Hilma Johnson Berg

Hilma M. Johnson Berg took her two children to the afternoon matinee performance of  Mr. Bluebeard at the Iroquois Theater. She purchased seats or standing room in the third-floor balcony. The children were thirteen-year-old Olga Victoria Berg and eleven-year-old Victor Lawrence Berg.

Hours later, husband and father Frank A. Berg identified the bodies of his wife and children at Jordan's and Shelden's mortuaries. Olga's body had been found on the stairs in the Iroquois lobby and carried out by police officer Albert F. Simsrott.

Frank Berg had emigrated from Sweden in 1868 with his parents, Victor and Anna Anderson Berg, and Hilma arrived with her parents, Charles and Matilda Johnson in 1882. By 1903 they had been married for nineteen years and Frank worked as a machinist. Olga and Victor attended the Van Vlissingen elementary school. The family lived at 408  W. 111 St. in Chicago's Pullman/Roseland area.

Frank died in 1914 at the Pullman Hospital in Chicago and was buried in the Mt. Greenwood Cemetery alongside his wife and children.