July 26, 1935 Jan. 4, 2022
Darrel Brateng was born July 26, 1935, in Forest River, North Dakota. He passed away Jan. 4, 2022, at Napa Post-Acute, where he resided for the past 21 months. Darrel was the eighth child of nine.
He grew up on a farm and as a young man he worked on the farm at the Graft