OBITUARY: Bertha Melvina Tollefson, 1918-1996, Mitchell County, Iowa [From Mason City Globe Gazette, Mason City, Iowa, Oct. 26, 1996 (edited)] Bertha M. Tollefson ST. ANSGAR, IOWA--Bertha M. Tollefson, 78, of St. Ansgar, died Wednesday, Oct. 23, 1996, at North Iowa Mercy Health Center, Mason City. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday at First Lutheran Church, with the Rev. Robert Porisch officiating. Burial will be in First Lutheran Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 3 to 6 p.m. Sunday at the Schroeder & Sites Funeral Home. Bertha M. Tollefson was born April 27, 1918, in Bergen, N.D. Survivors include two sons, David, of Lamberton, Minn., and Ray of Macon, Georgia.; nine grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; several step- grandchildren; several stepgreat-grandchildren; and one sister, Gladys DePin of Marengo, Illinois. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, one son, twin grandchildren, four brothers and three sisters. Copyright 2004, Kermit Kittleson (for IaGenWeb)