BERTIE GERMAN BASSETT

BERTIE BOMINNA GERMAN WAS BORN IN MERCER COUNTY, IL MAY 9, 1868. SHE CAME TO IOWA IN 1873 AND WAS MARRIED TO BARDEN BASSETT DECEMBER 25, 1887. THIS UNION WAS BLESSED WITH FIVE CHILDREN. FOUR CHILDREN, HER FATHER, TWO SISTERS, ONE BROTHER AND THE BEREAVED HUSBAND SURVIVE HER AND MOURN THIS GREAT LOSS. SHE DIED DECEMBER 30, 1899. WHEN QUITE YOUNG SHE GAVE HER HEART GO GOD AND UNITED WITH THE CHRISTIAN CHRUCH AND LIVED A FAITHFUL AND CONSISTENT LIFE UNTIL THE END CAME. THE FUNERAL SERVICES WAS CONDUCTED FROM THE FAMILY RESIDENCE, FOUR AND ONE-HALF MILES SOUTH OF KELLERTON, BY REV. C. KNOLL, HER PASTOR J.D. FORYSTHE BEING ABSENT. THE REMAINS WERE LAID TO REST IN THE KELLERTON CEMETERY, SUNDAY DECEMBER 31, 1899. MRS. BASSETT WAS A KIND NEIGHBOR, DEVOTED WIFE, AND LOVING MOTHER, ALWAYS HAVING TIME TO GIVE A KIND WORD TO THOSE WHO WERE IN TROUBLE. SHE WILL BE MISSED IN HER HOME, AND NEIGHBORHOOD BY HUSBAND, CHILDREN AND FRIENDS. WE DO NOT MOURN AS WE WOULD FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NO HOPE. WE SHALL MEET AGAIN WHERE NO PARTING WORD SHALL BE SPOKEN.