CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - ASBRA Mary Bergman
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Cedar County News 5-26-1932

Funeral Services Mrs. Steve Asbra

Succumbs to Long Illness; Services were At. St. James

            Funeral services for Mrs. Stephen Asbra of near Obert who 
passed away Monday evening of last week at 8 o’clock Thursday morning 
at the St. James Church at St. James with Rev. Father Clement Stratman 
of St. Helena in charge of services in the absence of Father Robert 
Blum. Interment was in the St. James Cemetery. Death was due to kidney 
trouble and other complications.

            Mrs. Asbra who was Miss Mary Bergman was born in Obert in 
1885 to Catherine and Philip Bergman. She grew to young womanhood in 
Obert and 19 years ago was united in marriage to Stephen Asbra and they 
began housekeeping on a farm near Mr. Asbra’s birth place where they 
had resided.

            Mrs. Asbra is survived by her husband, five children, 
Valerine, Emmet, Kenneth, Mary Ann, and Emma Lou, five sisters, Mrs. 
Chris Satorius, Obert, Mrs. Albert Hirschman, Hartington, Mrs. Ed Kuehn, 
Crofton, Mrs. Joe Asbra, east of Hartington, Ben Pearson, Obert, and 
two brothers, Joe Bergman near Hartington, and Henry Bergman of Mason 
City. She was preceeded in death by two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Anderson 
and Mrs. Barabara Reifenrath.

            Pallbearers at the services were six nephews, Glen Bergman, 
Philip Begrman, Alvin Kuehn, Edward Asbra, and Allen and Arthur Hirschman. 
Those from out-of town who attended were Mr. and Mrs. Philip Bergman, Mrs. 
Victor Brown and Mrs. Wilbur Work, Mr. and Mrs. Ole Asbra, and Miss Leona 
Asbra, all of Sioux City, and H.P. Bergman of Mason City, and Mrs. 
*Chrysantha Kuehn of Yankton.