DUNNING, Bertha Augusta (Arhart) 1847-1912

DUNNING, ARHART, LAMB, DOORE, HALSTEAD, BEEMER

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Date: 6/28/2015 at 13:50:22

Bertha Augusta (Arhart) Dunning – April 24, 1847 – August 6, 1912

MRS. DUNNING CALLED

We are called upon to chronicle the death this week of Mrs. Dunning, who has been a very patient sufferer for several years. She passed away at her house in Greene, Tuesday evening, August 6, at 8:15.

Bertha Augusta Arhart was born in Germany on April 24, 1847. She came with her parents when she was about nine years of age. They resided at different places in Wisconsin.

She was married at Ripon, Wisconsin, in 1867, to George J. Dunning and shortly afterwards came to Iowa. She and her husband located on a farm west of Marble rock in Floyd County. There they lived until eighteen years ago, when they moved to Greene.

To them were born six children, one of whom died in infancy. The five who are living are; William Dunning and Mrs. Lillie Lamb, of Marble Rock, Mrs. Minnie Doore of Greene, Mrs. Emma Halstead, at Turlock, California, and Miss Alice Dunning of Greene.

Mr. George Dunning died in March, 1905 and was buried in the West Side Cemetery at Marble Rock.

Mrs Dunning leaves four brothers, Herman Arhart and Charles Arhart of Marble Rock, Albert Arhart of North Dakota; Robert Arhart of Wisconsin; and a sister, Mrs. Mary Beemer of Illinois.
Since her husband’s death, she has been living with her daughter, Alice in Greene. In 1907, they went to visit Mrs. Halstead in California and while there, Mrs. Dunning was stricken with paralysis on January 9, 1908. Since then complications of other diseases have caused her to suffer intensely and continually and she has had constant care from her daughter, Alice, during these years. She has been bedfast much of the time but sometimes was able to be wheeled about in a chair. She has set before the people of Greene a beautiful example of patient suffering, and her daughter has place before us an excellent example of devotion to mother.

The people west of Marble Rock and in the town who have known Mrs. Dunning for so many years speak of her faithfulness to her home duties, and of the many kind and neighborly acts she die during her life. She had many friends in that vicinity.

The funeral service will occur at the home Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock and the remains will be interred by the side of her band in the Marble Rock Cemetery.

The Press joins the many friends and acquaintances in expressing deepest sympathy to the bereaved one.
Butler County Press.

Marble Rock Journal, August 15, 1912