Obit: Baumgartner, Bertha (1876 - 1943)

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Surnames: BAUMGARTNER BRAMS MICHAELS WEIDLER SHERMAN HELPEL

----Source: GREENWOOD LIBRARY SCRAPBOOK COLLECTION
MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD 2/13/1943
 

MRS. MATT BAUMGARTNER

Greenwood Mrs. Matt Baumgartner, 66, died of a heart attack Friday afternoon, Feb. 12, 1943 at 1:30 o'clock at her home in the south city limits (Greenwood, Clark County). She had been seriously ill the past four weeks and was in poor health for a year.

Mrs. Baumgartner, the former Bertha Brams, daughter of the late Jacob Brams, was born in Linxville, Feb. 27, 1876. The Matt Baumgartners resided in Humbird until two years ago when they moved to Greenwood.

A Member of Zion Reformed Church and its Ladies Aid Society, Mrs. Baumgartner is survived by her husband a son, John Baumgartner, Fall Creek and five daughters, Mrs. John Michaels, Clay City, Ind. Mrs. Victor Weidler, Ridgeway, Pa. Mrs. Adolph Weidler, Decatur, Ill. Mrs. Dan Sherman, Sturgeon Bay and Mrs. Robert Helpel, Green Lake.

Funeral services have been arranged for Tuesday afternoon at 12:30 o clock at Zion Reformed Church at Greenwood and at 2 o clock at the Reformed Church at Humbird. The Rev. B. M. Fresenborg will have charge of the rites, and burial will be made in Mentor Cemetery.