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- From FindAGrave.com:
Married Charles Gerber some time after Alexander died.
Obit from the Clare Sentinel added by Katheleen Jackson:
MRS. BERTHA GERBER DIES IN MT. PLEASANT HOSPITAL JANUARY 20
Former Arthur Township Lady Laid at Rest in Cherry Grove Cemetery
Bertha Louise Gerber was born in Berlin, Germany, February 6, 1873, and died at the Community Hospital in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, January 20,1944, at the age of seventy years, eleven months and seventeen days. In the year 1892 she was united in marriage to Alexander Ruthven and to this union seven, children were born. He preceded her in death in the year 1905. In the year 1907 she was united in marriage to Charles Gerber. To this union one child was born. He preceded her in death three years ago,at which time she left her home in Arthur Township and moved to Mt. Pleasant, where she resided to the time of her death. She was a kind and loving mother, always willing to help others, was a faithful Christian all her life and will be greatly missed by all who knew her.
She leaves to mourn their loss, three daughters, Mrs. May Broberg, of Chicago, Mrs. Bertha Winters, of Detroit, and Mrs. Hilda Myers, of Mt. Pleasant ; four grandchildren, other relatives and a host of friends.
Funeral services were held from the Thurston Funeral Home at Sunday afternoon, January 23. Interment was made in the cemetery beside her husband, in Cherry Grove Cemetery. (Clare Michigan)
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