ALBERT E. BERTLING

JACKSON, Mo. -- Albert E. Bertling, age 77, of Jackson, died Sunday, July 16, 2000, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.

He was born Oct. 20, 1922, in Cape Girardeau, son of Walter and Clara Arnettae Oberbeck Bertling. He and Ally Beth "Shorty" Short were married May 18, 1943, in St. Genevieve, Mo. She passed away Feb. 24, 1986.

Mr. Bertling was a member of Hanover Lutheran Church in Cape Girardeau. He was employed 25 years as a sign erector and estimator for General Sign Co. and was a member of IBEW electrical union local #1 in Cape Girardeau, retiring in 1988.

He served in the U.S. Air Force during World War II from 1942 to 1945.

Mr. Bertling proudly coached in the Jackson Little League Baseball during the early to mid-1950s.

He is survived by a son, Joe "Pete" Bertling of Southaven, Miss.; two daughters, Kathy Brown of De Soto, Mo., and Beth Ann Hall of Jefferson City, Mo.; a brother, George Bertling of Sycamore, Ill.; a sister, Betty Morris of Atoka, Tenn.; five grandchildren; a great-grandchild; two stepgrandchildren; and special friend, Helen Lloyd of Cape Girardeau.

He was preceded in death by two brothers and two sisters.

Visitation will be 4-8 p.m. today at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson.

The funeral service will be held 10 a.m. Tuesday at the funeral chapel, with the Rev. Paul Short and Vicar Mark Rabe officiating. Burial will be at Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Fruitland, Mo.

Expressions of sympathy in the form of memorials may be given to Old Hanover Lutheran Church or Pleasant Hill Cemetery Fund.