Leonard Bartling, 87

Leonard Bartling, 87, of the rural Hooper/Washington County area, died April 14, 2001 at Arbor Manor in Fremont.

Funeral services will be 10:30 am on Tuesday, April 17 at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Fremont with the Rev. Timothy Gierke officiating. Interment will be in the Memorial Cemetery.

Leonard Bartling was born May 15, 1913, in Washington County to Herman and Emma (Brandert) Bartling. He was baptized and confirmed in the Salem Lutheran Church of Fontanelle. He graduated from the eighth grade in Washington County and attended Hooper High School.

On Oct. 27, 1935 he married Ruth Moeller in Fremont at Trinity Lutheran Church.

Mr. Bartling worked for several area farmers, including Obert Ruwe, Soren Andersen, and Richard Andersen. He also worked for the Cottonwoods Dairy, east of Fremont.

He began farming on his own in 1937, north of Fremont. Then he farmed north of Ames, then in Washington County in the New England area, and then east of Winslow in the Immanuel area. Mr. Bartling also did custom combining and corn shelling. He was also a Pioneer Seed and a Garst Seed dealer.

Mr. Bartling served as a committeeman for the Washington County ASCS office, and served on the school board of Belle Center in Washington County.

Mr. and Mrs. Bartling was a member of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church of Fremont, and had also been a long-time member of Immanuel Lutheran Church, east of Winslow. He was also a member of the Lutheran Layman’s League.

He is survived by his wife Ruth, three daughters and sons-in-law, Marilyn and Gerald Bohling, Sharon and Louis Thernes, and Donna and John Kriete, all of Hooper, a son Wayne Bartling and family of Fremont, 12 grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren, a brother and sister-in-law, Marvin and Marie Bartling of Fremont, and two sisters-law, Thelma Bartling of Fremont and Mattie Bartling of Tekamah.

He was preceded in death by two brothers, Gilbert and Byron.

Memorials are suggested to the Lutheran Hour.

Ludvigsen Mortuary in Fremont is in charge of arrangements.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Library at Blair Nebraska.~~~