contributor: Richard LaBrosse

Special to Press-Gazette  
1933  

OCONTO FALLS, Wis. - Funeral services for Mrs. George Bonner, 56, who died at Columbia Hospital, Sunday evening, following a four months illness were held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the M. E. church, with ministers, the Rev. Hugh Misdall, Milwaukee and E. J. Mathews, Neenah, former local pastors and the present pastor, the Rev. V. T. Nearhoff, officiating, assisted by members of the Order of Eastern Star, who conducted the members rites and had charge of the flowers. Burial was in Woodland cemetery here, pallbearers being B. J. Mc Illree, Marinette; C. W. Carlson, Green Bay; and Hugo and Maux, Boldt; A. J. Peterson and P.J. Kilmer of this city.

The deceased nee: nee, Bertha W. Barenwald, was born in Stettin, Germany, August 8, 1877, came to this country in 1897 and settled with her parents on a farm near Oconto Falls. On April 19, 1899 she was married to George Bonner and they have made their home here since, with the exception of the past year when they had taken up their residence in Milwaukee following a trip to the Pacific coast.

Mr. Bonner held the position of Paper Mill foreman until the shut down of the mill. Survivors are her husband, one son, Lloyd of Ohio; one daughter, Mrs. Ruth Felber, Milwaukee; her father Julius Barenwald, two sisters, Mrs. Amelia Kellermann and Mrs. Martha Janke; two brothers, Charles and Otto Barenwald and two granddaughters, Sally and Janet Felber. A son, George, Jr. preceded her in death in 1922. A large crowd attended the last rites, numbering friends from Milwaukee, Appleton, Neenah, Green Bay and other Wisconsin cities. The deceased was a devout church member and a charter member of the Order of Eastern Star.