Obit for Mrs. Bertha (Gareis) SPRENGER (d.1945) Brown Co., MN

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Unknown Brown Co. Paper, bet April 13-15, 1945
MRS. SPRENGER DIES; FUENRAL TO BE MONDAY
  Mrs. Bertha Sprenger, 84, died Thursday at 11 p.m. at the Sprenger 
home, 519 North Broadway.  She had been bedfast for the previous three 
weeks.
  Funeral services will be at 9 a.m., Monday, with solemn requiem mass 
in Holy Trinity Catholic church.  The body will be at the Leo Sprenger 
home, 503 North Minnesota street, Sunday afternoon.  Prayers will be at 
the home at 7:30 p.m. Sunday.
  Bertha Gareis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Gareis, was born in Ober 
Franken, Bavaria, Germany, and came to America  in 1872 with her family.  
The settled on a farm in Milford township, and her brother John Gareis 
now occupies the old home place.  She was one of nine children.
  She and Christ Sprenger were married in Holy Trinity Catholic church 
Nov. 8, 1882, by the late Rev. Alexander Berghold.  They made their home 
in this city and Mr. Sprenger for  many years was an employee in Crone 
brothers general store.  He was later city treasurer, and died April 12, 
1934. Mr. and Mrs. Sprenger celebrated their Golden Wedding anniversary 
in 1932.
  There were seven children. One daughter Margaret, died in infancy, and 
another daughter, Florence, died at the age of 4, and a son, Emil, was 
50, when he died in Cleveland, Ohio.  Three sons and one daughter, survive.  
They are Leo Sprenger, acting city treasurer, Edward and Alfons  Sprenger, 
Chicago, Ill., and Miss Crescentia Sprenger, at home.
  She is survived by two brothers, and one sister; John Gareis, Milford; 
Fred Gareis, Commerical Place, Calif., and Mrs. Paul Wiedenmann, Sleepy Eye.
  She was a charter member of the St. Elizabeth and Christian Mothers 
societies.