Nellie E. Zeisler-Geary 1924-2012

ZEISLER GEARY REED MACKEY

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 5/14/2012 at 20:35:22

Sioux City Journal
March 23, 2012

SIOUX CITY -- Nellie E. Zeisler-Geary, 88, of Sioux City passed away Tuesday, March 20, 2012, at a Sioux City care center.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Jackson, Neb., with the Rev. Paul Albenesius officiating. Burial will be in Dakota City Cemetery. Visitation will be 5 to 8 p.m. today, with a Scriptural wake service at 7 p.m., at Becker-Hunt Funeral Home.

Nellie was born on Feb. 6, 1924, in Jackson, Neb., the daughter of Walter and Ida (Reed) Mackey.

She married Everett Zeisler on March 3, 1943, in Jackson. Everett passed away on Jan. 10, 1980. She then married Bernard J. Geary on Aug. 10, 1984, in Jackson. She was employed as a cook and dietary superintendent at Green Acres Nursing Home.

She was a member of Immaculate Conception Church in Sioux City.

Survivors include her husband, Bernard of Sioux City; two sons and their wives, Robert and Rita Zeisler of South Sioux City, and Donald and Kathy Zeisler of Omaha; three daughters, Betty and her husband, Gary Hoffman of Chadron, Neb., Arlene Hollander of Sioux City, and Ruth "Tootie" and her husband, Nile Harris of Milford, Iowa; a brother, Louis Mackey of Modesto, Calif.; two sisters, Agnes Harris of South Sioux City, and Mary and her husband, Bob Jorgenson of Columbia Falls, Mont.; 13 grandchildren; and 24 great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her first husband, Everett; a son, James Zeisler; six brothers, Maurice, Frank, Ray, Albert, Lawrence and Harry Mackey; and three sisters, Hazel Tjaden, Ida Healy and Ruth Miller.

Pallbearers will be her grandsons, Mike Zeisler, Josh Harris, Jason Harris, Russ Zeisler, Chuck Hoffman, Craig Hoffman and Jim Hoffman.