Dolores Marie Berg

Dolores Mischel Berg of Conrad died November 6, 2026, in Conrad, her residence for most of her long life. She was 99 years old. Her memories spanned eras from riding to school during winter months in a horsedrawn sleigh to playing bridge on her laptop computer. She was born to Jerome Mischel and Rose Heiser Mischel on October 27, 1927, on their farm near the badlands of western North Dakota near Dickinson. She met her spouse Christian “Chris” E. Berg while attending college there. They married in 1948 and had their first child the following year. After graduation, they moved to Forest Grove, Oregon while Chris earned his Doctor of Optometry at Pacific University. From there, they moved to Conrad, where Chris started his optometric practice. They expanded their family in Oregon and Montana until there were nine children.

Once her youngest went to school, Dolores opened a successful gift shop and greenhouse business, providing bedding plants and flower arrangements for all occasions. After semi-retirement and wanting a change, they moved to Arizona, then New Mexico in 1989, joining Dolores’ brother Jerry in the motel business. When fully retired in 1996, they returned to Conrad, where they enjoyed their many longtime friends and their grandchildren Blaine and Dawson.

While they had travelled throughout the U.S., including Hawaii and Alaska, retirement meant longer vacations to more distant places such as Italy, France, England, Mexico, and the Greek islands. After Chris died in 2013, Dolores continued traveling. During a trip to Rome and Vatican City, she attended a general audience with Pope Francis. For a lifelong, devout Catholic, it was a profoundly meaningful spiritual experience. Another notable trip—when she was in her late 80s—was an Africa safari where she saw exotic wildlife, traveled by overland jeep, and slept in an eco-lodge. Throughout her life she took great pleasure in cooking, entertaining, dressing with flair, playing bridge, besting Chris at cribbage, dancing, gardening, reading (especially in her later years) and telling dirty jokes.

Dolores is survived by her children, Laura (Bill), Scott, Michele, Michael (Karen), Karen, Kathy, Brian (Carrie), Tim, Chris (Jackie); sister, Fran Kahler; brother, Ken Mischel; grandchildren, Shane, Ashlee, Blaine (Michele), Zeb, Dawson (Keegan), Bridger, Cassidy, and step grandson Simon; great-grandchildren, Serena and Matthew; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Thanks to staff at the Logan Health Clinic and Horizon Lodge.

A funeral mass will be held on Friday, November 13, at 2:00 pm at St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Conrad.