Obit of Matthew William BURG (b.1870 d.1937), Nicollet Co., MN 
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Subject: Obit of Matthew William BURG

Nicollet Leader Jan. 25, 1937
 
"Passing of Nicollet's Pioneer Hunter-Trapper

Mathew W. Burg
Passed away: St. Peter hospital Monday morning
Cause of Death: flu and pneumonia (stroke nine years ago)
Parents: John and Catherine Burg
Born: March 17, 1870, Middle Lake, Granby township
Age: sixty-six years old 
Married: July 21, 1896, Swan Lake Catholic church
Spouse: Miss Margaret Giefer
Residence: Nicollet Village
Occupation: meat market and stock buying business, threshing machine 
Accomplishments: built and one time owned the brick building now 
occupied by the Portable grocery store and the Nicollet opera house
Favorite pastime: fishing and hunting
Survived by: wife (poor health, spent winter at Palm Beach, Florida
             son: LeRoy Burg, Hoquiam, Wash.
             daughters: Mrs. Alice Johnson, Palm Beach, Fla. 
                        Miss Mildred Burg, of Minneapolis
             brothers:  Anton H. Burg, Nicollet
                        Henry Burg, Oshawa
                        Joseph Burg, Lakefield
                        William Burg, Escondido, California
             sisters: Mrs. Ida Murphy, San Diego, Calif.
                      Mrs. Fred Otto, Escondido, Cal.
                      Mrs. George Grigsby, Escondido, Cal.
                      Mrs. Jess Pruett, Honolulu, Hawaii
             grandchildren: Ray Johnson, Nicollet 
                            Dale Johnson, Nicollet 
                            Maclyn Burg, Hoquiam, Wash
Funeral: Catholic church, Nicollet, Wednesday morning at ten o'clock
Officiated: Rev. Fr. Hrachovsky
Pallbearers: Kenneth and Maurice Burg, Oshawa, 
(all nephews)Fred Roos, New Ulm
             Eldon Burg, Minneapolis
             Theodore and Leonard Giefer, Nicollet
Interment: church cemetery south of Nicollet village