Hazel Marie Weis
b. 4 March 1896, d. 18 August 1972
- Father: Charles Weis b. circa 1860, d. 26 March 1898
- Mother: Amy L. Weaver b. April 1863, d. 9 March 1942
- Hazel Marie Weis was born on 4 March 1896 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota.
- At about the times of their marriages, surname of some of the children of Charles and Amy Weaver Weis began to be recorded as "Wise."
- She married Sigurd Ulrich Bergh on 4 June 1924 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
- The following appeared on 23 September 1924 in The Corsicana Daily Sun: At 7:30 this morning, J. L. Weiler died suddenly in the bath room at his home, 2111 West Fifth avenue. The deceased was 63 years of age in May last and had been a resident here for twenty-four years.
The deceased was a native of Illinois and came from that state to Texas. For a number of years he engaged in the furniture business, but due to ill health he had not been regularly in business for some time.
The deceased was a member of the First Methodist church, and was one of the most devoted and ardent workers in the Sunday school. He organized a men's Bible class in the First Methodist church, and when it became necessary for him to cease teaching the class, in his honor it was named the Weiler Bible class, and still bears his name. The class is now one of the largest Bible classes ever in a Corsicana Sunday school, and will continue to bear the name of the man who organized and who devoted many anxious hours in the labor of building and keeping the class foremost in the good work of the Sabbath school. The deceased was a good and true man in all the essentials of life, and his death, though not unexpected, is sorely regretted by the enrire community.
Surviving the deceased is his wife and three children. The children are George Weiler of Iowa, Harold Weiler of Wichita Falls, and Forrest Weiler of Dallas. Two step-daughters live in Nebraska and Minnesota, and a step-son in Montana. Funeral arrangements will not be announced until these are all heard from. - Sigurd Ulrich Bergh and Hazel Marie Weis appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, at 706 58th Street. Other members of the household included Amy L. Weaver.
- She officially witnessed the death of Amy L. Weaver on 9 March 1942.
- The following appeared on 27 March 1945 in the Nevada State Journal: Joseph Warren Wise, a resident here for two years, and dealer at a Reno club, died yesterday at his home. He was 64 years old, and a native of Illinois. [:C:R] Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Grace Wise of Reno, a son, Howard Wise of Tacoma, Wash., and two sisters, May and Hope [sic] Wise, of Minneapolis.
Funeral arrangements will be announced by the Ross-Burke Co. - The following appeared on 16 November 1946 in the Lincoln Evening Journal: Mr. and Mrs. Sigurd Begh of Omaha are in Lincoln for the football week end and to visit their daughter, Miss Amy Jo Bergh, who is a freshman at the University of Nebraska.
- Hazel Marie Weis died on 18 August 1972 at age 76.
- Sigurd Ulrich Bergh became a widower at her death.
- She was interred at Evergreen Memorial Park Cemetery, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska.
- The following appeared on 21 August 1972 in the Omaha World-Herald: [Died] Hazel Marie Bergh, 706 N. 58th St. Mrs. Bergh is survived by her husband, Sigurd U. Bergh; daughters, Mrs. Philip V. (Amy Jo) Whiting, Omaha, and Mrs. Richard C. (Marilyn) Nichols, Pittsburgh, Pa; and four grandchildren. Services, 2 p.m. Tuesday, at Dundee Presbyterian Church. Crosby-Burket Colonial Chapel, 11902 W. Center Rd.
- The following appeared on 29 May 1980 in the Omaha World-Herald: Funeral services for Sigurd Bergh, former editor of the Northwestern BEll Telephone Co. magazine, will be held at 3:30 p.m. Friday at Crosby-Kunold-Burket Colonial Chapel.
Bergh, 94, of 224 S. 84th St., died Tuesday. He had suffered from asthma, said Philip Whiting, his son-in-law.
Bergh, editor of the monthly magazine for 27 years, graduated in 1908 from St. Olaf College of Northfield, Minn., and was with The Associated Press in San Francisco in 1916-17.
For 18 years after his retirement in 1950, Bergh edited the Shrine Tangier Temple magazine and was involved with Travelers Health magazine, Whiting said.
He was an elder of Dundee Presbyterian Church, served as president of the Omaha Advertising Club and was active in the Masons and the Shrine, Whiting said.
Bergh was preceded in death by his wife, Hazel Wise Bergh, a former editor for the Minneapolis Tribune and a weekly Minneapolis entertainment guide.
Survivors include two daughters, Amy Jo Whiting of Omaha and Pokey Nichols of Birmingham, Mich., and four grandchildren.
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