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Bernice Cecelia <I>Wagstaff</I> Billger

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Bernice Cecelia Wagstaff Billger

Birth
Monongahela, Washington County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
Feb 1955 (aged 77–78)
Athens, Athens County, Ohio, USA
Burial
New Hampshire, Auglaize County, Ohio, USA Add to Map
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Mrs. James Billger

LAKEVIEW - Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Van Horn Funeral Home here for Mrs. Bernice Billger, 78, wife of James Billger, Chillicothe, who died Saturday in a hospital at Athens where she had been a patient a year.

A native of Monongahela, Pa., she had lived in Wapakoneta and New Hampshire before moving to Chillicothe. She was married June 15, 1893, to James Billger, who survives.

Also surviving are five sons, Albert, Dayton, Harry, Celina, Forest and Frank, California, Capt. James, Jr., with the U.S. Air Force in Germany; four daughters, Mrs. Ralph Rigg, Dayton, Mrs. Ray Taylor, Torrance, Calif., Mrs. John Ridenour, Wapakoneta, Mrs. James Caldwell, Kingston; 20 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Lloyd McKee, Fort Wayne, and Mrs. A. L. Leigh, Dayton.

Two sons, Emerson and Fred, were killed during World War II, and Harvey, was fatally injured in an automobile accident several years ago.

The body will remain in the Van Horn Funeral Home. The Rev. C. D. Landes will officiate and burial will be in Walnut Hill Cemetery.

(published in The Lima News, Monday, February 28, 1955, page 2)

Mrs. James Billger

LAKEVIEW - Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Van Horn Funeral Home here for Mrs. Bernice Billger, 78, wife of James Billger, Chillicothe, who died Saturday in a hospital at Athens where she had been a patient a year.

A native of Monongahela, Pa., she had lived in Wapakoneta and New Hampshire before moving to Chillicothe. She was married June 15, 1893, to James Billger, who survives.

Also surviving are five sons, Albert, Dayton, Harry, Celina, Forest and Frank, California, Capt. James, Jr., with the U.S. Air Force in Germany; four daughters, Mrs. Ralph Rigg, Dayton, Mrs. Ray Taylor, Torrance, Calif., Mrs. John Ridenour, Wapakoneta, Mrs. James Caldwell, Kingston; 20 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Lloyd McKee, Fort Wayne, and Mrs. A. L. Leigh, Dayton.

Two sons, Emerson and Fred, were killed during World War II, and Harvey, was fatally injured in an automobile accident several years ago.

The body will remain in the Van Horn Funeral Home. The Rev. C. D. Landes will officiate and burial will be in Walnut Hill Cemetery.

(published in The Lima News, Monday, February 28, 1955, page 2)

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