GREAT BEND – Carl A Bertram, 80, died March 23, 1999, at Central Kansas Medical Center, St. Rose Campus, Great Bend.

He was born March 13, 1919, at Greensburg, the son of John and Josie Wagner Bertram.  A resident of Great Bend since 1951, moving from Pratt, he was an employee of O’Neil Tank Co., and later the president of Sherman Machine Works Inc. 

He was a member of First United Methodist Church, American Legion Argonne Post # 180, and a former board member of Great Bend Petroleum Club, all of Great Bend.  He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II. 

In 1939, he married Velma Smitherman at Pratt.  On Jan. 1, 1954, he married Nancy Goetting at Great Bend.  She survives. 

Other survivors include:  two sons, Ted and Jerry, both of Pratt; three daughters, Rebecca Anderson and Melissa Esfield, both of Great Bend, and Sarah Bertram, Oklahoma City; a sister, Helen Sonnenberg, Sterling Colo.; nine grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. 

He was preceded in death by two brothers, Howard and Donald Bertram. 

Funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Bryant-Christians Funeral Home, Great Bend, with the rev. Dick Near presiding.  Friends may call from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. today and until service time Friday at the funeral home.  Burial will be in Great Bend Cemetery. 

Memorials may be sent to the First United Methodist Church, in care of the funeral home.