Bernice Bernetta Brugman Lammers, 1902-1999

BRUGMAN, STUHR, BRAMMER, FORTMANN

Posted By: Sharon K Hesebeck (email)
Date: 1/25/2014 at 19:07:28

Bernice Bernetta (Brugman) Lammers
August 10, 1902
January 2, 1999

Bernice Bernetta (Brugman) Lammers, 96, died , Saturday, January 2, 1999 at Muscatine General Hospital.

Funeral services will held at 2 p.m. today at the Ralph J Wittich Riley Freers Funeral Home with the Rev. Edward Meyer of the Mount Zion Church officiating.

Casket Bearers; Brad Brammer, Todd Brammer, Nathan Brammer and Steve Fortmann

Honorary Casket Bearers; Julie Fortmann, Claudia Brammer, Kim Brammer, Jim Halstead, Charles Wegner, Marlin Schauland, Ken Kloppenburg and Don Nielsen

Burial will be at the Lone Tree Cemetery in Everly at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday.

Bernice Bernetta Brugman Lammers was born on August 10, 1902 in Everly to Emil and Dorothea(Dora) (Stuhr) Brugman. She attended school in Everly and graduated with the class of 1919. She attended Grinnell College in Grinnell and the State Teachers College in Cedar Falls which is now the University of Northern Iowa. She received her B.A. degree from Marycrest College in Davenport.

Bernice taught school in a rural school near Everly and in the public schools in Royal, Hartley and Muscatine. She had bee the second grade teacher at Jefferson Elementary School in Muscatine for 36 years before retiring in 1969

On August 21, 1930 she married Elmer Lammers. Following their marriage they lived on a farm southeast of Everly after their marriage.

Elmer passed away on January 29, 1938

Mrs. Lammers was a member of the Mount Zion Church, the Muscatine Area Retired Teachers Association and the Order of the Eastern Star in Sanborn.

She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband, Elmer.

Her surviving family includes, Maxine Brammer and her husband, Chuck of Grinnell, Brad Brammer and family, Todd Brammer and family, Nathan Brammer and family and Julie Fortmann and family, several cousins, numerous friends and students.

Daily Reporter, January 5, 1999

Interment in Lone Tree cemetery
 

Clay Obituaries maintained by Kris Meyer.
WebBBS 4.33 Genealogy Modification Package by WebJourneymen