Pearl J. Brunstedt, 101, of Merrill, passed away on Wednesday, September 5, 2018 at the Plymouth Manor Care Center in Le Mars. Funeral services will take place at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, September 10, 2018 at St. John Lutheran Church in Merrill. Pastor Bert Burwell will officiate. Burial will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery in Sioux City, Iowa. Visitation will begin at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, September 9, 2018 at the Mauer – Johnson Funeral Home in Le Mars. The family will be present from 5-7 p.m. with a prayer service at 7:00 p.m. There will also be one hour of visitation at the church prior to the funeral service on Monday. .

Pearl Johanna Harms was born on June 25, 1917 in Le Mars, Iowa, one of eleven children born to Edo A. and Nettie M. (Schultz) Harms. She was baptized and confirmed at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Le Mars. Pearl also attended school in Le Mars.

Pearl married C.W. “Cab” Brunstedt on September 21, 1938 at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Le Mars. They made their home in Merrill, Iowa where they raised their daughter, Sally. Along with homemaking, Pearl worked at Sioux City Dress Pork.

She was a lifelong resident of Plymouth County and member of St. John’s Lutheran Church in Le Mars and Merrill.

She will be dearly missed by her grandchildren, Brad Kass of Le Mars, Iowa, Jodi (Kass) Crescibene of Loveland, Colorado, and Rick Kass and his wife, Melanie of Loveland, Colorado; seven great-grandchildren, Matthew (and his wife, Kristin) and Kory Kass, Brittany and Dylan Crescibene, Caiden and Charlee Kass; four great-great-grandchildren, Mason, Blake, Presley and Cohen Kass; and close family friends, Marlene and Curt Vanderloo of Merrill, Iowa.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, C.W. Brunstedt; and her daughter, Sally Kass; a great-grandson, Christopher Kass; and her siblings.