DR. RICHARD BERGE
Funeral services for Dr. Richard Berge, 79,
of Aurelia, will be 10:30 A.M. Wednesday, April 5, 2006, at the Trinity
Lutheran Church in Alta with Pastor Ted Eilders officiating. Inurnment
will be in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Aurelia. There will be no
visitation. The Redig Funeral Home in Aurelia is in charge of
arrangements.
Richard died Sunday, April 2, 2006, at the
Cherokee Regional Medical Center in Cherokee, Iowa.
Richard Deane Berge was born on May 5, 1926,
the son of Ernest Byron and Laura Christina (Brodale) Berge in Decorah,
Iowa. He was baptized and confirmed at St. Olaf Church in Bode, IA. He
attended Maple Lawn School and graduated from Bode High School in Bode.
Richard then served in the US Air Force in Guam at the end of WWII.
After being discharged from the service, he attended Luther College in
Decorah, IA, for three years before his acceptance into the University
of Iowa College of Medicine. On November 25, 1953, Richard married Anna
Jeanette Larsen in Audubon, Iowa. Richard and Anna lived in Lansing,
Michigan, while he served his one-year internship at Edward Sparrow
Hospital. They then moved to Aurelia in 1955, where he practiced
medicine for the next 35 years. In 1990 the couple moved to Iowa City
where he worked for the Steindler Orthopedic Clinic for five years until
he retired and they returned to Aurelia in 1995.
He was a member of the Trinity Lutheran
Church in Alta and served on the church board, served on the Aurelia
School board, was on the founding board for Sunset Knoll, was a member
of Kiwanis and numerous hospital committees. He loved hunting, fishing,
traveling with family, and enjoyed multiple hobbies.
Preceding Richard in death were his parents,
his father-in-law, Lewis Larsen, and mother-in-law Minna (Raussmusen)
Larsen, and one brother-in-law, Emmert Steen.
Survived by his wife Anna of Aurelia, six
children; Steven and his wife Jean Berge of Iowa City, Beth and her
husband Russell Winterhof of Aurelia, Eric Berge of Cherokee, Joel Berge
of Honolulu, HI, Rebecca and her husband Fred Haberecht of Ft. Collins,
CO, and Dr. Jennifer Berge and her husband Bob Morgan of West
Burlington, IA, and nine grandchildren, Kathryn and Kristine Berge,
Nathan Winterhof, Ehren and his wife Karen Winterhof, and Philip
Winterhof, Hannah and Freddie Haberecht, and Zachary and Lauren Morgan.
Also surviving are two sisters, Phyllis and her husband James Hanson of
Des Moines, and Phelva and James Smith of Chicago, IL, and four
brothers-in-law and a sister-in-law; Dr. Lawrence and Jane Larsen of
Harlan, IA, Neoma Steen of Elk Horn, IA, Dr. Arnold and Dorothy Larsen
of Ft. Collins, CO, Dr. Peter and Inetta Larsen of Des Moines, and Dr.
Phillip and Sandy Larsen of Arden Hills, MN, nieces and nephews and
other relatives and friends.
