Mrs. ELMER W. (Bertha Bushong) EASLER 1903-1991

BUSHONG, EASLER, JONES, BROWNLEE, AIN, GASS

Posted By: Mary Durr (email)
Date: 3/3/2007 at 08:29:59

Bertha Easler

Funeral services for Bertha Easler were held Friday, March 8, 1:30 p.m. in St. Paul's United Methodist Church, Elgin. The Rev. Richard Kretzschmar officiated. Charles Wagner and Arden Greener sang a duet accompanied by Pat Hansen, organist. Schutte Funeral Service, Clermont, was in charge of arrangements. Burial was in God's Acre Cemetery.

Bertha Bushong Easler, daughter of William Clayton and Eliza Jane (Bushong) Jones, was born February 16, 1903 in Richland, IA. She died Wednesday morning, March 6, 1991 in Palmer Lutheran Health Center, West Union.

She graduated from the Fairfield High School and Parsons College in Fairfield, IA. She taught in several communities during her lifetime, including Union, Iowa, Akron, Ohio, Rochester and Clermont. On February 2, 1930 she married Elmer W. Easler at Fairfield. They were the parents of 2 children.

They lived in Cresco for 14 years where they owned and operated a furniture store. In 1948 they moved to Clermont and purchased the Kaiser-Fraser Garage. The family lived in Rochester and Minneapolis and returned to Clermont in 1976.

She was a member of the Methodist Church in Elgin and its Women's Association, the Order of Eastern Star and a local study club.

Preceding her in death were her parents, her husband, Elmer, who died in 1984, two brothers, Walter and Henley Jones and two sisters, Bessie Brownlee and Florence Ain.

Surviving are a son, Robert, Des Moines; a daughter, Vivian (Mrs. John Gass), Clermont; seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

Casket bearers were Scott Easler, Mark Easler, Steve Boyles, David Gass, Roger Havenstrike and Douglas Appelman.

Postville Herald newspaper clipping from my mother's obituary collection.
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