Florentina Pertzborn

Madison- Florentina Frances Pertzborn (Ballweg), 91, died Friday, July 25, 2014, at Saint Mary's Care Center. She was born in Roxbury, Wisconsin, on March 11, 1923 to Edward and Clara (Breunig) Ballweg.
Florentina became head of her first household at 13, helping her father raise her younger brothers after her mother died. On February 21, 1946 she married Robert A. Pertzborn of Martinsville. They began their lives together farming near Cottage Grove and later farmed near Springfield Corners. She was a past member of St. Martin's Catholic Church and the Christian Mothers' Society and was currently a member of St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church. Her passions were caring for her family, tending her beautiful flower and vegetable gardens, and enjoying music, including learning to play the accordion and harmonica. She was a nurturing wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.
She is survived by her five daughters, JoAnn (LaVerne) Theis, Verona; Jean Kaminski, Mesa, Arizona; Mary (David Jenkins), Middleton; Betty (Gary) Frey, Prairie du Sac, and Judy (Dean) Kasten, Verona; nine grandchildren, Becky (Noel) Lambert, Scott (Marcy) Theis, Troy (Jason Rush) Theis, Ryan (Jenny) Theis, Tara (Rick) Skurulsky, Laila (Court) Drescher, Jennifer (Foster) Reif, Shannon (Mike) Johnson, and Kyle Kasten; 15 1/2 great-grandchildren, Tyler, Ayden, Carter, Caleb, and Colby Theis; Sarah Lambert; Ella, Samuel, Anna and Addie Drescher; Cora, Emery and Elise Skurulsky; Sheldon and Sadie Reif; baby boy Johnson, and one brother, Marvin Ballweg, Cross Plains. She is also survived by many in-laws, nieces and nephews. In addition to her parents and husband, Florentina was preceded in death by five brothers, Sylvanus, Mellitus, Edward, Raymond and Bernard Ballweg, and three sisters, Marina Nolden, Herlindus Kuehn, and Henrietta Kuehn, and several in-laws.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held Thursday, July 31, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, 602 Everglade Drive, Madison. Father Bart Timmerman will officiate. Burial will be in St. Martin's Catholic Cemetery, Martinsville. Friends may call from 4:00 until 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, July 30, 2014 at the Winn Funeral Home, Waunakee, and at the church on Thursday from 10 a.m. until the service.

The family would like to extend a special thank you to all the staff at Agrace Hospice and St. Mary's Care Center. Please share your memories at www.cressfuneralservicecom .


I thought that you would like to know
That someone's thoughts go where you go,
That someone never can forget
The hours we spent since first we met,
That life is richer, sweeter by far,
For such a sweetheart as you are,
And now my constant prayer will be
That God may keep you safe for me.

--Verse Florentina received from Robert during World War II.