Funeral services for Elmer E. (Bert) WEINBERG, well known and highly respected farmer of Flowerfield township, will be held at the Haring funeral home Wednesday at 2 p.m. Interment will be made at Riverside cemetery. Deceased had often requested that there be no flowers at his funeral.
He was born in Flowerfield township Aug. 18, 1867, a son of Mr. and Mrs. L. R. WEINBERG and has always lived in the immediate vicinity with exception of two years in Three Rivers.
On Christmas day 1895, he was married to Lottie GEMBERLING who survives, and most of their married life has been spent on the same farm. He was an honest energetic farmer and considered one of the most successful in that township.
Besides his wife he is survived by one son, Burnham, also of Flowerfield township and a number of nieces and nephews.
Second clipping:
Elmer E. WEINBERG, west Moorepark, despondent over approaching blindness.
Elmer Egbert WEINBERG, about 70, took his life by asphyxiation at his farm home two miles west and south of Moorepark this morning. Mr. WEINBERG had recently become blind in one eye and physicians had given him little hope of saving the sight of his remaining eye. In his despondency over his apparent fate, he left the house this morning at about six o'clock telling his wife he intended to do some work around the farm. He had held a farm sale but little over a week ago.
Ted Brown, a neighbor who had a pair of horses and some equipment he had left at Weinberg's place after purchase, found his body in his car with the motor running. Mr. WEINBERG had attached a length of hose to the exhaust pipe, looped it through a rear window, started the motor and climbed into the rear seat. Brown found the body approximately an hour to an hour and a half after WEINBERG left the house, and investigated when he heard the car motor running for a length of time. Physicians pronounced WEINBERG dead on arrival in answer to Brown's call.
Mrs. WEINBERG is said to be very deaf and was unable to hear the car motor.
Deputy Sheriff Ed. W. Drumm and Coroner William P. Balch investigated. There will be no inquest.
Note: date of death April 12, 1943
Note: Original transcription by Carole Lynn Mohney Carr from clippings from the "Three Rivers Commerical-News", which serves the St. Joseph Co, Michigan area, supplied by the Three Rivers Library. Transcriptions were located online at the St. Joseph County, MI message board and transcribed for the GFA by Ila Miller.
Created on ... June 04, 2003