Erma E. Neuberger

Erma Neuberger, 98, Bismarck, died September 17, 2024, at Sunset Drive Good Samaritan Society, Mandan, ND. 

A funeral service will be held at 11:00AM, Monday, September 23 at Parkway Funeral Service, 2330 Tyler Parkway, Bismarck. Visitation will begin one hour prior to the service.

Interment at Sunset Memorial Gardens, Bismarck.

Erma was born in Beulah, North Dakota to John and Kathrine Krausz. She married Gordon Neuberger June 19, 1949, in Beulah and moved to Dubuque, Iowa where Gordon was attending Wartburg Theological Seminary. She accompanied Gordon while he served a two-year internship at the Rush Lake, Saskatchewan parish in western Canada which was known as the "little kingdom" consisting of four congregations and three preaching stations. In 1953, Gordon (Pastor GG) graduated from Wartburg Theological Seminary and along with Erma accepted a call to Yellow Grass, Saskatchewan, which consisted of three congregations. In 1958 they accepted a call to Immanuel Lutheran Church, New Leipzig. In 1965, they accepted a call to St. Luke Lutheran in Wishek. In 1979 they accepted a call to serve Zion Lutheran Church in Mohall, and in September of 1988 accepted a call to St. Paul Lutheran Church in Center. Pastor GG retired in 1994 and they moved to Bismarck, where they were active Good Shepherd Lutheran Church members. Growing up, mom worked alongside her brothers and sister on their parent’s farm where in addition to routine farm chores she mastered operating her father’s caterpillar tractor used to work the families Knife River bottoms acreage south of Beulah and self-taught, learned how to play the accordion and piano. She had a “green thumb” when it came to caring for her yard, garden and flowers. House painting and wallpaper came naturally to mom and mother nature was never able to drop enough snow to cover her sidewalks and driveways as she manicured them to perfection. She always made sure that family cars were impeccably clean, and you couldn’t miss her license plate “ERM”.

Famous for her “peach” kuchens, visitors could always count on enjoying a slice or two when dropping by and leaving with a frozen kuchen for the road to savor at home. Her sons, grandchildren, nieces and nephews would ask her to make fleischkuekle, strudels and dumplings, and/or pumpkin pie when they visited, and the lady’s coffee club would always compliment her angel-food cake.

Erma is survived by her two sons, Wayne Neuberger, Atlanta, and James Neuberger, Bismarck; granddaughter, Brooke Auston-Williams (Lance), Denver and grandson, Garrett Neuberger, Bismarck; and great-grandchildren, Tatym Williams and Jude Williams, Denver. 

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Gordon (Pastor GG); sister, Amelia Ferguson; brothers, Leonard Krausz and Oscar Krausz.