BERG, Carl O. 1882-1941

BERG, LARSON, HARDY, LAMB, HEBERT

Posted By: Karen L. Robertson (email)
Date: 12/29/2009 at 15:56:57

OPERATES LOCAL BLACKSMITH SHOP FOR SIX YEARS ON TOWN'S MAIN STREET

Last rites were held for Carl O. Berg at the Methodist church here last Thursday afternoon at 2:30 with the Rev. W.F. Belling in charge. Death came at his home on Monday, June 2, 1941, at 6:10 o'clock p.m., after a lingering illness of Bright's disease suffered for the past year.

Carl Olaf Berg, son of Ole K. and Louise Larson was born on October 29, 1882, at St. Ansgar. He was baptized and confirmed in the First Lutheran church. He attended the public schools of St. Ansgar and later the Seminary.

His father was a blacksmith and owned his shop located west of the Produce building. Carl assisted his father in the shop and learned the trade. At the age of 21 he left home and hired out to a steel construction company at Minneapolis, Minn., where he worked until 1907 when he went to Kansas City and followed the same type of work in a structural steel plant there.

On January 20, 1909, he was united in marriage to Jessie Hardy of Kansas City and shortly after joined the Methodist church of which she was a member. To this union three children were born all of whom survive; Mrs. P.D. Lamb of Clovis, New Mexico; Miss Nellie Berg of Seligman, Arizona, and Ole Berg of Amarillo, Texas. He is also survived by his widowed 91 year old mother, Louise, and a sister, Mrs. H.H. Hebert, of Spokane, Washington.

In 1919, Carl Berg returned to St. Ansgar and took over his father's blacksmith shop and operated it until 1926 when he sold it to Chris and William Brogmus who moved the building north and annexed it to the produce house. From that date until his death the deceased was engaged in various agricultural enterprises.

He was a faithful and active member of the Methodist church in St. Ansgar for the past 22 years, serving all that time as a member of the official board. As long as his health would permit he was a regular attendant.

Honest and upright, a good neighbor, helpful and sympathetic in his relationship with every one, he will be sadly missed in the community.

Interment was in the First Lutheran cemetery in the Berg family lot. Pallbearers were James Hume, Arnold Troge, Walter Heard, Elmer Halvorson, Ed Tessman and Rudolph Nitardy.

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