Obit, mid-Missouri newspaper - 1972: " Father Bestgen Says Mass for Aunt at Tipton" " Funeral services for Miss Gertrude Bestgen were held Wednesday at the St. Andrew's Catholic Church in Tipton with a nephew, the Rev. Jerome Bestgen, of Vienna officiating. Miss Bestgen died Monday at a Kansas City hospital on her 77th birthday (August 2, 1972) anniversary. She had been under care at a Kansas City nursing home for 15 years. She had worked as a housekeeper for priests in the central Missouri area for years. Born at Tipton, she was the last of a family of seven children."