HARRY AND BLANCHE [Lloyd] BERGER
Blanche (Lloyd) Berger was born January 19, 1906, to Mr. and Mrs.
William Lloyd and passed away at the Creighton hospital on December
20, 1971.
[pg 204 PHOTO Mr. and Mrs. Harry [Blanche Lloyd] Berger]
On March 26, 1920, she was married to Harry Berger at the Methodist
Church at Creighton, Nebraska. For three years they farmed near
Sparta and did their buying at the old Sparta Store. Then they moved
to a farm north of Winnetoon where they lived for 14 years. Later
they moved south of Verdigre where Harry lived and worked on a farm
for Bill Bruce. When Bill passed away the farm was sold and, as work
was scarce and times hard, Harry went to Seattle, Washington, where
he had two brothers-in-law. There he found work in the shipyards. He
also milked 60-plus cows by hand twice a day.
Harry often times talked of losing all his fingernails from so much
work and told of all the pain.
They lived in Washington for four years and returned to Verdigre
where they lived for 27 years. Harry’s dream was to own his own
home, and, upon returning to Verdigre, he bought the farm on which
Frank and Barbara Maly had lived. Harry and Blanche lived here for
27 years.
On July 1, 1966, Blanche became ill and was hospitalized at the
Lundberg Memorial hospital in Creighton, Nebraska. She then entered
the Creighton Care Centre and remained there until her death in
1971.
Harry remained on the farm even though his health wasn’t good. He
did an outstanding job of raising hogs and commented that he was one
of the first to sell fat hogs at Verdigre when the sale barn was
built. Harry was a great inspiration to his grandson, Jimmy Maly,
and they spent a lot of time together.
Harry and Blanche were blessed with three children: Marjorie, Donna
and Jack; grandchildren: Mrs. Larry (Kathy) Masat, Kenneth Maly, Jim
Maly, Timorhy Woodhead, Mark Woodhead of Tacoma, Washington, Michael
and Mark Berger of Washington, D.C., great-grandchildren Kevin,
Trenton, Kinsey, and Tanner Maly and Jack, Lance and Jason Masat.
Harry passed away in 1975.
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