Inglis, Dorothy 'Dodie' Rohwedder Barnett

Dorothy “Dodie” Rohwedder Barnett Inglis, 92, of Cedar Rapids, died at The Meth-Wick Community on Sept. 6, 2012. Memorial service will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 21, at St. Paul's United Methodist Church Chapel. The Rev. Lloyd Brockmeyer will officiate. Inurnment will be at the Wyoming, Iowa Cemetery. Cedar Memorial Park Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Dorothy was born Dec. 31, 1919, in Wyoming, Iowa, the daughter of Albert and Emma Levsen Rohwedder. She graduated from Wyoming High School in 1937 and from the University of Iowa in the School of Business in 1941. After working as a secretary in Iowa City and then in the Los Angeles area, she returned to Cedar Rapids, and took graduate hours in education.

She then taught in Keithsburg, Ill. There she met and married C.E. “Barney” Barnett. Their son, James R. “Jim,” was born April 22, 1947. After Barney's death in 1959, she moved back to Iowa and taught fourth grade in Marion, Iowa, for 20 years.

Since her retirement, she remained active with church activities, bridge clubs and PEO.

Forty years a widow, she married Alex Inglis of Wyoming, Iowa. He died Nov. 1, 2004. Her extended families (Barnett and Inglis) were large in number, so family connections were always a source of pride and joy to her. She and her late cousin, Berwyn Glaze, amassed a genealogy of the Levsen family, which led to their making two trips to Germany to visit relatives on the small island of Pellworm in the North Sea and on the mainland. Dorothy took pride in being able to speak German while there. In recent years she distributed the Rohwedder Genealogy as well.

Survivors include daughter-in-law, D'Arcy Barnett; and granddaughter, Katherine Barnett; stepsons and stepdaughters, Bruce Barnett (Jean), Barrington, Ill., Barbara Barnett Palmer Thomas, Senath, Mo., Esther Inglis Taylor (Lon), Cedar Rapids, Mary Inglis Zahradnik (Vern), Central City, and Mike Inglis (Cindy), Wyoming, Iowa; and many step grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her son, Jim; her husbands, C.E. Barnett and Alex Inglis; her parents; and her brother, Robert “Bob” Rohwedder.

Memorial donations may be given to St. Paul's United Methodist Church.

Please leave a message or tribute to Dorothy's family on the Web page, www.cedarmemorial.com under obituaries.

Published Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012 in The Gazette