Coralville, Iowa Dorothy Brugman, 87, passed away Sunday December 22, 2013 at the Lantern Park Care Center in Coralville, Iowa Funeral mass will be held 10 A.M. Friday December 27, 2013 at St. Thomas More Catholic Church in Coralville with Rev. Walter Helms officiating. Visitation will be held 4 to 7 P.M. Thursday at the Henderson-Barker Funeral Home in West Liberty where a rosary will be recited at 7 P.M. Burial will be in the St. Mary’s Cemetery, Nichols, Iowa. Memorials may be made to Mercy Hospital Foundation or a charity of your choice. Online condolences may be made to the family at www.hendersonbarkerfuneralhome.com. Dorothy Marie Kessler Brugman was born June 8, 1926 in a country home near Cosgrove, Iowa the daughter of Leo Thomas and Mary Cecillia Walsh. She was a graduate of Lone Tree High School in 1945 and from Mercy School of Nursing in 1948. On August 29, 1949 she was married to Eugene Henry Brugman at Saint Mary’s Church in Iowa City, Iowa. The couple farmed near Nichols and raised their three children there. They moved to Iowa City in 1992. In their final retirement years Gene and Dorothy resided at Windmill Pointe, Coralville. She is a member of St. Thomas More Catholic Church in Coralville. Dorothy enjoyed doing genealogy. She made and kept picture albums of the family and of local community clippings over the years. Her family enjoyed her cooking, particularly her pies. Survivors include her son Robert Brugman of North Liberty, Iowa and two daughters Bonnie (Steve) Steinhoff of Alameda, CA, and Barbara (Alan) Swenson of Manassas, Virginia. Also surviving are four grandchildren, Stacen (Lisa) Steinhoff, Sara Steinhoff, Brian Swenson and Eric Swenson. She was preceded in death by her husband, brother Laurence Kessler and his wife Leona and her identical twin Virginia Lamansky and her husband Dean.