PERRYVILLE -- Funeral Mass for Olitha C. Berkbigler of Perryville will be held at 11 a.m. today at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church. The Rev. Kevin Fausz will officiate. Burial will be in St. Joseph Cemetery at Highland.
Friends may call at Young and Sons Funeral Home from 6:30-10:45 a.m. today.
Berkbigler, 80, died Tuesday, March 16, 1999, at Perry County Memorial Hospital.
She was born July 28, 1918, in Perry County, daughter of Adolph and Regina Cissell Pingel. She and Henry Berkbigler were married April 14, 1941. He died Sept. 18, 1984.
Berkbigler was a member of St. Vincent's Church.
Survivors include a son, Clyde Berkbigler of Perryville; three daughters, Ruby Ruch of Oak Ridge, Doris Richardet and Hazel Besand of Perryville; two sisters, Mathilda Queathem of St. Charles, Merle Cissell of Perryville; and 13 grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by two brothers and a sister.
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