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Bertha Zapp HS diploma |

Bertha Zapp
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Bertha Zapp 1903 Heroic Act. China is
situated at the Shelby and Madison townships line. |
Bertha Zapp Teaching Certificate June 1904 |

Bertha Zapp driving buggy |
Bertha
was born in 1881, one of six children born to Christina Bumen and
Nicholas Zapp in the scenic river town of Madison Indiana. Bertha's
mother, Christina was soft spoken and just a sweet woman that
everyone adored. Nicholas was a strong hard-working German man that
farmed for a living. Growing up on Michigan Road in Madison, life
was good for Bertha. She was a remarkable woman, graduating high
school with honors, she taught school in Madison Indiana. (See "A
Heroic Act".) Not long after she began teaching, she met a doctor in
Madison who moved to work in the hospital in Logansport, Indiana.
Bertha traveled to the Logansport Hospital to train to be a nurse.
During this time, she worked as a "candy striper". After working
there for a short time, she missed Joe and returned to Madison to
marry him. (as told to me in 2001 by Mary Louise Werner, Bertha's
daughter)