Book 2 - Nathan, Amy, Madison and Ethan Berga

every week and she says I can read hers. Be sure to save the Elma papers though. I got
the papers you sent me, and was glad to get them. I suppose you heard about Mr. Brewer
of Elma being killed in the auto accident. I read it in the Tacoma Tribune. How is Lionel
Have you seen any of the Lemans lately. I saw about Lionel in the Shelton paper
last week. I hadn’t seen the last one yet but Mrs.Westfall got it so I’ll see it today.
Albert Ellison’s Testimony
Verna died one year later,
August 5, 1943 81 in the Lake
View Sanitarium in Elma,
Washington. She was 32; and
due to her illness, she never
married. Tony was given leave
from the military base in Swan
Island on November 10, 1943
for seven days, although the
funeral had passed. Verna was
buried in Shelton Memorial
Cemetery. 82,83
Nettie did not take her children
to church; her faith lost
during her youth. She had married
an Irish-Canadian, who was reared in a home with
a Catholic father, and a Presbyterian mother, both attending
their own churches on Sunday. Albert did not
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care for any church and was
hostile to the faith. When his
three children were saved at the
Union Gospel Mission’s tent
revival in the late 30’s; Albert
was so angry that he left the
house for a few days to “blow
off steam.” Once he returned,
he refused to talk about it; he
thought that his children had
lost their mind. 70 Yet, his son,
Tony, continued to pray for
his father and mother, and the
tree siblings only strengthened
their new faith. Tony remembers,
“My dad lived a hard life;
he rejected the Lord all his life; raised in a logging
camp – he went to dances every Saturday night; and
lived rough. When his children got saved, why, he