Keizer, Bertha E. 1911-1986

KEIZER, FIIHR, HEITRITTER

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 7/26/2009 at 20:51:26

BERTHA KEIZER FUNERAL TUESDAY
FOR 10-YEAR SITE MANAGER

Bertha Emma Keizer, 74, of LeMars, died unexpectedly Friday, (Jan. 3, 1986) at her home.

She was honored Dec. 18, 1985, by Senior Citizens and retired Dec. 31 as the 10-year site manager for congregate meals for senior citizens in LeMars.

Funeral will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the First Baptist Church in LeMars with Rev. Gordon Rhodes officiating. Burial will be in LeMars Memorial Cemetery under the direction of the Mauer-Johnson Funeral Home.

The former Bertha Heitritter, she was born Sept. 3, 1911, at Boyden to Herman and Eldora Fiihr Heittritter. She moved to LeMars in 1944.

Her marriage to Julius Ersland took place in 1933. He died in 1938. She married Wesley Keizer in 1939. He died in 1966.

Survivors are her son, Neil “Doc” Ersland of LeMars and a sister, Mrs. Floyd (Frieda) Fiihr of Sheldon and several nieces and nephews. She was also preceded in death by four sisters and two brothers.

~Source: The LeMars Daily Sentinel, January 1986