Bertha Schmidt

Bertha Schmidt, 87, Mandan, died Oct. 26, 2011, at the Mandan Living Center. Mass of Christian burial will be held at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 29, at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Mandan, with the Rev. Shane Campbell as celebrant. Burial will be at Mandan Union Cemetery.

Visitation will be held from 3 to 9 p.m. today at Weigel Funeral Home, Mandan, where a parish rosary/vigil begins at 6:30 p.m.

Bertha was born Oct. 16, 1924, to John and Eleanore (Pfau) Frank in Mandan. Bertha married Nick Schmidt on June 4, 1946, in Flasher. She was an elementary school teacher in the rural schools in the St. Gertrude, Raleigh, Lark, Breien and Timmer areas. Bertha was a member of the Homemakers Club and Quilting Club, where she demonstrated her artistic talents in quilting. She also gave them to friends and family and donated them to the senior center. She also enjoyed painting and took classes to explore her talent. She was a weather observer/storm spotter and reporter for many years, along with being a census taker and 4-H leader.

When you visited Bertha, hospitality was important to her - you would never go hungry. She was a wonderful cook and large Sunday dinners were her specialty, which her family enjoyed. Nick and Bertha enjoyed traveling throughout the United States throughout their lives.

Bertha will be deeply missed by her loving family, her daughters, Marilyn Vollmer, Bismarck, Jane (Otto/Tex) Murry, Hastings, Minn., and Bonnie (Mike) Voigt, Menoken; her sons, Dave (Rosanne) Schmidt, Bismarck, Steve (Cheri) Schmidt, Doniphan, Neb., and Dean (Leanne) Schmidt, Mandan; 15 grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; her sisters, Angie Mahrer and Rose Frank, both of Bismarck, and Tillie (Fedelis) Tischmak, Mandan; and two sisters-in-law, Sharon Frank, New Salem, and Karen Frank.

Bertha was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Nick; her brothers, Ronnie, Richard (Mae) and Ralph; one son-in-law, Ken Vollmer; and one brother-in-law, Paul Mahrer.

In lieu of flowers, memorials are preferred to St. Alexius Home Health Care or Medcenter One Mandan Living Center.

Go to www.weigelfuneral.com to sign the online guest book and view flower photos.