Mass of Christian Burial for 76-year-old Margaret Berberich of Comfrey, Minnesota, will be held on 10:30 a.m. on Monday morning, January 25, 2016, at St. Paul’s Catholic Church in Comfrey. The church is located at 218 Field Street North.
Interment will be in the church cemetery, north of Comfrey on Highway #258.
Visitation will be Sunday, January 24, 2016, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at St. Paul’s Catholic Church, with a parish prayer service at the church at 7:45 p.m. A second visitation will be at the church the day of the funeral from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Sturm Funeral Home is handling the funeral arrangements.
Margaret Ann Berberich was born on January 22, 1940, the daughter of Lester and Selma (Hageman) in Springfield, Minnesota. She grew up on a farm in Stately Township, Brown County. As a child she enjoyed spending overnights with friends on her dad’s land by the falls, which is now Wellner-Hageman Dam. Margaret graduated from Comfrey High School in 1958. After graduation, Margaret moved to New Ulm, Minnesota to work.
On December 28, 1961, she married Skip Berberich at New Ulm Cathedral. Margaret and Skip lived on their farm in Mulligan Township in Brown County for 51 years. In November 2012, they moved to a home in Comfrey.
Margaret worked at Tri-County Co-Op Oil Company in Darfur, Minnesota as a bookkeeper and then worked for 17 years at the Comfrey Public School. She especially enjoyed planning graduation ceremonies for the high school graduates.
Margaret loved spending time with kids and grandkids, entertaining family and friends, gardening, reading, cooking and playing cards. She also enjoyed watching Minnesota Vikings football games, water aerobics and lunch in Darfur with her friends. She loved living on the farm, but didn’t like feeding the chickens and collecting eggs. Margaret insisted on using her broom when helping to sort hogs. She loved watching the crops grow from year-to-year.
Margaret was a member of the Red Hat Club, Springfield Garden Club, St. Paul’s Catholic Church, St. Anne’s Circle and St. Mary’s Society.
Survivors include her husband Leonard “Skip” Berberich, Jr; daughter, Tammy (Jimmy) Jones of Andover, Minnesota; sons. Tim (Lynne) of Sioux Falls, South Dakota and Tom (Michelle) of Springfield; grandchildren, Cacey, Amanda, Shayna, Sarah, Brett and Jason; great-grandson, Sawyer; sister-in-law, Donna; sisters, Karen and Karol; brother-in-law, Bernie and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by parents, Lester and Selma Hageman and son, Tracey.