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Juergen Bertram, 73
On Friday, Oct. 26, 2018, at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Dr. Juergen Bertram hung up his stethoscope and entered into his eternal rest.
He was born on March 5, 1945, to Hanno and Liselotte Bertram in Austria. He was raised in Nuremberg, Germany. After receiving his medical degree, he moved to the United States. He did an oncology/hematology fellowship at Johns Hopkins University and devoted the rest of his life to the treatment of cancer patients. He was a professor of medicine at the University of Southern California Los Angeles. He started the North Idaho Cancer Center in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and was the medical director for many years. He also practiced in Louisville, Ky., Poplar Bluff, Mo., Kennett, Mo., Lewiston, Md., and Jefferson City, Mo.
In 2001, he became a United States citizen. In 2010, Dr. Bertram started a new career as a Locums Tenum physician, traveling to oncology practices across the United States. He worked in Vermont, Oregon, California, Washington, North and South Dakota and Idaho. He finished his last assignment in July 2018.
On Nov. 14, 2003, he married his wife, Phyllis, in Las Vegas, Nev. She survives at the home in Jefferson City.
He is also survived by one sister, Lotte Erwin and one brother, Hanno Bertram, both of Germany; one niece, Birigite Erwin and one nephew, Hulger Erwin, both of Germany; two daughters by marriage, Becca (Justin) Beaird of Harviell, Mo., and Pam (Travis) Willis of Ellsinore, Mo.; four grandchildren, Jordan and Anna Willis of Ellsinore, and Colby and Nora Beaird of Harviell; and his mother-in-law, Nora Ellen Morris of West Plains, Mo.
He is preceded in death by his parents and his brother-in-law, Deitmer Erwin.
Services were held in November. In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be made to UCAN-United Cancer Assistance Network, 3100 Oak Grove Road, Poplar Bluff, MO 63901. This was one of Dr. Bertram’s favorite organizations to support cancer patients when he practiced in Poplar Bluff.