Eberhard Albert Bernau (1919)

BERNAU, KUNSCH, MARQUARDT, PESTITNIK

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 12/31/2007 at 18:54:15

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, February 5, 1919
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EBERHARD ALBERT BERNAU

Eberhard Albert Bernau was born in Jefferson township, Madison county, Iowa, Sept. 22, 1884. He was baptized and later confirmed in the Evangelical Lutheran faith and departed this life after a few days' illness with bronchial pneumonia January 21, 1919, aged 34 years, 4 months.

He was married to Miss Mary Pestitnik Oct. 10, 1905 at Ogden, Iowa. To this union were born two children, John Herman, age 11; and Abena Esther, aged 7. Beside the wife and children he leaves his mother, Mrs. John Kunsch, Earlham, Iowa, and one sister, Mrs. Wm. Marquardt, DeSoto, Iowa, and a host of relatives and friends to mourn his loss. He was preceded in death by his father eighteen years ago.

His funeral was conducted in the Lutheran church on the 23rd day of January, 1919, Rev. H. W. Schrieber officiating.

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