Submitted by: Dan Rich

Bertha M. Gour

May 5, 1915 - Dec. 9, 1995

South Bend Tribune 12/10/1995

GRANGER - Bertha M. Gour, 80, of 12432 Anderson Circle, died at 12:50 a.m. Saturday in Memorial Hospital, South Bend. Mrs. Gour was born May 5, 1915, in Logansport and lived in this area most of her life.

On Sept. 1935, in Mishawaka, as Bertha M. Shaffer, she married Olivern F. Gour. He died Jan. 12, 1961. On Jan. 19, 1963, she married Phillias L. Gour. He died Jan. 1, 1982. Surviving are two daughters, Natalia Williams of Granger and Beverly Krause of Mishawaka; two stepdaughters, Edna ''Jackie'' Guerra of South Bend and Betty Fonseca of Frost, Texas; two sons, Oliver F. of Goleta, Calif., and Jacob H. of Mishawaka; 12 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; three great-great-grandchildren; and a brother, John Shaffer of Cudahy, Wis.

Services will be at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday in Bubb Funeral Chapel North, 3910 N. Main St., Mishawaka. Burial will be in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Osceola. Friends may call from 3 to 8 p.m. Monday in the funeral home.