Bortscheller, Isabelle 1919-1996

BORTSCHELLER, BERNS, HOEGER

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 1/19/2008 at 15:10:46

ISABELLE BORTSCHELLER

OYENS, Iowa --- Mrs. Francis (Isabbelle C.) Bortscheller, 77, of Oyens died Saturday, Sept. 28, 1996, at Floyd Valley Hospital in LeMars.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at St. Catherine’s Catholic Church in Oyens with the Rev. Randy Schon officiating. Burial will be in the parish cemetery. Visitation will be after 2 p.m. today, with a combined Christian Mothers and Catholic Daughters of America rosary at 4 p.m., and Scriptural wake service at 7:30 p.m., at the Feuerstein Funeral Home in LeMars.

Mrs. Bortscheller was born June 17, 1919, at Granville, the daughter of Herman and Anna (Hoeger) Berns. She was raised in the Granville area and attended St. Joseph’s Catholic Parochial School and Church. She graduated from St. Boniface Catholic High School in New Vienna, Iowa, in 1937. She attended St. Francis School of Nursing at La Crosse, Wis., and worked as an R.N. at the former St. Francis Hospital. She later was employed at the former Sacred Heart Hospital in LeMars, prior to her marriage.

She married Francis Bortscheller Nov. 20, 1948, at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Granville. The couple farmed in the Oyens area until their retirement to Oyens in 1982.

Mrs. Bortscheller was organist and choir director at St. Catherine’s Catholic Church for many years. She was a member of the Christian Mothers Society, Ladies Guild, and the Catholic Daughters of America.

Survivors include her husband; four sons and their wives, Lee and LaVaughn of Independence, Ky., Robert and Carol of Blanchard, Okla., Joe and Pam of Tulsa, Okla., and Frank and Sara of Belvidere, N.J.; two daughters and their husbands, Marilyn and Chuck Hammack of Sioux City and Jane and Gaylin Woodward of Wayne, Neb.; 10 grandchildren; and six sisters, Sister Marcella Bortscheller OSF and Sister Rachel Bortscheller OSF, both of Dubuque, Mrs. May Koopman and Eunice Berns, both of Granville, Mrs. Magnus (Teresa) Schnepf of LeMars and Mrs. James (Anne) Taggart of Dubuque.

She was preceded in death by an infant son, John; an adopted granddaughter, Colleen Bortscheller and three brothers, Sylvester, Cyril and Benedict Berns.

[Part of the Darrell E. Obituary Collection; Source: Sioux City Journal]