OBITUARY: Bertha Huemann Mullenbach 1896-2002, Mitchell County, Iowa



                          Bertha Mullenbach

[Mitchell County Press online - Posted Oct. 30, 2002]

Funeral services were held Friday, Oct. 25, 2002 at the Sacred Heart
Catholic Church in Osage, IA for Bertha Mullenbach, age 106, of Osage.
The Reverend Philip Recker officiated. Interment was in the Sacred Heart
Catholic Cemetery, Osage, IA. She died Monday, Oct. 21, 2002 at the Faith
Lutheran Home in Osage.

Bertha was born May 8, 1896 in Stacyville Township the daughter of Nicholas
and Helen (Blake) Huemann. She was united in marriage to Fred Mullenbach
on Feb. 13, 1917 and they farmed near Stacyville and Osage until 1949
when they moved to Osage where Bertha did housework for many years.
Fred died in 1957. Bertha was able to live in her own home until the
age of 93, when she had surgery. She then lived with her daughter
Marce Kisner until she entered the Faith Lutheran Home in July 1996.

Preceding her in death were her parents, husband Fred, sons Gervase, Harold,
Melvin, a daughter, Marce, three brothers and six sisters.

Bertha is survived by two sons, Germaine Mullenbach and wife Helen of Ames,
LaVerne Mullenbach and wife Bonnie of Osage, two daughters-in-law, Millie
Mullenbach of Osage and Marie Mullenbach of Tucson, AZ, son-in-law
Tim Kisner of Osage, 15 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren.






Copyright (c) 2002 by Kermit Kittleson
(Note: I am not necessarily related to the subject of the obituary.)
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