Bertha Page

BERTHA PAGE

Monticello

Bertha Ione Page, 99, passed away Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015, at UnityPoint Hospice, Cedar Rapids, following a lingering illness. Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, at First Presbyterian Church,

Monticello, with interment in Oakwood Cemetery. Friends may call after 9:30 a.m. Saturday at the church. The Rev. Al Polito will officiate at the services. Goettsch Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Thoughts, memories and condolences may be left at www.goettschonline.com.

Memorials may be made to UnityPoint Hospice in Cedar Rapids.

Surviving is her daughter, Brenda (Gary) Hare, Cedar Rapids.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, LeRoy, in 1998; and her sister, Zeola Irene Rogers.

Bertha Ione Burlingham was born Feb. 23, 1916, the daughter of Frank and Mamie (Head) Burlingham, at her parents' rural Anamosa, Iowa, farm. Bertha graduated from Monticello Community Schools in 1930 and continued her education at Coe College in Cedar Rapids.

Bertha started her teaching career with 28 students in Frog Hollow School. This was a one-room schoolhouse in Jones County near Langworthy that her mother, Mamie, Bertha, and her daughter, Brenda, all attended as children. Bertha taught in both Jones and Linn counties. She retired from teaching in 1982.

Bertha married LeRoy Page on Sept. 14, 1946, at the Little Brown Church, Nashua, Iowa. They enjoyed 51 years together, traveling, delivering Meals on Wheels, working as volunteers at Camp Courageous and donating their time to First Presbyterian Church.

Bertha was a member of the Mayflower NSDAR chapter in Cedar Rapids. She was an avid genealogist and loved spending time with her friends and family.