August 1, 1906 –  November 18, 2005  SHERMAN- Graveside services for Bertha Bell Rathke, age 99, will be 1:00 P.M. Monday, November 21, 2005 at Cedarlawn Memorial Park in Sherman directed by Meador Funeral Home of Whitesboro.
Mrs. Rahtke passed away Friday, November 18, 2005 at Hilltop Haven Nursing Home in Gunter.

She was born August 1, 1906 in Iowa Park, Texas to Ben F. and Esther Taylor. She married John E. Rathke October 20, 1929 in Wichita Falls, Texas. She graduated high school from Iowa Park, attended Mary Hardin Baylor College in Belton. She worked as a kindergarten school teacher in Wichita Falls and as a store clerk at Prices Department Store in Sherman for 20 years and was also a homemaker. She was a member of the Grace Lutheran Church in Sherman.

Survivors include 2 daughters, Jean Harper and husband J.E. of Whitesboro and Nancy King of Wichita Falls; 5 Grandchildren, Sherry Foster of Wichita Falls, Karen Cadman of Archer City, Kathy Beck of Wichita Falls, Jill Darland of Patterson, MO, Carla White of Flower Mound; 12 Great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, John Rathke; parents, John & Ester Taylor; brothers, Clark, Andy, Booster and Hoyt Taylor and sisters, Edith Harmon and Inez Taylor.