Monday, February 8, 1954
P. 17
Mrs. Anton O. Berge, 86, (above), of Rt. 1, Valders, mother of 13 children, died Sunday following a lingering illness.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Valders Evangelical Lutheran Church. The Rev. A. B. Holland will officiate and burial will be in the church cemetery.
She was born Olena Gigstadt in the town of Liberty in 1867 and in 1887 was married to Anton Berge. They located on the homestead farm, a mile and a half south of Valders. In October, 1952, the couple observed their 65th wedding anniversary. In 1935 her husband was honored at the University of Wisconsin, with four others in the state, in recognition of leadership given to agriculture and homemaking.
In recent years the couple lived in retirement on the homestead farm now operated by a son, Oley. Mrs. Berge was a member of the Ladies Aid Society of the Lutheran congregation. Surviving are her husband; seven sons, Oscar of Elmhurst, Ill., Albert of Rt. 1., Valders, Walter of Valders, Norman of Manitowoc, Orrin of Sheboygan, Harold of Milwaukee and Oley on the home farm; six daughters, Mrs. Belinda Klann of Liberty, Mrs. J. B. Reinertson of Riverside, Ill., Mrs. Ruth Bleck of Valders, Mrs. Kenneth Johnston of Manitowoc, Mrs. M. L. Berge of Elgin, Ill., and Mrs. Harold Gramm of Chicago; 34 grand-children and 29 great grandchildren.
Friends may call at the Berge Funeral home, Valders, after Wednesday noon. The casket will be moved to the church at 11 a.m. Thursday.
Monday, February 8, 1954
P. 17
Mrs. Anton O. Berge, 86, (above), of Rt. 1, Valders, mother of 13 children, died Sunday following a lingering illness.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Valders Evangelical Lutheran Church. The Rev. A. B. Holland will officiate and burial will be in the church cemetery.
She was born Olena Gigstadt in the town of Liberty in 1867 and in 1887 was married to Anton Berge. They located on the homestead farm, a mile and a half south of Valders. In October, 1952, the couple observed their 65th wedding anniversary. In 1935 her husband was honored at the University of Wisconsin, with four others in the state, in recognition of leadership given to agriculture and homemaking.
In recent years the couple lived in retirement on the homestead farm now operated by a son, Oley. Mrs. Berge was a member of the Ladies Aid Society of the Lutheran congregation. Surviving are her husband; seven sons, Oscar of Elmhurst, Ill., Albert of Rt. 1., Valders, Walter of Valders, Norman of Manitowoc, Orrin of Sheboygan, Harold of Milwaukee and Oley on the home farm; six daughters, Mrs. Belinda Klann of Liberty, Mrs. J. B. Reinertson of Riverside, Ill., Mrs. Ruth Bleck of Valders, Mrs. Kenneth Johnston of Manitowoc, Mrs. M. L. Berge of Elgin, Ill., and Mrs. Harold Gramm of Chicago; 34 grand-children and 29 great grandchildren.
Friends may call at the Berge Funeral home, Valders, after Wednesday noon. The casket will be moved to the church at 11 a.m. Thursday.
Family Members
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Belinda Rosetta Berge Klann Bremer
1888–1981
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Anna Marie Berge Reinertson
1890–1982
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Oscar Kenneth Berge
1891–1975
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Albert Berge
1893–1980
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Ruth Amanda Berge Bleck
1895–1987
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Walter Floyd Berge
1897–1974
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Lillian Martine Berge Johnston
1898–1996
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Norman Gustav Berge
1900–1964
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Lenora Berge Berge
1902–1996
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Orrin J Berge
1904–1993
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Harold Reuben Berge
1906–1990
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Alice Clarabelle Berge Gram
1909–2002
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Oley Edwin Berge
1911–2006
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