GOETSCH, Bertha Albertine (Krueger) 1852-1925

GOETSCH, KRUEGER, THOMAS

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Date: 11/3/2010 at 14:33:05

Cresco Plain Dealer, February 6, 1925, page 5

Goetsch

Mrs. William Goetsch of Albion township, Howard County Iowa, passed away early Monday morning, January 20, 1925, at the age of seventy-two years, one month, and two days. She leaves her husband, seven children, one brother and one sister; and eleven grandchildren to mourn her loss. Two brothers and one sister have recently preceded her to the great beyond.

Her four sons and two grandsons acted as pallbearers: Arthur Goetsch, Bonair; Alex and Will Goetsch, Cresco; Edward Goetsch, Cedar Falls; and Everet and Wlllard Thomas, Bonair.

Bertha Albertine Krueger was born at Sugar Island, Dodge County, Wisconsin, December 23, 1852. Her girlhood days were spent in Lebanon and Emmet, Wisconsin. Here she attended the public schools and church. At the age of fifteen she united with the Baptist Church.

In 1872 she was united In marriage with William E. Goetsch of Watertown, Wisconsin, who at the time, was engaged in the mercantile business. In March 1879 she moved with her husband to Iowa settling on a farm in Fremont Township, Winneshiek County. For four years the life of both Mr. and Mrs. Goetsch was that suffered by the hardships of pioneering. In 1883 these sturdy parents moved to Albion Township, Howard County. It is here that Mrs. Goetsch completed a career of exalted womanhood. For more than thirty years she was a faithful member of the Zion Evangelical Church. The past twenty years she has been a devoted worker in the Ladies Aid Society.

Mrs. Goetsch personified the virtues toward which we should all strive — Faith, Love, Purity, Justice and Truth. Her faith in the reality and beauty of the heavenly life to which she has been called was so strong that even those who love her best and will miss her presence here most, can only feel that she is now realizing the larger, fuller life for which she had been preparing. She looked forward confidently to her happy life in the next world, and she filled her life with loving service. Her unselfish devotion to her home and to the community, her sweetness of character and her gentle dignity endeared her to all who knew her and leaves memories that will long be cherished in the hearts of the bereaved family and her many friends.

There are but few women in whom the tender emotion of "mother love" is more strongly revealed than it was in Mrs. Goetsch.

Obituaries found in the Howard-Winneshiek Genealogy Society Library, Cresco, Iowa and contributed by Janice Sowers, 2010. Transcribed by an IA GenWeb Volunteer.