STILLWATER, Minn. - Our father, grandfather and husband Douglas Martin Bergmann, son of Hilda (Hopkins) and Edwin Bergmann, died Monday, Jan. 30, 2012. Born in Minneapolis, Minn., April 28, 1931, Doug, the youngest of three children, attended Minneapolis schools, St. Cloud Teachers College and was a veteran serving on the USS GWIN (DM-33) 1951,1952. He managed offices for Public Finance Minn., Iowa and Ill.. and completed his career as executive vice president of the Galesburg Credit Bureau and Collection Agency.
His political and civic leadership included president of the Knox County Young Republican's Club, commissioner of the Knox County Board and the Sheriff's committee, township supervisor, district chairman with the Boy Scouts of America, president of the Associated Credit Bureaus of Illinois and president of the Galesburg Kiwanis Club. He was an active member of Galesburg Alpha Masonic Lodge No. 155 and Stillwater's St. Johns Lodge No. 1, attaining the 32nd Degree of the Scottish Rite.
On his retirement in 1995, Doug moved to Stillwater, Minn., so he and his wife Connie could live near their children.
Hunting and fishing were his lifelong passions. With his dog Goldie as his companion, he spent many weekends with close friends and business colleagues, sons and finally granddaughters hunting quail and pheasant and fishing for trout, bass, crappie and walleye. Not to be slowed down, he recently went hunting with Scott using a 4x4 to get to the birds. As a garnish to the wild game, Doug always grew tomatoes and green beans in his gardens.
In the 1970s, he earned his private pilots license, flew Cessna airplanes and hung around the Galesburg Airport and the Stearman Fly-In.
Doug was active in his Christian faith, singing in church choirs from the 1940s through 1990s, teaching Sunday school and serving on the Church Council of Trinity Lutheran Church, Galesburg Ill.
Doug was preceded in death by his older siblings, William Begin and Georgiana Begin Johnson, and his beloved daughter, Tracey (Bergmann) Hill. He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Constance Louis (Neseth) Bergmann, and by the families of his children, (son) Scott and Agma Bergmann of S. St. Paul, (son-in-Law) Steve Hill of Apple Valley and (son) Curt and Susan Bergmann of St. Paul; granddaughters Genevieve (Bergmann) Brau and husband Christopher Brau, Angela (Bergmann) Kassube and husband Anthony Kassube, Kirsten Hill, Siri Hill, Rebecca Bergmann and Elizabeth Bergmann; and great-grandchildren Eva Hill, Andrew Martin Kassube and Alexander Douglas Brau.
Visitation will be 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012, at Bradshaw Funeral Home in Stillwater, Minn. Funeral will be at noon Monday, Feb. 6, 2012, at St. Andrews Lutheran Church in Mahtomedi. Memorials may be sent to the organ fund at St. Andrews Lutheran Church, Minnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance, or Goodwill Easter Seals MN.
Published in The Register-Mail on February 3, 2012
His political and civic leadership included president of the Knox County Young Republican's Club, commissioner of the Knox County Board and the Sheriff's committee, township supervisor, district chairman with the Boy Scouts of America, president of the Associated Credit Bureaus of Illinois and president of the Galesburg Kiwanis Club. He was an active member of Galesburg Alpha Masonic Lodge No. 155 and Stillwater's St. Johns Lodge No. 1, attaining the 32nd Degree of the Scottish Rite.
On his retirement in 1995, Doug moved to Stillwater, Minn., so he and his wife Connie could live near their children.
Hunting and fishing were his lifelong passions. With his dog Goldie as his companion, he spent many weekends with close friends and business colleagues, sons and finally granddaughters hunting quail and pheasant and fishing for trout, bass, crappie and walleye. Not to be slowed down, he recently went hunting with Scott using a 4x4 to get to the birds. As a garnish to the wild game, Doug always grew tomatoes and green beans in his gardens.
In the 1970s, he earned his private pilots license, flew Cessna airplanes and hung around the Galesburg Airport and the Stearman Fly-In.
Doug was active in his Christian faith, singing in church choirs from the 1940s through 1990s, teaching Sunday school and serving on the Church Council of Trinity Lutheran Church, Galesburg Ill.
Doug was preceded in death by his older siblings, William Begin and Georgiana Begin Johnson, and his beloved daughter, Tracey (Bergmann) Hill. He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Constance Louis (Neseth) Bergmann, and by the families of his children, (son) Scott and Agma Bergmann of S. St. Paul, (son-in-Law) Steve Hill of Apple Valley and (son) Curt and Susan Bergmann of St. Paul; granddaughters Genevieve (Bergmann) Brau and husband Christopher Brau, Angela (Bergmann) Kassube and husband Anthony Kassube, Kirsten Hill, Siri Hill, Rebecca Bergmann and Elizabeth Bergmann; and great-grandchildren Eva Hill, Andrew Martin Kassube and Alexander Douglas Brau.
Visitation will be 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012, at Bradshaw Funeral Home in Stillwater, Minn. Funeral will be at noon Monday, Feb. 6, 2012, at St. Andrews Lutheran Church in Mahtomedi. Memorials may be sent to the organ fund at St. Andrews Lutheran Church, Minnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance, or Goodwill Easter Seals MN.
