Amelia Henrietta (Witt) BERGH

BERGH, WITT, NEWMAN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 9/29/2015 at 14:50:17

June 16, 1876 --- May 19, 1931

DEATH FOLLOWS BRIEF ILLNESS
MRS. J. F. BERGH PASSED AWAY TUESDAY NIGHT
Was 54 Years of Age and Survived by Husband and One Daughter.
Funeral Friday Afternoon
MARRIED AT EAGLE GROVE

Mrs. J. F. Bergh passed away at 10 o'clock Tuesday night from a stroke which she suffered at 7 o'clock that evening. Mrs. Bergh had been ailing for three weeks but seemed to be improving and was up and about her home the day she was stricken. However, she had not been in robust health for a number of years. Funeral services will be held at the Ross Funeral Home at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon and at the Associated church at 2:30 with Rev. R. J. Cornell, pastor of the Associated church, in charge. Burial will be made in Grace Hill cemetery.

Amelia Henrietta Witt was born at LeMars June 16, 1876, and passed away in Hawarden May 19, 1931, at the age of 54 years, 11 months and 3 days. When about a year old she moved with her parents onto a farm about five miles east of Hawarden where she grew to womanhood. She was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran church to which faith she was ever true. On Oct. 11, 1899, she was married to John F. Bergh in Sioux City and they moved to Doon where Mr. Bergh engaged in the hardware business. Later they moved to Dakota and in 1914 they moved to Hawarden and since then this city has been her home.

Besides her husband she is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Florence Newman; two grandchildren, Elsworth and Helen Newman and six brothers, Adolph, Herman, Fred and Henry Witt of Hawarden; Otto Witt of Pipestone, Minn.; and Charles Witt of Scranton, Kan. One brother, Will Witt, died in 1898. Mrs. Bergh was member of the Royal Neighbors of America at Chatsworth. She was a kind and loving wife and mother, devoted to her home. She had a wide circle of friends and acquaintances in this community who join her relatives in mourning her death.

Hawarden Independent - Hawarden, Iowa
May 21, 1931