Willard G. Bertrand 1930 - 1998

BERTRAND, BOUDREAU, MCMASTER

Posted By: Connie Swearingen- Volunteer (email)
Date: 1/31/2017 at 12:02:22

Sioux City Journal
11 March 1998

Willard G. Bertrand, 68, of Sioux City died Sunday, March 8, 1998, at a Sioux City hospital following a lengthy illness.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at St. Michael’s Catholic Church, with the Rev. Lawrence McCarty officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery, with military rites conducted by American Legion Monahan Post 64. Visitation with the family present will be from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. today, with a rosary at 7 p.m. said by the Third Degree Knights of Columbus and a Scriptural wake service at 7:30 p.m. at Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel.

Mr. Bertrand was born January 26, 1930, in Sioux City, the son of Moses and Fabiola (Boudreau) Bertrand. He graduated from Heelan High School in 1950 and from Dunwoody Institution in Minneapolis, Minnesota in designing and estimating.

He served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War.

He married Dorothea McMaster on August 9, 1952.

He was employed as an estimator and worked in Sioux City for Audino Construction Company and Chris Hansen Construction Company. He moved to South Carolina in 1979, where he was employed as chief estimator for Petit Construction Company until 1992. He returned to Sioux City in 1997.

He was a member of St. Michael’s Catholic Church, Third Degree Knights of Columbus and a past president of the Sertoma Club. He was a volunteer director and coach to the CYO Athletic Department in Sioux City and director of the CYO Youth Group in South Carolina.

Survivors include his wife; a son and his wife; Willard Jr. and Anita Bunkers of Union, Ore., a daughter and her husband, Sheryl Bertrand-Fleming and Dan Fleming of Sioux City; a brother and his wife, Leo and Dorothy of Seattle, Washington; three sisters, Madeline Churches of Gaffney, S.C., Mary Moore of Sioux City and Francine and her husband, Willis Johnson of Sullivan, and; nine grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents, a brother, Duane; two sisters, Joann Jahn and Ernestine Potter and an infant daughter, Debra Lynn.

Pallbearers will be Cliff Snedeker, Henry, Donald and David Kleyweg, Donald and Paul McMaster, Kenneth Moore and Eugene Potter.