Lang, Dorothy Charlotte Beem

Dorothy Charlotte Beem Lang, 80, passed away Wednesday, August 3, 2011. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday, August 7, at Kloster Funeral Home, Brooklyn. Funeral services will be held at at 10:30 a.m. Monday at the Madison Church of Christ, rural Brooklyn, 3503 140th St. with Dennis Smith officiating. Burial will be at Brooklyn Memorial Cemetery. A luncheon will follow at the Michael J. Manatt Community Center in downtown Brooklyn.

Dorothy was born July 4, 1931, in Los Angeles, Calif., to Ray and Mildred Beem. At one year of age she went to live with her grandparents, Minnie and Walter Uhl in Brooklyn, Iowa. They raised her to adulthood and she graduated from Brooklyn High School in 1948.

On June 1, 1948, she was united in marriage to Maynard Lang. He survives as do four children born to that marriage, John (friend Catherine Lamb), twins, Craig (Mary) and Christine Turpin (Tom), and Eric (Nicole Schlinger); eight grandchildren, Suzanne Turpin Upton (Ian), Sarah Lang, Stephen Turpin, Jessica Lang Bloomberg (Justin), Gavin Lang, Chase Lang (Sylvona), Dane Lang and Cade Lang; and five great-grandchildren, Berkeley, Griffin and Parker Upton and Carsynn and Cael Lang.

She was preceded in death by her parents; a brother, Walter Beem; and a daughter-in-law, Nancy Lang.

Dorothy was a long time 4-H leader, volunteer at Brookhaven Nursing Home (now Brooklyn Community Estates) and Brooklyn Activity Center. She was a member of the Madison Church of Christ and a full participant in their many activities. She always supported her children in all their school, 4-H and church activities and she was a full partner in the family dairy operation, keeping all the books and doing payroll until just a few years ago.

Dorothy's special request was that the only flowers at her time of passing be flowers from one's garden or wildflowers from along the Iowa roadside.

Memorial donations may be made to the Madison Church of Christ, Brooklyn Activity Center or Brooklyn Community Estate.

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