Published in The Register-Mail on February 3, 2012
STILLWATER, Minn. - Our father, grandfather and husband Douglas Martin Bergmann, son of Hilda (Hopkins) and Edwin Bergmann, died Monday, Jan. 30, 2012. Born in Minneapolis, Minn., April 28, 1931, Doug, the youngest of three children, attended Minneapolis schools, St. Cloud Teachers College and was a veteran serving on the USS GWIN (DM-33) 1951,1952. He managed offices for Public Finance Minn., Iowa and Ill.. and completed his career as executive vice president of the Galesburg Credit Bureau and Collection Agency.
His political and civic leadership included president of the Knox County Young Republican's Club, commissioner of the Knox County Board and the Sheriff's committee, township supervisor, district chairman with the Boy Scouts of America, president of the Associated Credit Bureaus of Illinois and president of the Galesburg Kiwanis Club. He was an active member of Galesburg Alpha Masonic Lodge No. 155 and Stillwater's St. Johns Lodge No. 1, attaining the 32nd Degree of the Scottish Rite.
On his retirement in 1995, Doug moved to Stillwater, Minn., so he and his wife Connie could live near their children.
Hunting and fishing were his lifelong passions. With his dog Goldie as his companion, he spent many weekends with close friends and business colleagues, sons and finally granddaughters hunting quail and pheasant and fishing for trout, bass, crappie and walleye. Not to be slowed down, he recently went hunting with Scott using a 4x4 to get to the birds. As a garnish to the wild game, Doug always grew tomatoes and green beans in his gardens.
In the 1970s, he earned his private pilots license, flew Cessna airplanes and hung around the Galesburg Airport and the Stearman Fly-In.
Doug was active in his Christian faith, singing in church choirs from the 1940s through 1990s, teaching Sunday school and serving on the Church Council of Trinity Lutheran Church, Galesburg Ill.
Doug was preceded in death by his older siblings, William Begin and Georgiana Begin Johnson, and his beloved daughter, Tracey (Bergmann) Hill. He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Constance Louis (Neseth) Bergmann, and by the families of his children, (son) Scott and Agma Bergmann of S. St. Paul, (son-in-Law) Steve Hill of Apple Valley and (son) Curt and Susan Bergmann of St. Paul; granddaughters Genevieve (Bergmann) Brau and husband Christopher Brau, Angela (Bergmann) Kassube and husband Anthony Kassube, Kirsten Hill, Siri Hill, Rebecca Bergmann and Elizabeth Bergmann; and great-grandchildren Eva Hill, Andrew Martin Kassube and Alexander Douglas Brau.
Visitation will be 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012, at Bradshaw Funeral Home in Stillwater, Minn. Funeral will be at noon Monday, Feb. 6, 2012, at St. Andrews Lutheran Church in Mahtomedi. Memorials may be sent to the organ fund at St. Andrews Lutheran Church, Minnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance, or Goodwill Easter Seals MN.
Published in The Register-Mail on February 3, 2012
His political and civic leadership included president of the Knox County Young Republican's Club, commissioner of the Knox County Board and the Sheriff's committee, township supervisor, district chairman with the Boy Scouts of America, president of the Associated Credit Bureaus of Illinois and president of the Galesburg Kiwanis Club. He was an active member of Galesburg Alpha Masonic Lodge No. 155 and Stillwater's St. Johns Lodge No. 1, attaining the 32nd Degree of the Scottish Rite.
On his retirement in 1995, Doug moved to Stillwater, Minn., so he and his wife Connie could live near their children.
Hunting and fishing were his lifelong passions. With his dog Goldie as his companion, he spent many weekends with close friends and business colleagues, sons and finally granddaughters hunting quail and pheasant and fishing for trout, bass, crappie and walleye. Not to be slowed down, he recently went hunting with Scott using a 4x4 to get to the birds. As a garnish to the wild game, Doug always grew tomatoes and green beans in his gardens.
In the 1970s, he earned his private pilots license, flew Cessna airplanes and hung around the Galesburg Airport and the Stearman Fly-In.
Doug was active in his Christian faith, singing in church choirs from the 1940s through 1990s, teaching Sunday school and serving on the Church Council of Trinity Lutheran Church, Galesburg Ill.
Doug was preceded in death by his older siblings, William Begin and Georgiana Begin Johnson, and his beloved daughter, Tracey (Bergmann) Hill. He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Constance Louis (Neseth) Bergmann, and by the families of his children, (son) Scott and Agma Bergmann of S. St. Paul, (son-in-Law) Steve Hill of Apple Valley and (son) Curt and Susan Bergmann of St. Paul; granddaughters Genevieve (Bergmann) Brau and husband Christopher Brau, Angela (Bergmann) Kassube and husband Anthony Kassube, Kirsten Hill, Siri Hill, Rebecca Bergmann and Elizabeth Bergmann; and great-grandchildren Eva Hill, Andrew Martin Kassube and Alexander Douglas Brau.
Visitation will be 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012, at Bradshaw Funeral Home in Stillwater, Minn. Funeral will be at noon Monday, Feb. 6, 2012, at St. Andrews Lutheran Church in Mahtomedi. Memorials may be sent to the organ fund at St. Andrews Lutheran Church, Minnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance, or Goodwill Easter Seals MN.
Published in The Register-Mail on February 3, 2012
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