Robert "Bob" Brand, 83 passed away peacefully at Essentia St. Mary's Medical Center in Duluth on Saturday, December 17, 2022.  Bob was born in Duluth to Alvin and Mary Brand.

He attended the Stowe School, Morgan Park High School, and completed his education through the Smith Hughes Program at Denfeld graduating as a machinist.  His work history includes Northern Ordinance of Minneapolis, Lidgerwood of Superior, several years of general construction, Track and Trail snowmobile maintenance, US Steel Plant in Gary, and he retired from the Wisconsin Department of Grain Regulation as a weigher.  Bob served in the National Air Guard for six years in Duluth as a machinist.

He loaded his own shells for shooting skeet and won trophies and patches.  Bob was also an avid hunter, dragging home some big bucks and bagging pheasants and partridge.  He loved fishing Lake Superior and the Brule River.  Bob enjoyed ice fishing in the winter months.  He achieved several bowling trophies and a "300" patch.

Bob had a real passion for gardening and maintained a "backyard" greenhouse for several years.  He grew a good variety of annual flowers to decorate his home and yard.  The southern windows of his garage were ornate in the chill of winter with the colorful geraniums he wintered over the spring cuttings.

Bob loved to pick berries, especially blueberries, and he learned the art of making wine out of some of those berries.  He also made chokecherry, strawberry, onion, beet, rhubarb, tart cherry, apple, grape, tomato, and several combinations of fruit wines.  He gladly donated cases of wine for charitable fundraisers.

Bob was preceded in death by his son, Walter "Wally" Brand; parents, Alvin, and Mary Brand; brother, David, and Alvin Brand.

He is survived by his wife of 59 years, Mary (Reuille) Brand; daughter, Michele (Brian) Wick; grandsons, Eric, and Brady Wick; granddaughter, Codie Brand-Tessier; brother, Michael (Gwen) Brand; sisters, Gloria (Ron) Sandie and Marilyn (Tom) Novotny and a large extended family.

Visitation will be held Friday, December 30, 2022, from 10:00 am until the 11:00 am Mass of Christian Burial in St. Williams Catholic Church with Rev. Fr. Andrew Ricci officiating.  A Celebration of Life will continue at 12:30 in the Superior Town Hall, where a luncheon will be served.

Burial be in Summit Cemetery in the spring of 2023.