Bertha Kembery

Burial will be at the Garner Cemetery at Bridgewater. Memorials may be directed to the American Cancer Society.
Bertha Ellen Kembery, the daughter of Joseph Tolbert and Julia Ann (Waters) Maeder, was born on February 12, 1920, southwest of Bridgewater in Cass County, Iowa. Bertha entered eternal rest on June 9, 2009, at Creston Nursing and Rehabilitation at the age of eighty-nine years, three months, and twenty-eight days.
Bertha attended country school in Cass County and graduated from Corning High School in 1937 with a Normal Training Certificate. She taught in a one room school house in Adair County for two years. On May 25, 1940, Bertha married Maurice Rollan Kembery in Winterset. One daughter was born to this union.
Bertha was a farm wife and helped in the fields. She cooked for hired help and carpenters as they put up every building on the farm. In 1990, Bertha and Maurice sold the farm and moved to Creston.
Bertha was a member of Holy Spirit Catholic Church. She wintered in Florida the last four years. Bertha crocheted over one hundred afghans and gave most of them away. She also liked to play cards.
Left to cherish Berthas memory is her daughter, Connie Maynes of Beachwood, NJ; her brother, Vern Maeder, Creston; her sisters: Alice Lents, Greenfield; and Mary Ann Johnson, Creston; her sisters-in-law: Veronica Maeder, Greenfield; and Betty Maeder, Creston; and numerous nieces, nephews, and other relatives.
Preceding Bertha in death were her parents; her husband, Maurice in 2002; three brothers: Bert, Jack and Earl Maeder; one sister, Ilene Maeder; one sister-in-law, Barbara Maeder; and two brothers-in-law: Melvin Lents and Richard Johnson.