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Dorotha Bartman
DOROTHA BARTMAN
Marion
Dorotha Faye Bartman, 99, of Marion, formerly of Fremont, died Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014, at Village Ridge Assisted Living, Marion, from natural causes.
She was born Saturday, March 13, 1915, to Henry and Fern (Jacobs) Knuth in Wapello County near Ottumwa, Iowa. She married Louie D. Miller on May 9, 1935. They farmed and raised three sons, Don, Max and Glen. Louie died in 1961 and Dorotha moved to Ottumwa to attend Iowa Success Business College. She married Reiner Bartman in 1963 and moved to Lansing, Ill., where she worked with her husband in his insurance office. In 1980, they moved back to Fremont, Iowa. Reiner died in 1987. In 1993, Dorotha married David Johnson, and after his death in 2007, she lived in Fremont for a number of years before moving to Cedar Rapids to be closer to family.
Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 4, at the Fremont United Methodist Church, with the Rev. Jim Dotson officiating. Visitation will be Friday, Oct. 3, at the Fremont Funeral Chapel beginning at 3 p.m., with the family present from 5 to 7 p.m.
The family requests memorials be directed to the Fremont United Methodist Church.
Dorotha was preceded in death by her parents; her three husbands; a son, Don Miller; two sisters, Luella Hutchings and Betty Allen; stepson, Gordon Bartman; daughter-in-law, Connie Miller; stepdaughter-in-law, Marge (Wayne) Bartman; grandson, Curt Miller; grand-daughter, Shelly Miller; and two stepgrand-daughters, Kathy and Diane Bartman.
Survivors include son, Max (special friend Lorene) Miller of Dallas, Texas; son, Glen (Linda) Miller of Cedar Rapids; daughter-in-law, Barb Waterhouse of Hiawatha; stepson, Wayne Bartman of Kendallville, Ind.; stepdaughter-in-law, Mary Lou McConnell of Dyer, Ind.; brother-in-law, Bob Allen of Ottumwa; six grandchildren; six great-grandsons; five great-granddaughters; seven stepgrandchildren; 11 stepgreat-grandchildren; and a great-great-granddaughter.
Dorotha was a member of the Fremont United Methodist Church. She considered herself a housewife and seamstress, but she had many interests: gardening, crossword puzzles, playing cards and making clown dolls. She also made and gave away 500 pocket crosses. Most of all, she lived her faith by loving others.
She will be greatly missed.
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