Alice Rita McCall Bridgeman 1920-2010

BRIDGEMAN MCCALL SMITH PROKOP

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 11/9/2010 at 00:06:03

Sioux City Journal
4 May 2010

UTE, Iowa -- Alice McCall Bridgeman, 90, of Ute died Saturday, May 1, 2010, at Burgess Health Center in Onawa, Iowa.

Services will be 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Boniface Catholic Church in Charter Oak, Iowa, with the Rev. Andrew Boa-Vo officiating. Burial will follow in St. Clair Cemetery. Visitation will be after 3 p.m. today, with a vigil wake service at 7 p.m., at the Armstrong Funeral Home in Mapleton, Iowa. Visitation will resume 9 a.m. until service time Wednesday at the church.

Alice Rita McCall Bridgeman was born March 31, 1920, at Danbury, Iowa, the daughter of Nick and Kate (Smith) Prokop. She attended school at St. Mary's Catholic School in Danbury for eight years.

On Jan. 19, 1943, Alice married Norbert A. McCall in Danbury. Immediately after their marriage, Norbert was inducted into the U.S. Army. After his discharge in 1945, they started farming, living in the Mapleton, Danbury, and Anthon, Iowa, area, moving to Ute in 1959. Norbert passed away on Nov. 22, 1976.

Alice married Donald Bridgeman on June 13, 1981, and continued to live in rural Ute.

She was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Ute.

Alice liked to paint, make quilts, garden her flowers, and work in her yard. She also enjoyed caring for the livestock, cooking, canning, baking bread, and the special apple pies she baked for her grandchildren. Decorating her home with Christmas lights at the holidays brought her pleasure as well. She was a physically active person until just recently, having walked lots of bean fields and taking long walks. She cleaned houses, two special ones being the Rev. Smith in Onawa and the Rev. Walding in Charter Oak. She enjoyed the many birthday parties she shared with family and friends.

Survivors left to cherish the memory of Alice include her husband, Donald; one daughter, Arlene McCall of Dallas, Texas; two sons and their wives, Norman and Candy McCall of Enid, Okla., and Kenneth and Phyllis McCall of Oklahoma City, Okla.; six grandchildren, Joshua McCall and his wife, Adi, Joel McCall, Heather Nicole Crockett, Amber Christine McCall, Malissa Payne, and Dustin Narkaus and his wife, Jessica; five great-grandchildren, Brenden and Alek McCall and Sheryl, Kristen, and Ashley Narkaus; and one brother, Clair Prokop of Mapleton, Iowa.

Along with her first husband, Alice was also preceded in death by her parents; three brothers, Bernard, Cecil, and John Prokop; and two sisters, Dorothy McGrain and Leonella "Tootie" Sorensen.

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