> Fort Morgan Times > Fort Morgan, Co > 08-23-01 > Village: Kraft > > > > Marie Gies, 91, former Fort Morgan resident, died Monday at Bonell Good > Samaritan Center in Greeley. > > Mrs. Gies was born Dec. 25, 1909, in Kraft, Russia, to Carl and Marie > Becker. She married Henry Gies in 1930, in Bayard, Neb. The Gies family > moved to the Fort Morgan community that same year. When she lived in Fort > Morgan, Mrs. Gies attended Life Fellowship. She enjoyed church activities, > sewing and crocheting and being with her family. > > Survivors include one son, Jerry Gies of Greeley; three daughters: Dorothy > Ficken of Castle Rock, Betty Berhost of Aurora and Carol Alexander of > Gillette, Wyo.; one brother, Dick Becker of Forsythe, Mo.; two sisters, > Rachel Sagel and Betty Martin, both of Fort Morgan; 15 grandchildren, 40 > great-grandchildren, and six great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in > death by her husband, three brothers, three sisters and her parents. > > Funeral services will be at the Jolliffe Chapel in Fort Morgan Friday at > 10:30 a.m. Interment will be in Memory Gardens. The Heer & Jolliffe Mortuary > is in charge of arrangements. Friends who wish may make memorial gifts to > the Alzheimer's Association. > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > >