Charles W. Bruggemeyer

      Charles W. Bruggemeyer, 77, of 2802 Kentucky Ave., Mt. Pleasant, died at 10:02 p.m. on Wednesday, January 31, 2001 at University of Iowa Hospitals, Iowa City.

      Visitation will be held from noon to 8 p.m. on Sunday, February 4, 2001 at Weir Funeral Home, Mt. Pleasant where the family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m.

      Funeral Mass will be held at 10 a.m. on Monday, February 5, 2001 at St. Alphonsus Catholic Church, Mt. Pleasant with Father Nick Adam officiating.

      Interment will be held in St. Alphonsus Cemetery.

      A memorial has been established to Crossroads Hospice of Southeast Iowa.

      Mr. Bruggemeyer was born on June 18, 1923 at Lincoln, Ill., to William T. and Jennie F. McWilliams Bruggemeyer. On October 20, 1943, at Kahoka, Missouri, he married A. Arlene Mefferd who survives.

      He graduated from Mt. Pleasant High School in 1942. He farmed southeast of Mt. Pleasant all his life and owned and operated Bruggemeyer Construction Co. from 1958 to present.

      He was baptized in St. Alphonsus Catholic Church, Mt. Pleasant.

      He is survived by his wife of rural Mt. Pleasant; one son - Charles D. ?Dan? and Roberta ?Bobbi? Bruggemeyer of rural Mt. Pleasant; two daughters - Jenny and Gene Glover of Salem, Iowa and M. Janet Bruggemeyer of rural Mt. Pleasant; nine grandchildren - Robin Mathews of Salem, Iowa, Kris Glover of rural Mt. Pleasant, Andrea Sartain of Ft. Drumm, N.Y., Robert Bruggemeyer of rural Mt. Pleasant, Shannon Shull of Mt. Pleasant, Stacie Lance of Mt. Pleasant, Ravan Bruggemeyer of Stockport, Iowa, Velvet Bruggemeyer of rural Mt. Pleasant, and Joey Bruggemeyer of rural Mt. Pleasant; six great-grandsons; 11 great-granddaughters; and one sister - Mary Jane Leyden of Mt. Pleasant.

      He was preceded in death by one son ? William Vern Bruggemeyer and one brother ? Ralph T. Bruggemeyer.