Anna left our lives Wednesday afternoon, May 27, 2020, in Oklahoma City. She was born December 4, 1927, in Illinois City, Ill. She grew up in an Amish culture in Muscatine, Iowa. She married Gilbert “Ted” Brugman, September 9, 1946, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Muscatine. They moved to Shirland, Ill., in 1956 where she and Ted continued a farming life while raising their three children, Jim, Danny and JoAnn.
Anna retired from Atwood Vacuum Machine Company, Rockford, Ill., in 1990. In 1999 Anna and Ted moved to Meeker, Okla., to spend more time with their daughter and granddaughter. Anna and Ted spent their vacations traveling the United States in their camper or on their Honda 1000 motorcycle pulling a trailer and camping in a tent. They visited all states with the exception of Maine. Anna also enjoyed trail riding and camping with her appaloosa or mule. Even did a weeklong trail ride to see the “4 dudes” (as she called them) at Mount Rushmore.
Shortly after Anna’s retirement, she and Ted decided to become “Snow Birds.” It didn’t take long for them to decide to buy a lot at Winterhaven Resort in Brownsville, Texas, where they spent over 20 years making new friends and “family.”
Anna was preceded in death by her husband Ted, her parents, two brothers, a sister, her son James and daughter-in-law Patricia.
She leaves behind a son, Daniel Brugman and his wife Gail, of Roscoe, Ill.; daughter, JoAnn Craig of Meeker; six grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; and 10 great-great grandchildren.
A private graveside service will be in the future followed by a memorial in Brownsville, Texas, this fall.
Final arrangements were under the direction of Affordable Cremation Services in Oklahoma City.