Obit: Berg, Lawrence (1894 - 1953)
Transcriber: Stan

Surnames: Berg, Lempke, Larson

----Source: Thorp Courier (Thorp, Clark County, Wis.) 03/05/1953

Berg, Lawrence (21 FEB 1894 - 2 MAR 1953)

(Cemetery listing says Berge)

Lawrence Berg, 59, Stanley, passed away suddenly Monday morning at the home of his sister, Mrs. Lars Larson, Stanley, with whom he resided.

He was born Feb. 21, 1894, in Vernon Co., town of Greenwood, and with his parents moved in 1901 to the Town of Thorp in Clark County. When he was 14 he was stricken with polio and was an invalid ever since.

In 1921 he opened a photo studio in Greenwood (Clark Co.), which he operated until 1950, when he moved to Stanley to live with his sister.

He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Andrew Berg, Neenah, two sisters, Mrs. Carl Lempke, Neenah, and Mrs. Lars Larson, Stanley, two brothers, Alfred of Stanley, and Robert of Bagley, Minn.

Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Thursday at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church with Rev. John Mason officiating. Interment will be in the East Side Cemetery.