Bernetta (Collopy) CRONEMILLER

CRONEMILLER, COLLOPY, NELSON, KNAPTON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 4/21/2015 at 15:52:51

June 11, 1901 --- June 18, 1986

Bernetta Cronemiller, 85, Blackduck, Minnesota formerly of Northern Township, died Wednesday at Northern Pines Good Samaritan Center in Blackduck. Funeral services were at Northern Bible Chapel. Interment will be in Greenwood Cemetery.

Mrs. Cronemiller was born June 11, 1901, at Eagle Grove, Iowa, the daughter of William and Mary Collopy. She moved with her family to Minneapolis at the age of 3 and in 1914 to the Bemidji area. She married Ralph Cronemiller May 24, 1920, at Park Rapids. They bought a farm in Northern Township, and she had lived there since. In earlier years she was active in church work at Willow Grove, which later became Northern Bible Chapel. She had lived at Good Samaritan Center since April 1985.

She is survived by three daughters, Marian (Mrs. Donald) Nelson, Minneapolis, Beth (Mrs. Kenneth) Knapton, Columbia Falls, Mont., and Helen (Mrs. Conrad) Nelson, Brooksville, Fla.: a son, John, Bemidji: 16 grandchildren: 25 great-grandchildren; and two great –great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by her husband in 1978, four brothers and two sisters.

Bemidji Pioneer - Bemidji, Minnesota
June 20, 1986