Bertha Herum 1851-1938

HERUM, TALLE, EGELAND, ANDERSON

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 5/26/2013 at 00:32:37

Long Illness Fatal to Mrs. [Miss] Bertha Herum
Miss Bertha Herum, 86, died at 4:30 a.m. today at the home of her sister, Mrs. Anfin Egeland, 727 South Ninth street, following a long illness.

Miss Herum, who was formerly a dressmaker here, had been a patient in the Coleman hospital for nine months but recently was removed to the home of her sister.

Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the home of Mrs. Egeland and at 2 p.m. at the Norwegian Lutheran church. The services will be conducted by the Rev. L.A. Mathre, assisted by the Rev. Peder Nordsletten, pastor of the Wallingford Lutheran church.

Interment will be in the Riverside cemetery at Wallingford.

Miss Herum is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Egeland and Mrs. P. S. Anderson, both of Estherville, and a brother, Andrew Herum, of Randall, Minn. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, January 15, 1938)

Bertha Herum, Pioneer, Dies
Came to Emmet County in 1870; Funeral Services Held Today
Miss Bertha Herum, 85, one of Emmet County’s best known and most highly esteemed pioneer women, died Saturday, Jan. 15 at the home of her sister, Mrs. Anfin Egeland after a long illness.

Funeral services were held this afternoon at one-thirty from the home and at two o’clock from the Estherville Lutheran church. Rev. L.A. Mathre and Rev. Peder Nordsletten officiated. Interment was made in the Wallingford Lutheran cemetery.

Miss Herum was born in Dane county, Wis., Sept. 2, 1852 [per cemetery records, 1851], the fourth child and eldest daughter of Peder and Bertha Talle Herum.

She moved with her parents to High Lake township, Emmet county in 1870. Two years later the mother died and it fell to Bertha’s lot as the oldest daughter to take a mother’s place for the younger children and to assume the responsibility for the home.

Since leaving the parental home over 40 years ago she had spent most of the time in and around Estherville where she engaged in dressmaking and practical nursing.

For the last three years her health had failed. She was cared for two years at the home of her sister Mrs. P.S. Anderson, then for six months was a patient at the Coleman hospital and for the last three months at the home of her sister, Mrs. Anfin Egeland.

Preceding her in death are her parents and eight brothers. Surviving are the two sisters, Mrs. Anderson and Mrs. Egeland, and one brother, Andrew Herum of Randall, Minnesota. (Vindicator and Republlican, Estherville, IA, January 18, 1938)