Bertha Helen (Skinner) Borts (1885-1958)

SKINNER, BORTS, EDWARDS, MORRISON, SLAVENS, GEISLER

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:13

From Nevada Evening Journal February 18, 1958 (page 4)

MRS. BERTHA BORTS

COLLINS -- Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon in the Methodist church in Mingo for Mrs. Bertha Bort with Rev. Kenneth E. Nesbitt officiating. Music was furnished by Mrs. Dale Harter, organist and Mrs. John Cleverley, soloist.

Casket bearers were Stanley Byal, Leon Maxwell, Albert Tom, James Hanson, O. W. Fuller and Lyle Pulley.

Flowers were arranged and cared for by Mrs. Dennis Cumming, Mrs. Howard Southern and Mrs. Hale Nickell. Interment was in the Ashton Chapel cemetery near Mingo in charge of the Boyd-Nickell Funeral Service at Baxter.

Life Sketch

Bertha Helen Skinner, daughter of Herbert K. and Mary Edwards-Skinner, was born May 20, 1885 in Clear Creek Township, Jasper county, Iowa and died Feb. 10, 1958 in the Story County Hospital in Nevada.

She grew to womanhood and was educated in the rural schools of the community. She joined the church at Ashton Chapel in her girlhood and was an active member to her church as well as the Methodist church in Mingo as long a her health permitted.

She was united in marriage with Eli Borts at Mingo, Feb. 18, 1903. They spent their married life in the Collins community until 1943 when they moved to Mingo.

To this union were born three daughters, Mrs. Reva Morrison of Collins, Mrs. Zelma Slavens and Mrs. Lena Geisler of Mingo and one son, Paul Borts, also of Mingo.

She was preceded in death by her husband, two sisters and five brothers.

Survivors are her four children, two grandsons, Don Borts in the Marines at San Diego, Calif. and Jim Borts of Mingo, many nieces and nephews and a host of friends.