Extracted from The Morning Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Thursday, May 12, 1966

MOTT, MRS. BERTHA TREEN

Died at 11:15 p.m. Tuesday at Lane Memorial Hospital. A native of Pearl River County, Miss., she was 77.

Religious services at Welsh Funeral Home at 4 p.m. Thursday, conducted by the Rev. E. D. Bateman. Interment in Roselawn Memorial Park with Eastern Star rites at the graveside.

She was the first home demonstration agent in Louisiana, 1914, in Avoyelles and East Baton Rouge parishes and was principal of the first consolidated school in Mississippi, Oak Grove School, Lamar County, 1911-12. She was a charter member of the League of Women Voters, life member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, member of the Mississippi State College for Women Alumni Association, Istrouma Baptist Church and charter member of Clinton Chapter No. 132, Order of the Eastern Star.

Survivors include five daughters, Mrs. W. M. (Alice A.) Thomason, Ashland, Ky., Mrs. George M. (Tommie) Plovanich and Mrs. Thomas (Elizabeth) Smith, both of Clinton, Mrs. J. B. (Elsie) Zachary and Mrs. Dick (Louise) Smith, both of Baton Rouge; two brothers, J. Paul Treen, New Orleans, and Karl Treen, Harvey, Ill.; two sisters, Mrs. B. B. Forman, Baker, and Mrs. P. E. Lucas, Baton Rouge; 15 grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers are Wesley Forman, Kermit W. Smith, Paul Treen Jr., George M. Plovanich, Dick Smith and Hollie D. McDade.