WWI draft card says Bert was of medium height & build, with grey eyes & light brown hair.
Married Lillie May Van Sant 24 Oct 1900 in Ansley, Nebraska.
They had 7 children, only 3 living beyond infancy: Mildred Irene (1901-1901), David Clarence (1903-1981), Freda Mae Harbison(1904-1987), Kenneth (1907-1907), Nellie Elizabeth Bohlman (1909-1989), Earl (1916-1917) and Dorothy A (1919-1920).
Bert was a farmer most of his life. Moved from Nebraska to Colorado in the 1920's. There he worked for the county (Kit Carson County) running a road grader, and his son David Dittmer ran the crawler tractor that pulled the grader.
Bert died from cancer at age 52
WWI draft card says Bert was of medium height & build, with grey eyes & light brown hair.
Married Lillie May Van Sant 24 Oct 1900 in Ansley, Nebraska.
They had 7 children, only 3 living beyond infancy: Mildred Irene (1901-1901), David Clarence (1903-1981), Freda Mae Harbison(1904-1987), Kenneth (1907-1907), Nellie Elizabeth Bohlman (1909-1989), Earl (1916-1917) and Dorothy A (1919-1920).
Bert was a farmer most of his life. Moved from Nebraska to Colorado in the 1920's. There he worked for the county (Kit Carson County) running a road grader, and his son David Dittmer ran the crawler tractor that pulled the grader.
Bert died from cancer at age 52
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