Dorotha Bartman

March 13, 1915 - September 30, 2014

Marion, Iowa Memorial Service: , at Visitation: 3-7 PM October 03, 2014 at Fremont Funeral Chapel Funeral Service: 10:30 AM October 04, 2014 at Fremont United Methodist Church Interment: Memorial Lawn Cemetery Dorotha Faye Bartman, 99, of Marion and formerly of Fremont, died Tuesday, September 30, 2014 at Village Ridge Assisted Living, Marion, Iowa, 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, Illinois 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 prior to moving to Cedar Rapids to be closer to family. Funeral services will be held Saturday, October 4, 2014 at 10:30 A.M. at the Fremont United Methodist Church with Reverend Jim Dotson officiating. Visitation will be Friday, October 3, 2014 in 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, step-son Gordon Bartman, daughter-in-law Connie Miller, step-daughter-in-law Marge (Wayne) Bartman, grandson, Curt Miller, granddaughter, Shelly Miller, and two step-granddaughters Kathy and Diane Bartman. Survivors include Max (special friend Lorene) Miller, son, of Dallas, Texas, Glen (Linda) Miller, son, of Cedar Rapids, Barb Waterhouse, daughter-in-law, of Hiawatha, Wayne Bartman, stepson, of Kendallville, Indiana, Mary Lou McConnell, step-daughter-in -law, of Dyer, Indiana, Bob Allen, brother-in-law, of Ottumwa, six grandchildren, 6 great-grandsons, 5 great-granddaughters, 7 step-grandchildren, 11 step-great-grandchildren, and 1 great-great-granddaughter. Dorotha was a member of the Fremont United Methodist Church and 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.