Bernice Elvira Kolb

Notes:

Cass City Chronicle
July 7, 1939
Local Happenings
Page Four

Mrs. Iva WISNEWSKI and Mrs. Bernice KLEINSCHMIDT, both of Detroit, spent the first of the week with their mother, Mrs. George Kolb, in Cass City and their aunt, Mrs. A. Craw, in Bay City. Mrs. KLEINSCHMIDT is at present employed as relief telephone operator and asssitant hostess in the United States Veterans' Hospital in Dearborn, which was erected on a 39-acre plot of which Henry Ford was the donor and which was dedicated on June 20. The hospital building is located at Southfield Road and Outer Drive in Dearborn.

The STRIFFLER-BENKELMAN BROADCAST, dated September 5, 1960, Volume 23, reported that she had retired July 31 from her position with the Veterans' Administration in Dearborn. She planned to spend time with her sister, Mrs. Brueggeman in Philadelphia.

Cass City Chronicle
Thursday, June 16, 1966

Bernice Kleinschmidt Dies in Detroit

Services were held Wednesday from the Wujek Funeral Home, Highland Park, for Bernice Kleinschmidt, also of Highland Park, who died Monday in Detroit Hutzel Hospital after a three month illness. Rev. James K. Hempstead officiated. Burial will be Thursday at 11 a.m. in Elkland Township Cemetery with Reov. Robert Betts officiating.

Mrs. Kleinschmidt, the former Bernice Kolb, was born in St. Joins, Michigan, April 8, 1893. She later married Charles Kleinschmidt who preceded her in death. She was a member of Central Woodward Christian Church.

Surviving are three sisters, Edith ORMES, St. Johns; Iva WISNIEWSKI, Gross Pointe Woods; Elise BRUEGGEMAN, Philadelphia, Pa., and one brother, Harold KOLB, Pontiac.

(Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, Summer 2007)

(Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, Summer 2007)

Family/Spouse: Charles Kleinschmidt. Charles was born before 1894; died after 1940. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]