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Portrait of Twila Belle Bersche
In loving memory

Twila Belle Bersche

April 15, 1931 – December 18, 2017
Lived 86 years
Memorial Park Cemetery · Bartlesville, Oklahoma
Love you to the moon and back
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Twila Belle Bersche was born April 15, 1931 in Nardin, OK to Ralph and Veda (Fauchier) Grimsley. She married Duane Leroy Bersche on February 10, 1951 in Blackwell, OK. Twila was a homemaker who loved crafts and making quilts and baby blankets. She enjoyed gardening and had fond memories of being raised on a farm. Twila is survived by her husband Duane Bersche of Bartlesville; two sons, Greg Bersche and wife Kimberly of Skiatook and Mark Duane Bersche and Lori Hutson of Barnsdall; two daughters, Vickie and husband Craig Sprague of Bartlesville and Gail and husband Rick Barringer of Friendswood, TX. She was blessed with six grandchildren: Kyle, Sondra, Amanda, Jeremy, Kendra, and Jake along with eight great-grandchildren Tyler, Kaylee, Paisley, Rowan, Jamison, Lilly, Barrett, and Axton. Twila is also survived by her brother LeRoy Grimsley, sister Dorothy Brown, numerous nieces, nephews, other relatives and many friends. Twila was preceded in death by her parents and sister, Betty Jo Nugen.

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1931
Born April 15
1939
Twila was 8 when "Gone with the Wind" premiered in Atlanta
1941
Twila was 10 when the United States entered World War II
1959
Twila was 28 when Barbie made her debut
1969
Twila was 38 when the Woodstock music festival opened
1971
Twila was 40 when Walt Disney World opened in Florida
1989
Twila was 58 when "The Simpsons" debuted as a series
1994
Twila was 63 when "Friends" premiered
2001
Twila was 70 when Apple introduced the iPod
2015
Twila was 84 when "Hamilton" opened on Broadway
2017
Passed away December 18, age 86
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