Funeral services were held Thursday at 2 p.m. for Mrs. Missouri Virginia Maseberg, 84, who died in an Alexandria hospital Wednesday at 1 a.m. following a long illness. Rites were conducted in the home of Mrs. S. E. Berry by the Rev. Alwin Stokes, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, assisted by the Rev. Russeau, pastor of Union Hill Church, and interment was in Union Hill [Mt. Zion] Cemetery.
Mrs. Maseberg, who resided in the home of Mrs. Berry, her daughter, was the widow of the late Earnest Maseberg, who was lost on the German steamship Elbi in the British Channel January 30, 1895, while returning to the United States after taking his daughter, Chestine Maseberg back to his native Germany. A collision between the Elbi and a British ship resulted in the loss of all aboard the Elbi.
Mrs. Maseberg was a member of the Methodist Church of Atlanta, and had lived in Winn Parish all her life and for the last 20 years with Mrs. Berry.
She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. S. E. Berry, Mrs. Kate Adams of Winnfield, and Mrs. Louise Presley of Palestine, Texas; one stepdaughter, Mrs. Chestine Boom of Dusseldorf, Germany; one son, E. B. Maseberg of Montgomery; 12 grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren.
Pallbearers were her grandsons, Willard Adams of Alexandria, Marshall Berry of Pineville, R. F. Seiler of Monroe, G. K. Phillips of Nederland, Texas, Leon Robert of Winnfield, and O. B. Thompson, Jr., of Shreveport.
Published in The Winnfield News-American, February 3, 1950
Mrs. Maseberg, who resided in the home of Mrs. Berry, her daughter, was the widow of the late Earnest Maseberg, who was lost on the German steamship Elbi in the British Channel January 30, 1895, while returning to the United States after taking his daughter, Chestine Maseberg back to his native Germany. A collision between the Elbi and a British ship resulted in the loss of all aboard the Elbi.
Mrs. Maseberg was a member of the Methodist Church of Atlanta, and had lived in Winn Parish all her life and for the last 20 years with Mrs. Berry.
She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. S. E. Berry, Mrs. Kate Adams of Winnfield, and Mrs. Louise Presley of Palestine, Texas; one stepdaughter, Mrs. Chestine Boom of Dusseldorf, Germany; one son, E. B. Maseberg of Montgomery; 12 grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren.
Pallbearers were her grandsons, Willard Adams of Alexandria, Marshall Berry of Pineville, R. F. Seiler of Monroe, G. K. Phillips of Nederland, Texas, Leon Robert of Winnfield, and O. B. Thompson, Jr., of Shreveport.
Published in The Winnfield News-American, February 3, 1950
Funeral services were held Thursday at 2 p.m. for Mrs. Missouri Virginia Maseberg, 84, who died in an Alexandria hospital Wednesday at 1 a.m. following a long illness. Rites were conducted in the home of Mrs. S. E. Berry by the Rev. Alwin Stokes, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, assisted by the Rev. Russeau, pastor of Union Hill Church, and interment was in Union Hill [Mt. Zion] Cemetery.
Mrs. Maseberg, who resided in the home of Mrs. Berry, her daughter, was the widow of the late Earnest Maseberg, who was lost on the German steamship Elbi in the British Channel January 30, 1895, while returning to the United States after taking his daughter, Chestine Maseberg back to his native Germany. A collision between the Elbi and a British ship resulted in the loss of all aboard the Elbi.
Mrs. Maseberg was a member of the Methodist Church of Atlanta, and had lived in Winn Parish all her life and for the last 20 years with Mrs. Berry.
She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. S. E. Berry, Mrs. Kate Adams of Winnfield, and Mrs. Louise Presley of Palestine, Texas; one stepdaughter, Mrs. Chestine Boom of Dusseldorf, Germany; one son, E. B. Maseberg of Montgomery; 12 grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren.
Pallbearers were her grandsons, Willard Adams of Alexandria, Marshall Berry of Pineville, R. F. Seiler of Monroe, G. K. Phillips of Nederland, Texas, Leon Robert of Winnfield, and O. B. Thompson, Jr., of Shreveport.
Published in The Winnfield News-American, February 3, 1950
Mrs. Maseberg, who resided in the home of Mrs. Berry, her daughter, was the widow of the late Earnest Maseberg, who was lost on the German steamship Elbi in the British Channel January 30, 1895, while returning to the United States after taking his daughter, Chestine Maseberg back to his native Germany. A collision between the Elbi and a British ship resulted in the loss of all aboard the Elbi.
Mrs. Maseberg was a member of the Methodist Church of Atlanta, and had lived in Winn Parish all her life and for the last 20 years with Mrs. Berry.
She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. S. E. Berry, Mrs. Kate Adams of Winnfield, and Mrs. Louise Presley of Palestine, Texas; one stepdaughter, Mrs. Chestine Boom of Dusseldorf, Germany; one son, E. B. Maseberg of Montgomery; 12 grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren.
Pallbearers were her grandsons, Willard Adams of Alexandria, Marshall Berry of Pineville, R. F. Seiler of Monroe, G. K. Phillips of Nederland, Texas, Leon Robert of Winnfield, and O. B. Thompson, Jr., of Shreveport.
Published in The Winnfield News-American, February 3, 1950
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