Bertha (Matheny) Burg

Thursday, November 8, 2001

Bertha (Matheny) Burg

HURST, Texas -- Bertha (Matheny) Burg, 84, died Sunday (Nov. 4, 2001) at Hurst.

She was born Nov. 30, 1916, at Norton, Kan.

On Jan. 30, 1933, she married Albert Burg at Norton. She was a homemaker and a farm wife.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Albert in 1981; four brothers, Kenneth, Keith, Enoch and Cecil Matheny; one sister, Idella Foster; one great-grandson, Caleb James Robinson; and one granddaughter-in-law, Sherry Simpson.

Survivors include two daughters, Elaine Turner and husband, Gary of Hurst, and Eleanor Simpson and husband, Richard of Estes Park, Colo.; one step-daughter, Mabel Ashcraft of Durango, Colo.; one brother, Jess Matheny and wife, Lorraine of Wichita, Kan.; one sister-in-law, Frieda Matheny of Oberlin; four grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.

Services will be Friday, 10:30 a.m., at Pauls Funeral Home in Oberlin. Interment will be at the Oberlin Cemetery.

Visitation is today until 8 p.m., and Friday, 8 a.m. until the time of the service.

Memorials may be given in her name to the Golden Age Center or the United Methodist Church of Oberlin.

Pauls Funeral Home of Oberlin is in charge of the arrangements.