Bergman, Dorothy Maxine Hallman (1921-2001)

BERGMAN, HALLMAN, MANROSS, WILHELM, FRETTE

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 2/2/2022 at 11:29:44

Daily Freeman Journal
Webster City, Iowa
Wednesday, November 7, 2001

Dorothy Maxine Bergman, 80, Stratford, died Monday, Nov. 5, 2001 at the Stratford Nursing and Rehab Center. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 11 a.m. at the Stratford Lutheran Church, Rev. Joseph Lampert will officiate. Burial will be at the Oakwood Cemetery in Stratford. Visitation will also be Thursday from 9:30 a.m. until the time of services at the church. Carson Funeral home in Dayton is in charge of the arrangements.

Dorothy Maxine Bergman was born on August 6, 1921 in Littleton, Iowa, the daughter of Glenn and Grace (Manross) Hallman. She attended schools in Stratford. Dorothy was united in marriage to Lester C. Bergman on August 9, 1939 at the Lutheran Church Parsonage in Webster City. Jim and Edna Lundquist stood up with the couple. Dorothy and Lester farmed in the Stratford area until Lester's retirement in 1977. Dorothy worked as a nurse's aide at the Hamilton County Hospital and cooked at the Pioneer Restaurant in Stratford. She moved to the Stratford Nursing and Rehab Center in September of this year.

She was a member of the Stratford Lutheran Church. Her hobbies included camping, crocheting and playing solitaire. Dorothy and Lester also enjoyed traveling, spending many of their winters in Arizona.

She is survived by a granddaughter, Christine and her husband Jeff Wilhelm of Woodburn; three grandsons, Timothy and his wife Deborah Bergman of Stratford, Daniel Bergman and girlfriend Brenda Geerdes, Stratford, and Rodney Bergman of Rockwell City; six great-grandchildren, one great-great-grandson. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband Lester Bergman in March of 2001, two sons, Ronald Bergman in 1985 and Richard Bergman in 1969; a daughter-in-law, Lois Bergman in March of 2000; and a grandson, Rickie Frette in 1979.

Memorials may be left to the family's discretion.