Obit: Bertz, Hedwig  (1906 - 1953)

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Surnames: Bertz, Bickler

----Source: The Loyal Tribune  (Loyal, Clark County, Wis. 16 April 1953)

Bertz, Hedwig  (14 OCT 1906-? APRIL 1953)

Funeral services for Mrs. James Bertz, 48, Loyal, who died Saturday morning in St. Joseph’s Hospital, Marshfield, after an illness of several years, were held at 9:30 a. m. Tuesday in St. Anthony’s Catholic Church.

The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Feider, chaplain at St. Coletta’s Institute at Jefferson and a cousin of the deceased was the celebrant of the Solemn Requiem High Mass. He was assisted by the Rev. Norbert King, Loyal, and the Rev. H. Crubel, Owen. Burial was made in the parish cemetery.

Pallbearers were all brothers of the deceased, Anthony, Claude, Joe, Alex, Peter and Francis Bickler.

Mrs. Bertz, the former Hedwig Catherine Bickler, was born on Oct. 14, 1906, at Random Lake. She received her education in St. Mary’s Parochial School in Marathon where the family moved when she was a child. They came to Loyal in 1928. On May 29, 1928, she was married in St. Anthony’s Catholic Church to James Bertz. They resided on a farm 3 miles south of Loyal, and later, moved to the city. Mrs. Bertz was a member of the

Altar Society.

Survivors include her husband, two sisters, Mrs. Alex (Gertrude) Davel, Stevens Point, and Mrs. Dan (Marian) Engebretson, Evanston, Ill.; eight brothers, Alex and Victor, Milwaukee, Joseph, Kaukauna, Anthony, Neillsville, Peter, Sheboygan, Francis, Oshkosh, and Arthur and Claude, Wausau; and her mother, Mrs. John Marx, Neillsville.

Out of town relatives and friends attending the funeral from Wausau wer: Mrs. Ed Armitage, Mrs. Harold Linder, Mr. John Uebelacker, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bickler, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Bickler.

From Milwaukee - Mr. and Mrs. Alex Bickler; Mr. and Mrs.Victor Bickler, Joyce and Curtis; Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Braun and son James, Mr. Henry Bertz.

From Evanston - Mrs. Ben Engebretson and daughter JoAnn.

From Belguim - Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hopp, Mrs. Joe Oberst, Mr. and Mrs. Emil Bichler, Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Feider, Mrs. Julia Schneider.

Mrs, Nick Plier, Jefferson; Mr. and Mrs. Peter Bichler, Jane and James, Sheboygan; Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bichler and Jerry Kaukauna; Mr and Mrs. Alex Davel, Stevens Point; Vincent Davel, La Crosse.

From Neillsville - Mr. and Mrs. John Marx, Mr. Anton Bichler, Miss Rosalyne Hartung.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Christenson, Miss Bernice Buddinger all of Ellsworth. Francis Bickler and Raymond Bertz of Oshkosh. Mr. and Mrs. George Hegy, Jr., of Hartford; Mrs. Francis Stoiber and Joseph Bertz of Neosha; and James Cambell of Rubicon.

From Marshfield Mr. and Mrs. Glen Huges, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Marvin.

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Soderberg, Colby; Theodore Bertz, Mukwinago; Jerry and Helen Armstrong, Winona; Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Haas, St. Paul; Mr. and Mrs.Robert Strathman and Bonnie, Colby; Mr. and Mrs. Orville Schultz, Unity; Mr. and Mrs. John Bertz and family, Greenwood.