Deborah Sue Praesel Brandt

January 28, 1972 - August 2, 2020

A funeral service for Deborah Brandt will be held at 10:00 am on Thursday, August 6, 2020 at Phillips & Luckey Funeral Home in Rockdale with burial in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery in Rockdale. There will be a visitation from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday at the funeral home. Deborah Sue Praesel Brandt, 48, of Brenham passed away on August 2, 2020 in College Station after a courageous battle with cancer. She was born on January 28, 1972 to John Ralph and Birdie (Ullrich) Praesel in Rockdale. She was baptized on March 19, 1972 with her uncle and aunt, Edward and Christine Buscha, as her sponsors and confirmed on August 25, 1987, both at Peace Lutheran Church in Rockdale. Debbie graduated from Rockdale High School in 1990. She attended Temple Junior College. She graduated from Mary Hardin Baylor University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing. On August 28, 1992, she married Shaun Allred at Peace Lutheran Church in Rockdale. From this marriage were born two sons, Clinton John Allred and Garrett Blaine Allred. On December 10, 2005, she married Ivan Dell Brandt in Brenham. Debbie loved helping others and always had a smile on her face. She was employed with the Department of Aging and Disabled in Brenham for seven years. She is preceded in death by her father, John Ralph Praesel; grandparents, C. Arthur, Jr. and Ida Wanda (Schramm) Praesel, and Jacob, Sr. and Tonie (Spies) Ullrich; three uncles, Fritz Finke, Arthur Gus Praesel, Sr., and Charles Ernest Praesel; one aunt, Mary Fleming; and two cousins, Lauren Buscha and Arthur Scott Praesel. Debbie is survived by her husband, Ivan Dell Brandt of Brenham; sons, Clinton John Allred and Garrett Blaine Allred, both of Brenham; mother and stepfather, Birdie and James E. Kristoff of Rockdale; sister and brother-in-law, Tammy L. and Charles Alford of Rockdale; mother-in-law, Joanna Stevens of Bacliff; brothers-in-law, David Brandt of San Angelo and Stan Brandt and wife Julianna of Jundai, Brazil; sisters-in-law, Charlotte Buscha and Brenda Lovell of Bacliff, and Lena Duncan and Belinda Gutierrez of Wichita, KS; nieces, Johna Cheyenne and Jaclyn Sierra Alford of Rockdale; aunts and uncles, Lynwood Ullrich, Aliene Finke, Katherine and Vernon Wellmann, Christine and Edward Buscha, Jacob, Jr. and June Ullrich, Tonetta and James Schlemmer, Ernest and Martha Ullrich, Virginia Praesel, Mary Ann Praesel, and Evelyn Krueger; and many cousins and friends. Serving as pallbearers are Clinton Allred, Garrett Allred, Zane Brandt, Dalton Brandt, Zachary Buscha, Justin Praesel, Clayton Praesel, and Wyatt Wellmann. Memorials may be made to Peace Lutheran Church, P.O. Box 308, Rockdale, Texas 76567 or to Animal Friends of Washington County, 3901 Texas Highway 36 North, Brenham, Texas 77833.