Minnie Berven, 1895-1975

BERVEN, SCHWARTZ

Posted By: Emmet County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 7/28/2006 at 10:53:28

BERVEN, Minnie

Estherville-Funeral services for Minnie Berven, 80, Estherville, will be 10 a.m. Monday at the Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church south of Gruver with the Rev. Dale Jenson officiating and burial at the Swan Lake Cemetery. She died Friday morning at the Good Samaritan Center.

Mrs. Berven was born April 21, 1895, to Mr. and Mrs. Schwartz in Germany. She came to the United States with her sister when she was 18 and on July 1, 1917, she was married to George Berven. They lived in Estherville before moving to a farm in the Ringsted and Maple Hill area where they farmed many years. She was a longtime member of the Immanuel Evangelical Church south of Gruver.

Survivors include two sons, Albert and Donald, Ringsted; and two daughters, Mrs. Orville (Gladys) Gjerde, Spirit Lake; and Mrs. Vernon (Frieda) Johnson, Armstrong; 11 grandchildren and five great grandchildren.

Friends may call at the Fuhrman Funeral Home anytime Sunday.

Contributed by: Linda Ziemann, Iowa Old Press IAGenWeb Special Project Coordinator, http://iowaoldpress.com/

Contributor Note: date of death penciled on this obit is: July 18, 1975.