Obituary

Mrs Bertha Long, 75, of 431 8th St., died Thursday morning at Weld County Hospital.

She was born Feb. 22, 1888, in a sod house in Darlington, Charles Mix County, South Dakota, the daughter of a South Dakota pioneer family and one of 13 children. Her family later left for Kansas in covered wagons but only made it as far as Norfolk, Neb., where they settled on a farm six miles east of the town.

Bertha Alloway was married to Elmer Howery at Stanton, Neb., in 1904 and seven children were born to them, four of whom are living. Howery was killed in a tractor accident in 1922. In 1924, she was married to Evi Long and he left Nebraska for Colorado in search of work. The family arrived later by car, Sept. 6, 1929, and settled in Greeley. They had one son. Long died April 16, 1936.

Mrs. Long was a member of the First Church of God.

Survivors include five children, Carrol H. Long, who is a policeman with the Greeley Police Department, Mrs. Margaret Belknap, also of Greeley, Dudley H. Howery of Laramie, Wyo., Mrs. Wilma Hardy of Carpenter, Wyo., and Warren P. Howery of Golden; a brother Roy Alloway of Dallas, S.D.; 19 grandchildren; and 23 great grandchildren.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday from Adamson Memorial Chapel with interment at Sunset Memorial Gardens.

Sources

• Greeley Tribune, Greeley, Colorado, Friday, Dec. 13, 1963
• Findagrave.com, Bertha Long