Obit: Braun, Bertha (Wilke) (1870 - 1949)

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Source - Anna Johnson's Scrapbook

Bertha Braun (6 Apr 1870 - 27 Jul 1949)

Mrs. Bertha Braun, 79, long-time resident of this community, died at 3 a.m. Wednesday, July 27, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ed Hofmann at Owen.

Funeral services will be held Saturday, July 30, from Peace Evangelical and Reformed church here at 1:30 p.m. The Rev. Fred W. Kollath, pastor, will officiate at the rites, and burial will be in the parish cemetery at the north edge of the village. The deceased now lies in state at the Fuchsgruber Funeral Parlor, and will be taken to the church at noon on Saturday.

Bertha Marie Wilke was born at Zowen, Pommern, Germany, April 6, 1870, and was reared there. She and Albert Braun were married October 22, 1889 at Langendorf, Pommern, and came to the United States March 17, 1892, settling first at Hurley, Wis. Later, they moved to Watertown, where they resided a short time, before moving to a farm near Dorchester in 1895. They had lived in this community since. Mr. Braun died August 14, 1944, and she had lived with her children since then.

Survivors include five daughters, Mrs. William (Emma) Schroeder, of Dorchester; Mrs. Otto (Alvina) Hinkleman, Merrill; Mrs. Oscar (Rose) Peissig, Elgin, Ill.; Mrs. Karl (Mary) Burke, Wittenberg; Mrs. Ed (Martha) Hofmann, Owen, Wis; and three sons, Carl of Dorchester; Fred of Hartford, and Henry of Paw Paw, Ill. Twenty-one grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren also survive.

One son, Albert, a veteran of World War I, died in 1923, and three other children died in infancy. One brother and three sisters also preceded her in death.