Bertha Madeline Perkins Britton
1870–1938 (age 68)
Biography
Bertha Madeline Perkins Britton, born in 1870, devoted her life to nurturing relationships across Surry Village, where people came to depend on her kindness and steady counsel. Her gifts for hospitality and encouragement helped sustain the rhythms of village life through changing times.
When she passed in 1938, the community she loved remembered her gentle patience, and she now rests with family in Surry Village Cemetery, a quiet reminder of a life of service.