Doris Brickley

DORIS BRICKLEY

Anamosa

Doris Brickley, 93, died Tuesday, July 19, 2016, at Jones Regional Medical Center following a brief illness. Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Friday, July 22, at the United Methodist Church, Anamosa. Interment: Riverside Cemetery. The Rev. Marty Schuhmacher will officiate at the services. Goettsch Funeral Home, Anamosa.

Thoughts, memories and condolences may be left at www.goettschonline.com.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to Above and Beyond Home Health Care, Monticello.

Surviving are her grandchildren, Jill (Brad) Heims, Monticello, and Jeff (Beth) Brickley, Livingston, Ky.; six great-grandchildren, Baylie, Jake, Jarod and Brandie Heims, Sam and Caroline Brickley; her sister, Betty (Richard) Jedlicka, Tipton; and in-laws, Edith Lyons, Cedar Rapids, Delores Larson, Davenport, and Bud Brickley and Rosalee Shada, both of Anamosa.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Lloyd, in 2009; her son, Eric, in 2011; and siblings, Laverne and Lawrence Larson and Maxine Preston.

Doris Irene Larson was born March 8, 1923, in Martelle, Iowa, the daughter of Wilmer and Beulah Stahl Larson. Doris graduated in 1940 from Martelle High School, where she was a forward on the girls basketball team.

She worked at the Iowan Hotel in Anamosa and the Reliance shirt factory after high school. With the outbreak of World War II, Doris and her sister, Maxine, moved to California and worked as Rosie the Riveters building airplanes. On March 4, 1944, Doris Larson and Lloyd Brickley were united in marriage at the Methodist Church in Martelle. The couple farmed near Anamosa and operated Brickley Livestock buying station. Doris also was bookkeeper at the Anamosa and Mechanicsville sale barns.

She was a lifelong member of the Methodist Church and UMW. She bowled in the women's leagues and also played bridge.