Gertrud Elsasser Bacon Obituary
We are sad to announce that on April 14, 2025, Gertrud Elsasser Bacon of Hopkinton, Massachusetts passed away. Family and friends are welcome to leave their condolences on this memorial page and share them with the family.
As we bid Gertrud Elsasser farewell, let us not mourn the absence of her physical form, but rather celebrate the essence of her spirit that lingers in the spaces between moments. For Gertrud Elsasser is not truly gone, but merely transformed, her energy intertwined with the fabric of the universe itself, forever dancing among the stars.
She was loved and cherished by many people including: her parents, Frida Wagner and Gerhard Elsäßer (Elsaesser); her children, Sara Elsa-Beech (Jennifer Balfour) of Somerville and David F. Bacon (Karen); her grandchildren, Calder, Rosalind and Miles; and her siblings, Renate Lumpp, Gerhard (Christel), Martin, Herman, Albrecht, Wilhelm and Konrad Elsaesser.