Bertha Berry
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Bertha Elizabeth (Wikoff) Berry (1876–1954) was a nurse and the founder of the Berry Hospital in Ekalaka, Montana.
Bertha Wikoff was born in Adams County, Ohio, to a family of French extraction.[1][2] Her parents were Hosea and Anne Belle Wikoff.[3] At age 21 Berry moved with her family to Chandler, Oklahoma Territory.[2]
Marriage
In Oklahoma, Bertha met a sawyer from Colorado, Charles Berry. The two married in 1900 and had three daughters. In 1910 the family moved to Ekalaka in search of lumber, there two more daughters were born.
Education
Berry began studying nursing in 1924, taking a correspondence course in the subject from The Chautauqua School of Nursing.[4]