[1] In Roodhouse, her interest in temperance work began by a chance invitation to attend a meeting of the local W.C.T.U.
After she married Charles A. Burger (1862–1936)[3] on September 1, 1886, she moved with her husband to Clark, Randolph County, Missouri, and became actively involved in every feature of the temperance cause.
[1] In 1910, as a representative of the World's W.C.T.U.,[5] Burger went to Mexico and succeeded in interesting President Porfirio Díaz in temperance work to the extent of securing an appropriation of money to supplement the contribution of the W.C.T.U.
Burger appeared before the officials of 18 women's organizations and church associations and told them of the freedom with which coal tar products were sold and endorsed the Hagenow bill.
[2] Suffering from a heart condition for a decade, Nelle G. Burger died December 24, 1957, at Burge Hospital in Springfield, Missouri.