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Mabel Drawbaugh Berger

28 Jun 1882 – 19 Feb 1966

Birth28 Jun 1882
Death19 Feb 1966
CemeteryColumbus Cemetery
Columbus , Platte County , Nebraska , USA
Added byShirley (Bruhn) Martys on 21 Mar 2010
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19730122

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Married to John Berger

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From the web site: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/county/platte/vitals/vitals1909b.html Columbus Journal, July 7, 1909 Miss Mabel Drawbaugh, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Drawbaugh, and John Berger, a well-to-do young farmer residing six miles south of the city, were married in Lincoln last Wednesday, the ceremony being performed by the county judge of Lancaster county. Mr. and Mrs. Berger returned to this city and after July 15 they will be at home to their friends, at their farm home. Miss Drawbaugh is a graduate of the Columbus schools and has been a Platte county teacher for several years. -------------------------- http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~neplatte/vitals/vitals1966.html The Daily Telegram, February 19, 1966 BERGER--Mrs. John Berger of Monroe dies; services Tuesday Mrs. John (Mabel) Berger, 83, Monroe, died this morning in Columbus. She was a former resident of the Bellwood community for many years. Funeral rites will be conducted by the Rev. Lowell Jones at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at Gass Funeral Home and 2 p.m. at First Methodist church. Burial will be in the Columbus cemetery. The body will lie in state at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Monday. Mrs. Berger was born June 28, 1882 at Nira, Ia., the daughter of Joseph and Mollie Hensley Drawbaugh. She came with her family to Bellwood in 1888, then to Columbus in 1896, and was graduated from Columbus high school. She taught rural school in Butler and Platte counties for six years. On June 30, 1909 she was married to John Berger in Lincoln. They lived at Bellwood until his death in March, 1961, after which Mrs. Berger made her home with a daughter at Monroe. She was a member of the Methodist church in Columbus and the family suggests that memorials be directed to that church. Survivors iclude two daughters, Mrs. Everett (Ruth) Haney of Rising City and Mrs. Dan (Mildred) Ditter of Monroe; one brother, Glenn Drawbaugh of Columbus; four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by two brothers, Robert Drawbaugh of Oregon and J.B. of Omaha; one sister, Mrs. Louis (Carrie) Angelous of Butte, Mont.; one half-brother, Ed Drawbaugh, and one half-sister, Mrs. Dorothy Yates, both of Bellwood.

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