Bertha Belle "Dovie" Seger

Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

Funeral services for Bertha Belle Seger were held on Friday, Sept. 16, 2005, at Wilson Funeral Home, Pond Creek, Okla. Interment followed in Pond Creek Cemetery, Pond Creek, Okla.

Bertha Belle, "Dovie" Seger, 90, of Troy, Ill., was born June 6, 1915, in Pond Creek, Oklahoma to Jasper N. and Mable Brigham, Livingston and died Sunday, Sept. 11, 2005, at Maryville Manor Nursing Home, Maryville, Ill.

Bertha lived in Pond Creek most of her life, until she moved to Troy in 2003 for medical care and to be near her sister. She attended Linville Country School, District 103, and graduated from Pond Creek High School in 1933. She also attended Tonkawa Junior College (now Northern Oklahoma College), Tonkawa, Okla. She was a charter member of the Rose Circle Home Demonstration Club, Friends and Neighbors Club, Sunshine Center and a member of First Christian Church, Pond Creek, Okla., where she was the church pianist for many years.

She was preceded in death by her first husband, Howard Clark McKee in Feb. 1958, and her second husband, Ralph James Seger in Aug. 1993; her parents; a brother, Leslie Merle; and two infant siblings who died at birth.

Surviving are her sister Shirley (Warren) Trekell of Troy, Ill.; five nieces, Jeannie Kohler of Belton, Mo., Shari (Bryce) Renken of Troy, Ill., Merlene (Max) Odenwald of Billings, Okla., Karen (Mike) Dehdari of Flower Mound, Texas, and Mary (Jose) Zepeda of Port Arthur, Texas; a nephew Reid (Diane) Trekell of Baton Rouge, La.; eight great-nieces, and 11 great-nephews.

Memorials were made to First Christian Church of Pond Creek, Okla., Pond Creek Ambulance Fund, or Gateway Hospice, Granite City, Ill.