Died 4 August 1990; Buried at Holy Cross Cemetery, Blair NE

Henry E. Bergschneider, 85

Funeral services for Henry E. Bergschneider, who died August, 1990 at Good Shepherd Home in Blair, will be held at 10:30 Tuesday, August 7 at St. Francis Borgia Catholic Church. The Rosary was recited Monday evening at 7 p.m. Rev. Daniel Galas celebrant.

Henry E. Bergschneider was born on July 27, 1905 at Center, Missouri to Henry John Bergschneider and Mary Rosina Knust I Bergschneider. He graduated from Center, Missouri High School and then attended Missouri College of Engineering, graduating in 1930.

He was employed by the Soil Conservation Service and served in Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas and Nebraska, except for a period when he served in the United States Air Force during World War II. He served from May, 1942 to November 1946 and then in the Reserves from 1946 to 1962.

He married Catherine Agnes Tehan on August 17, 1931. Catherine preceded him in death May 8, 1948 in Hayes, Kansas. He moved to Blair in 1955 and married Irvilla Jones Smith April 11, 1964 and continued to live in Blair, retiring in 1970.

He was a member of St. Francis Borgia Catholic Church, Knights of Columbus and the Blair American Legion.

Henry was preceded in death by his parents; first wife, Catherine; daughter, Mary Margaret Fischer and brother Clarence.

Survivors include his wife, Irvilla, Blair; a daughter, Ann Kathleen Rossi of Stockton, California, grandchildren, Catherine Atchison, David Rossi, Michael Rossi, Steven Rossi, Peter Rossi, Patricia Marvin, Kathleen Fischer, John Fischer and Jeanine Fischer; four brothers, Edward, Los Angeles, California, Vincent, Chickasha, Oklahoma, Fabian of Milton, Florida and Theodore of El Cajon, California, step-daughter, Connie Vaughan, Iowa City, Iowa; two step-sons, David Smith, Boonsboro, Maryland and Jack Smith of Harbor City, California.

Memorials may be paid to the building fund.

Campbell-Aman Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

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