Missouri on November 26th, 1949.

Mildred is survived by one son Terry Brautigam of New Haven, Mo, by two sisters-in-law, Loretta Elfline of Hermann and Juanita Elfline of Summersville, by one grandson Andrew Brautigam of Comstock Park, MI and three step grandchildren, Sara Jesser and husband Rick of Comstock Park, MI; Lynn Schleeter and husband Shaun of Harrisburg, MO; and Jason Ewald of Fulton, Mo. She is also survived by other nieces and nephews, cousins and friends.

She is preceded by her parents, her husband Robert, by two sons Gary and Denny, and by four brothers Milferd, Marvin, Milburn and Melvin Elfline.

Visitation for Mildred will be Tuesday, June 24th from 5:00 to 7:30 p.m. at the Toedtmann & Grosse Funeral Home, New Haven, MO. Funeral services will be Wednesday the 25th at 10:00 a.m. at the funeral home. Interment will be at the Swiss Evangelical Reformed Cemetery, Swiss, Mo.

The family requests memorials be made to the cemetery or Heartland Hospice.