Mrs. Phillip Wilbert (1868-1944)

WILBERT, ROGERS, BULING, BANDOW

Posted By: John Davis (email)
Date: 2/16/2020 at 21:27:32

Obit posted in Ottumwa Courier March 26, 1944
Mrs. Margaret Wilbert, 75, widow of Phillip Wilbert died at the home of her daughter Mrs. M.J. Rogers, 326 West Fifth street, early Sunday morning. She was born May 13, 1868, in Berea, Ohio, the daughter of Joseph and Julia Buling. She is survived in addition to Mrs. Rogers, by a daughter Mrs. Walter Bandow of Cleveland; two sons, Staff Sergeant Eugene Wilbert, stationed in England with the Army Air Forces, and Charles Wilbert of Minneapolis; three sisters living in Cleveland, and one living in Grafton, Ohio; also seven grandchildren. The Altar and Rosary society of St. Mary’s church of which she was a member, will meet at 8 p.m. today at the Moroney funeral home to recite the rosary. Funeral services will be held at 9 a.m. Tuesday at St. Mary’s church with a requiem high mass celebrated by the Rt. Rev. Msgr. J.M. Walsh V.F. Burial will be in Calvary cemetery.