Alberta Rothe Nielson was born in Southern Alberta, Canada on Black Tuesday. She grew up on a ranch where she learned to saddle horses, drive a team, feed chickens, and milk a cow.
Berta joined the LDS Church when she was 24. She has served as both a stake Relief Society and Primary president.
After raising seven children, she went to college as a 50-year-old grandmother to obtain her engineering bachelor and master degrees. After retiring, Berta served two missions: one at the International Affairs Office in Washington, D.C., and the other in the Hawaii Reserve Office in Laie, Hawaii.
Berta now lives in Salt Lake City where she is concentrating on writing family histories and searching out her kindred dead for temple blessings.
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