Noah Edward Bergen

BERGEN, FOX, EVEANS, ADAMS, MCKEE, MOORE

Posted By: Judy Kelley (volunteer) (email)
Date: 4/6/2009 at 18:27:22

Columbus Gazette, April 3, 1981

Noah Edward Bergen, 75, Wapello, died Friday morning, April 3, 1981, at the Morning Sun Manor. He had lived there the past two years.

Funeral services were held Saturday, April 4, at the Dudgeon-McCulley Funeral Home. Rev. Fred Harris officiated. Burial was in the Fairview Cemetery near Newport. A Heart Fund memorial has been established.

Mr. Bergen was born May 8, 1905, in Louisa County to John Henry and Rosa Fox Bergen. He married Emma Eveans on October 30, 1924, in Wapello. She died December 28, 1975.

He had been employed as a button-cutter in the 1930's and in 1940 he joined the Carpenters Union at Burlington. He had worked for Askren and Nelson Construction of Wapello, retiring in 1970. He was a member of the Church of the Nazarene.

Survivors include two sons Kenneth, Springfield, Missouri, and Marvin, Wapello; two daughters Mrs. Donald (Carolyn) Adams and Mrs. James (Virginia) McKee Sr., both of Morning Sun; 16 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; and one sister Mrs. Sherman (Mary) Moore of Wapello.

He was preceded in death by one daughter, two sisters, two brothers, and three grandsons.