Priscilla Christensen Bergren

Priscilla and Walter Bergren

Priscilla Bergren at Mrs. Parker Cottage

Priscilla Bergren at the Trudeau Sanatorium.

Priscilla Bergren

A brick at the Saranac Laboratory has been dedicated in the name of Priscilla Christensen Bergren by Priscilla Goss.

Born: August 30, 1906

Died: July 9, 1995

Married: Walter Bergren

Children:

Chiefly known for: See Louis Mackay Album

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Priscilla Bergren in front of the Christy Mathewson Cottage on Park Avenue.

Adirondack Daily Enterprise, July 11, 1995

Priscilla Bergren

SARANAC LAKE — Priscilla Bergren, 88, formerly of 20 Church St., Saranac Lake, died Sunday, July 9, 1995 at Uihlein Mercy Center in Lake Placid, where she had resided since 1992.

Born Aug. 30, 1906 in Brooklyn, she was a daughter of Nelson and Mary (Smith) Christensen.

In 1929, she moved to Saranac Lake from Perth Amboy, N.J. to cure from tuberculosis. She returned to Perth Amboy in 1933.

She was married to Walter Bergren. He died Dec. 17, 1940. Mrs. Bergren returned to Saranac Lake in 1977.

Survivors include a sister-in-law, Mrs. Edna Gamble of Perth Amboy, N.J.; a niece, Mrs. Joyce Sarnecki of Lanoka Harbor, N.J.; and a nephew, James Gamble of Chalifont, Penn.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11:15 a.m. Thursday at St. Bernard’s Church. Interment will follow in St. Bernard’s cemetery.

Memorial donations may be made to Uihlein Mercy Center in care of the Fortune-Keough Funeral Home, which is in charge of arrangements.

Priscilla Bergren on Broadway