BLUM, Berniece Mildred (HALFPAP) 1925 - 2016
BLUM, HALFPAP, GARTZ, BARKER, BRAM, STEENHARD, DEVITT, ENGH
Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 7/2/2018 at 00:05:44
Berniece Mildred Blum, 90, of rural Thornton, died April 12, 2016, at the Muse-Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit.
Graveside services will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday, April 16, 2016, at the Rockwell Cemetery.
Visitation will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the Major Erickson Funeral Home, 111 North Pennsylvania Ave., Mason City.
Memorials may be directed to the Berniece Blum Memorial Fund in care of the family.
Online condolences may be left for the family at www.majorericksonfuneralhome.com .
Berniece Mildred Halfpap was born in Meservey, Iowa, on July 2, 1925, the daughter of Fred and Lydia (Gartz) Halfpap. Her mother, Lydia, died in 1927 when Berniece was 1½ years old. She then lived with her grandparents, Ferdinand and Hannah Halfpap, until her father remarried Bertha Gartz Barker in 1929. (Berniece’s mother’s sister.) Berniece graduated from Alexander High School in 1943.
Berniece married Charles Blum on Dec. 17, 1944, at her parents’ home in rural Alexander. They started farming in rural Mason City in 1945. They moved to Thornton in 1962 and farmed there until retirement. They were blessed with four children: Roger Alan, Elaine Jean, Donna Kaye and Julie Joy.
She leaves to mourn her passing three daughters and husbands: Elaine and Steve Bram, Thornton; Donna and Wayne Steenhard, Mason City; Julie and Scott Devitt, Vista, California; nine grandchildren; and twenty-eight great-grandchildren.
Berniece was preceded in death by her husband, Charles; son, Roger; parents, Fred and Lydia Halfpap; stepmother, Bertha Halfpap; baby sister, Marjorie; half-sister, Doreen Engh; brother, Richard; half-brother, Elbert Barker; and six great-grandchildren.
Arrangements are with Major Erickson Funeral Home & Crematory, 111 N. Pennsylvania Avenue, Mason City, Iowa 50401, 641-423-0924, www.majorericksonfuneralhome.com .
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