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GILBERT FRANCIS BRUGMAN OBITUARY
Reprinted with Permission
© Shawnee News Star
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GILBERT FRANCIS BRUGMAN
1917 - 2007


Meeker resident Gilbert "Ted" Francis Brugman passed away peacefully at home on April 29, 2007.
He was born May 11, 1917, in Lone Tree, Iowa, to John and Bernadine TeVoert Brugman.
He was the youngest of ten children. Gilbert went to school in Lone Tree.
On September 9, 1946, he married Anna Marie Shetler at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Muscatine, Iowa.
Gilbert spent his early years farming in Muscatine then moved to Shirland, Illinois, to continue his farming profession. He then was employed by Borg-Warner Corp., Rockford, Illinois at which time he moved his family to Roscoe, Ill. He retired from Borg-Warner Corp in 1969.
Gilbert and Anna moved from Roscoe to Meeker in 1997 to be close to their daughter. For seventeen years Gilbert and Anna have spent their winter months in Brownsville, Texas, at Winterhaven Resort. Gilbert belonged to Free Riders Motorcycle Club, Winnebago Farm Bureau, Roscoe Snowmobile Club, and was a member of St. Benedict's Catholic Church in Shawnee.
In 2004 he developed early stages of Alzheimer disease.
Gilbert was preceded in death by his parents and eight brothers and sisters.
He is survived by his wife, Anna, of the home; two sons, James Brugman of Rockford, Illinois; Daniel Brugman and wife, Gail, of Roscoe, Illinois; daughter, JoAnn Craig of Meeker; grandchildren, Jim, Patrick, Jolene, Jason, and Joseph Brugman all of Illinois and Jodi Craig of Meeker; twelve great grandchildren from Illinois and Wisconsin.
Services will be noon today at St. Benedict's Catholic Church with burial to follow at Calvary Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Meeker Friends of the Library or St. Benedict's Catholic Church.


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