"Princess Golden Shoes"

My husband and I have been working on a mystery for the past several weeks, in connection with a local history book for Suldal in Rogaland. I wonder if anyone could help us solve it. A girl named Berta Gurina Gautesdotter Herabakka was born in Suldal, 17 January 1874, and baptized 1 March. https://media.digitalarkivet.no/view/6351/32840/36 Her parents were Gaute Haavardsen (b. 1837) and Astrid Torstensdotter (b. 1832). She was confirmed in 1888 https://media.digitalarkivet.no/view/6352/32853/24 In the census for 1891, we find her still at home https://www.digitalarkivet.no/census/rural-residence/bf01052940000033 As the story goes, Berta moved to Stavanger and served in the Mauritz home at Sundtastykket. Her looks and pleasing personality led to her becoming engaged to Engelhardt B, who lived at Bergeland. The Bergelands and Berta emigrated, but we have not found out when or where they settled in the USA. On the crossing, Berta befriended a woman named Helga, a widow from Kristiania. When her relationship to Engelhardt and family became unpleasant, Berta broke her engagement and fled to Helga. Berta got a job at a café serving the upper ten. Here she met a wealthy doctor and married him two years later, after having been sent to a finishing school for a while. The bride was dressed in silk and diamonds. The husband did not have to work, so the couple went on a grand tour of Europe. But the husband died, and Berta returned to the US and settled down in her palace near Chicago. Berta was soon remarried to her husband's best friend, Dr. Tillison, who was an outstanding surgeon with his own clinic. He had 40 assistant doctors and 3 pharmacists. Berta came back to visit family and friends in Norway in the early 1900s, bringing wonderful gifts, thus her nickname Princess Golden Shoes. She had at least one child, a son. In a letter preserved at a farm in Suldal, we learn that she was alive in 1923, but her son was in a psychiatric institution. At some point she moved to California, where it is said she died in the late 1920s or 1930s. Berta is not mentioned in the church records for those moving out of Suldal, nor have we found her in Stavanger. We have not found her in the US censuses for 1900, 1910 or 1920, and all likely candidates that have turned up in our searches are soon proven to be someone else. So there seems to be no trace of her in America. We also wrote to the historical and genealogical societies in Chicago, without results. We received this from the genealogical society: "In reply to your request to our Chicago Genealogical Society asking for information about a Berte Tillison or a "Dr. Tillison" in Chicago at an unknown date, I would tell you that a quick search of the Chicago City directories 1910 - 1917 and 1923, various "Whose Who in Chicago" listings for the period, and the Chicago telephone directories of the period did not turn up any mention of those names. There is a two volume listing of physicians who practiced in the United States who died prior to 1950 but I do not now have access to that set. If this "Dr. Tillison" was as important as you have heard, he probably would be mentioned there." We have found two of Berta's brothers in US sources, however. Her brother Gaute G. Herrebakke (George G. Herbeck), b. 26 March 1870, died in Dane Co., WI, in 1946. Anothr brother, Håvard b. 1857 traveled with his family on the Caronia. ONe of his daughters was named Berta Herrebakke. She was born in 1901. Those in Norway can access a newspaper article about Berta here https://www.nb.no/items/2ed266f0071f3e0e339fa90a280d7aec?page=0&searchText=Tillison The original article was in "Vestlandet" in February 1910.