Bertha was my maternal grandmother, the daughter of George and Freida. I never knew her because she passed before I was born, but many many times I have wished I had known her. She was a teacher and a librarian, wife of Leo and mother to Nancy, Robert, and Margaret. In high school when my mom would have Shakespeare to read, Grandma would read it to her while Mom did chores, because if her mother read it, Mom could understand. She was a great cook, by all accounts, and she was an enormously wise woman who taught my mom a lot, and my mom has in turn taught it all to me. I love you Grandma∼Mrs. Clemen
BRISTOL – Services for Mrs. Leo (Bertha) Clemen, 75, longtime Bristol resident, will be 10:30 a.m. Monday, Jan. 5, at St. Anthony's Catholic church, Bristol, with the Rev. Paul Offerman officiating.
Burial will be in the Bristol Catholic cemetery. Mohs Funeral Service, Webster, is in charge of arrangements.
She died Friday at her home of an apparent heart attack.
A wake service will be held at 8 p.m. Sunday at the church.
Bertha Boldes was born April 7, 1900 in Sioux City, Iowa. She married Leo Clemen May 28, 1927 at Bristol. She served as Librarian in Bristol from 1950 to 1961. She was a charter member of the Octavo Study Club.
Survivors include her husband, one son, Robert, Minneapolis, Minn.; two daughters, Mrs. Roy (Nancy) Olson, Litchfield, Minn.; and Mrs. LeRoy (Margaret) Woods, Garden City; one sister, Miss Lena Boldes, Webster; one brother, Harold Boldes, Albuquerque, N.M.; and five grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by one brother.
Pallbearers will be John Brokaw, Michael Marx, James Marx, Sigurd Knudsen, Lenny Plepp and Louis Machmiller.
Aberdeen American News, Aberdeen, Brown, South Dakota, Sunday January 4, 1976, p30 c2
BRISTOL – Services for Mrs. Leo (Bertha) Clemen, 75, longtime Bristol resident, will be 10:30 a.m. Monday, Jan. 5, at St. Anthony's Catholic church, Bristol, with the Rev. Paul Offerman officiating.
Burial will be in the Bristol Catholic cemetery. Mohs Funeral Service, Webster, is in charge of arrangements.
She died Friday at her home of an apparent heart attack.
A wake service will be held at 8 p.m. Sunday at the church.
Bertha Boldes was born April 7, 1900 in Sioux City, Iowa. She married Leo Clemen May 28, 1927 at Bristol. She served as Librarian in Bristol from 1950 to 1961. She was a charter member of the Octavo Study Club.
Survivors include her husband, one son, Robert, Minneapolis, Minn.; two daughters, Mrs. Roy (Nancy) Olson, Litchfield, Minn.; and Mrs. LeRoy (Margaret) Woods, Garden City; one sister, Miss Lena Boldes, Webster; one brother, Harold Boldes, Albuquerque, N.M.; and five grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by one brother.
Pallbearers will be John Brokaw, Michael Marx, James Marx, Sigurd Knudsen, Lenny Plepp and Louis Machmiller.
Aberdeen American News, Aberdeen, Brown, South Dakota, Sunday January 4, 1976, p30 c2
Bertha was my maternal grandmother, the daughter of George and Freida. I never knew her because she passed before I was born, but many many times I have wished I had known her. She was a teacher and a librarian, wife of Leo and mother to Nancy, Robert, and Margaret. In high school when my mom would have Shakespeare to read, Grandma would read it to her while Mom did chores, because if her mother read it, Mom could understand. She was a great cook, by all accounts, and she was an enormously wise woman who taught my mom a lot, and my mom has in turn taught it all to me. I love you Grandma∼Mrs. Clemen
BRISTOL – Services for Mrs. Leo (Bertha) Clemen, 75, longtime Bristol resident, will be 10:30 a.m. Monday, Jan. 5, at St. Anthony's Catholic church, Bristol, with the Rev. Paul Offerman officiating.
Burial will be in the Bristol Catholic cemetery. Mohs Funeral Service, Webster, is in charge of arrangements.
She died Friday at her home of an apparent heart attack.
A wake service will be held at 8 p.m. Sunday at the church.
Bertha Boldes was born April 7, 1900 in Sioux City, Iowa. She married Leo Clemen May 28, 1927 at Bristol. She served as Librarian in Bristol from 1950 to 1961. She was a charter member of the Octavo Study Club.
Survivors include her husband, one son, Robert, Minneapolis, Minn.; two daughters, Mrs. Roy (Nancy) Olson, Litchfield, Minn.; and Mrs. LeRoy (Margaret) Woods, Garden City; one sister, Miss Lena Boldes, Webster; one brother, Harold Boldes, Albuquerque, N.M.; and five grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by one brother.
Pallbearers will be John Brokaw, Michael Marx, James Marx, Sigurd Knudsen, Lenny Plepp and Louis Machmiller.
Aberdeen American News, Aberdeen, Brown, South Dakota, Sunday January 4, 1976, p30 c2
BRISTOL – Services for Mrs. Leo (Bertha) Clemen, 75, longtime Bristol resident, will be 10:30 a.m. Monday, Jan. 5, at St. Anthony's Catholic church, Bristol, with the Rev. Paul Offerman officiating.
Burial will be in the Bristol Catholic cemetery. Mohs Funeral Service, Webster, is in charge of arrangements.
She died Friday at her home of an apparent heart attack.
A wake service will be held at 8 p.m. Sunday at the church.
Bertha Boldes was born April 7, 1900 in Sioux City, Iowa. She married Leo Clemen May 28, 1927 at Bristol. She served as Librarian in Bristol from 1950 to 1961. She was a charter member of the Octavo Study Club.
Survivors include her husband, one son, Robert, Minneapolis, Minn.; two daughters, Mrs. Roy (Nancy) Olson, Litchfield, Minn.; and Mrs. LeRoy (Margaret) Woods, Garden City; one sister, Miss Lena Boldes, Webster; one brother, Harold Boldes, Albuquerque, N.M.; and five grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by one brother.
Pallbearers will be John Brokaw, Michael Marx, James Marx, Sigurd Knudsen, Lenny Plepp and Louis Machmiller.
Aberdeen American News, Aberdeen, Brown, South Dakota, Sunday January 4, 1976, p30 c2
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