BERG, Jessie L. (Glaspey, Colton) 1906-2003

BERG, GLASPEY, COLTON, OLSON, MILLS, FINNEMAN, GEESMAN

Posted By: Diane M Scott (email)
Date: 10/20/2011 at 12:45:38

JESSIE L. (nee Glaspey, Colton) Berg

January 4, 1906 -- November 4, 2003

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MASON CITY: Jessie L. Berg, 97, formerly of 2060 S. Kentucky Ave., died Tuesday, November 4, 2003, at the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit of North Iowa.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Hogan-Bremer-Moore Colonial Chapel, 126 Third St. N.E., with the Rev. Dennis Cahill officiating. Burial will be at Elmwood-St. Joseph Cemetery in Mason City.

Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at Hogan-Bremer-Moore Colonial Chapel.

Memorials may be given to Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit of North Iowa, 232 Second St. S.E., Mason City, IA 50401.

Jessie was born on January 4, 1906, in Lignite, North Dakota, daughter of John and Anna (Olson) Glaspey. She attended school in Lignite, North Dakota.

She was united in marriage to George Colton and to this union two sons were born, Delbert and Russell. George passed away in 1934.

She then married Glen Berg in September of 1936. To this union a daughter, Rose Marie, was born.

Jessie and Glen also raised two grandsons, George and Glen, as sons after a tragic accident claimed the lives of their parents. Jessie in her younger years enjoyed gardening, crocheting, cooking, baking, playing cards and traveling.

She was a member of Holy Family Catholic Church in Mason City.

She is survived by her daughter, Rose Marie Mills, of Mason City; three grandchildren, George Colton and his wife, Theresa, of Nampa, Idaho, Glen Colton and his wife, Laurel, of Lebanon, Ind., and James Finneman and his wife, Ann, of Cedar Rapids; five great-grandchildren, Troy Colton and his wife, Brandi, of Nampa, Idaho, Travis Colton, of Nampa, Idaho, Jessica Colton of Minneapolis, Minn., Andrea Colton of Lebanon, Indiana, and Grant Finneman, of Cedar Rapids; sisters-in-law, Helen Glaspey and Arlene Geesman and her husband, Charles, both of Mason City; brother-in-law, Donald Berg and his wife, Dorothy, of Hot Springs Village, Arkansas; and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husbands, George and Glen; sister, Mabel Snowbarger; brothers, Maurice and John Glaspey; two sons, infant son, Russell and Delbert and his wife, Viola; infant granddaughter, Leona Marie Colton; and great-grandson, Eric Colton.

Hogan-Bremer-Moore Colonial Chapel,

[ Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, Wednesday November 5, 2003 ]
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Note: Her first husband George Henry Colton was born September 6, 1896 in Orchard, Iowa and died June 22, 1934. He was buried in the Orchard Cemetery, Mitchell, Iowa.