Online condolences at www.christiansfuneralhome. Saturday, January 8 at Smoky Hill Cemetery. A graveside service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday, at Christians Funeral Home in Lindsborg. A private family viewing will be held at 5:30 p.m. Memorials should be designated to the Willa Cather Foundation and the McPherson Opera House in care of Christians Funeral Home 103 N. He also is survived by four grandchildren and one great-grandchild. He is survived by two children: Emily Jeanne Bergers Louni of Houston, TX and Matthew Blake Bergers of Minneapolis, MN and one step child: Lorie Meacham of Lawrence, KS. John is survived by a brother, Richard Blake Bergers of San Marino, CA and is predeceased by a half sister, Helen Mae Bergstrom of Omaha, NE. He was instrumental in restoring the McPherson Opera House in McPherson, KS, and contributed significantly to the restoration of the Red Cloud Opera House in Red Cloud, NE as well. John's deep interest in history led him also to restoration work. After studying at the Central School of Arts and Crafts (now known as Central Saint Martins), serving in the British army during World War II, and studying art at the Chelsea School of Art, Berger finally began working as an art critic.

His collection of Cather works can be viewed at the Willa Cather Foundation in Red Cloud, Nebraska. The art critic, novelist, and poet John Berger was born in London in 1926. John was a professional artist who dedicated his life to painting historical and landscape scenes of the Midwest, especially those described so beautifully in the works of renowned author, Willa Cather. He was born to the late John William Bergers (Senior) and Helen Blake Bergers, July 14, 1931, in Omaha, NE. John William Blake Bergers, 79, of Lindsborg, Kansas died Saturday, January 1, 2011.

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