Mary L. Sieger 1928-1999

SIEGER CLIFT JOHNSTON

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 11/29/2012 at 13:45:50

HORNICK, Iowa — Mary L. Sieger, 70, of Hornick died Sunday, Sept. 12, 1999, at a Sioux City hospital.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Hornick United Methodist Church, with the Rev. Terra Amundsen officiating. Burial will be in Willow Township Cemetery, Holly Springs, Iowa.

Visitation will be 6 to 8 p.m. today, with a prayer service at 7 p.m. at Wood Funeral Chapel in Sloan, Iowa.

Mrs. Sieger was born Dec. 27, 1928, in Hornick, the daughter of Earl and Minnie (Clift) Johnston. She graduated from Hornick-Holly Springs High School.

She married Gerald "Jerry" Sieger on Nov. 17, 1950, in Hornick. He died April 10, 1984, in Onawa, Iowa.

She was employed as a bookkeeper with Farmer's Co-op Elevator in Hornick and Hirschbach Motor Lines in South Sioux City for many years. She was then employed with Telequest Marketing in Sergeant Bluff.

She was a member of Hornick United Methodist Church, church choir and American Legion Hind-man-Steele Auxiliary.

She sang for several years with Treble Clefs singing group in Sioux City. She enjoyed her pets, collecting ceramic churches, shopping and music.

Survivors include a son and his wife, Jim and Vickie of Hornick; a daughter and her husband, Diane and Tom Stangl of Le Mars, Iowa; four grandchildren, Jill and Jami Sieger and Lindsay and Madison Stangl; a brother and his wife, Roy and Beth Johnston of Sioux City; two sisters, Edna and her husband, Cleland Stow, of Palmdale, Calif. and Lily Flewelling of Moville, Iowa; and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; two brothers, Walter and Lloyd; and four brothers-in-law, George, Walter, Don and Marvin.