Obituaries: Missouri Virginia Maseberg, 1950, Winn Parish, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: February 3, 1950 Winnfield News-American

Funeral Conducted For Mrs. Maseberg Thursday at 2 PM

Lifelong Resident of Winn Parish Buried At Union Hill

Funeral services were held Thursday at 2 p.m. for Mrs. Missouri Virginia
Maseberg, 84, who died in an Alexandria hospital Wednesday at 1 a.m. following
a long illness.  Rites were conducted in the home of Mrs. S. E. Berry by the
Rev. Alwin Stokes, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, assisted by the
Rev. Russeau, pastor of Union Hill Church, and interment was in Union Hill
Cemetery.

Mrs. Maseberg, who resided in the home of Mrs. Berry, her daughter, was the
widow of the late Earnest Maseberg, who was lost on the German steamship Elbi
in the British Channel January 30, 1895, while returning to the United States
after taking his daughter, Chestine Maseberg back to his native Germany. 
A collision between the Elbi and a British ship resulted in the loss of all
aboard the Elbi.

Mrs. Maseberg was a member of the Methodist Church of Atlanta, and had lived
in Winn Parish all her life and for the last 20 years with Mrs. Berry.

She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. S. E. Berry, Mrs. Kate Adams of
Winnfield, and Mrs. Louise Presley of Palestine, Texas; one stepdaughter, Mrs.
Chestine Boom of Dusseldorf, Germany; one son, E. B. Maseberg of
Montgomery; 12 grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren.

Pallbearers were her grandsons, Willard Adams of Alexandria, Marshall Berry
of Pineville, R. F. Seiler of Monroe, G. K. Phillips of Nederland, Texas, Leon
Robert of Winnfield, and O. B. Thompson, Jr., of Shreveport.