Died 30 June 2007

Burial in Memorial Park Cemetery, Columbia, Missouri

Published in Pilot Tribune on 3 July 2007

Dorothy M. Brooks, 90, of Columbia, Mo., died Saturday, June 30, 2007, at Columbia Manor Care Center.

Services will be 11 a.m. Tuesday, July 3, at Calvary Baptist Church in Columbia, Mo., with interment at Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Tuesday at the church.

Dorothy Marie Swingholm was born March 12, 1917, in Wolbach to John Andrew and Christine (Knudsen) Swingholm.

She married Harold E. Brooks in Blair on Aug. 1, 1936.

Mrs. Brooks worked at Shelter Insurance Company for 15 years until her retirement in 1979. She was also a homemaker and a devoted member of Calvary Baptist Church.

She is survived by two sons and a daughter-in-law, J. Michael Brooks and Steven and Rebecca Brooks, all of Columbia; daughter and son-in-law, Shirley and David Ranum of Macon, Mo., two grandchildren; a brother, John Swingholm of Blair; five sisters, Kathryn Bauer and Darlene Gardner, both of Blair, Ruby Clements of Dana Point, Calif., Patsy Blinn of Sun City West, Ariz., and Peggy Ray of Norfolk; many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Harold, in 1995; a brother, Richard Swingholm; two sisters, Mary Ann Swingholm and Lola Hamke; and one grandchild, Richard Noel.

Memorials are suggested to Calvary Baptist Church in Columbia.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~

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