Beulah Olive Geer (1917-2008)

GEER, THOMPSON, THOMAS, DAGIT, JOHNSON

Posted By: Tri-County Times
Date: 3/27/2008 at 23:01:15

TRI COUNTY TIMES, Story County, Iowa, Thursday, March 27, 2008.

Beulah Olive Geer, age 91, of Madrid Home, Madrid, Iowa, passed on Easter Sunday, March 23, 2008, at her residence.

Services will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday, March 27, at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Slater, Iowa. Burial will be in the Colo Cemetery, Colo, Iowa.

Beulah was born March 1, 1917 in Withrow, Washington, to Charles and Etta (Thomas) Thompson. She spent most of her childhood in the Yakima Valley and moved with her mother to Panora, Iowa, after her father passed away. After completing high school and normal school, she became a rural schoolteacher. She met her future husband while working at Swift & Co. and married Marion (Doc) Geer on June 10, 1947.

They moved to Slater from Des Moines, Iowa in 1954 and lived there until retiring to Lucerne, Missouri, almost thirty years later. One year after "Doc's" death in 1987, she moved to Cheyenne, Wyoming. She enjoyed meeting many new friends and becoming an active member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church for fourteen years until she moved back to the Slater area in 2002. She died twenty-one years to the day of her husband's death in 1987.

Beulah enjoyed being active in church activities, taking trips with A.A.R.P., and spending time with family and friends. She had a wide variety of interests which included Bible study, music, animals, drawing, learning about nature, and bird-watching.

Beulah is survived by one son, Marion (Valerie) Geer of Des Moines; two daughters, Karleen (John) Dagit of Cheyenne, Wyoming and Joetta Johnson of Boone; six grandchildren, Scott (Ruth), Chad, Mark, Kirsten (Joe), John Jacob (Elena), and Casey (Sarah); and two great grandchildren, J.D. and Harrison. She was preceded in death by her husband, Marion; two brothers, Russell and Cleo; and one granddaughter, Andrea.

Visitation was on Wednesday, March 26, at the Soderstrum-Riis Funeral Home, 101 Benton St., Slater, Iowa. Memorials may be given to the Cheyenne Animal Shelter: 800 Southwest Drive, Cheyenne, WY, 82001.

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