(From: Big Spring Herald, Feb. 15, 1972)
            BERTHA HILLGER DEATH VICTIM

            Mrs. Bertha Lillie Hillger, 80, died Thursday in a local hospital.

            Services are set for 3 p.m. Saturday in the Nalley-Pickle Rosewood
            Chapel with the Rev. Caleb Hildebrand, Wesley United Methodist
            Church, officiating. Burial will be in the Garden City Cemetery.

            Mrs. Hillger was born Nov. 4, 1891, in Bonham. She married B. H.
            Hillger Jan. 10, 1910 at the ranch home near Garden City. She had
            come to Glasscock County in 1909 in a covered wagon from Bonham.
            She was in farming and ranching until she moved to Big Spring in
            1950, shortly after her husband died. She was a member of the
            Wesley United Methodist Church, and had been ill for several years.

            Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Vera Mary Doty, Andrews,
            and Mrs. Eunice Becknell, Mound Valley Kan.: one son, Glen Hillger,
            Garden City, one step-son Lee H. Hillger, Fort Worth; one sister,
            Mrs. J. M. Jordan Andrews; nine grandchildren and four
            great-grandchildren.