OBITUARY: Geraldine Jonette Wright Piper, Mitchell County, Iowa


                    Geraldine Jonette Wright Piper

[Mitchell County Press-News, online, www.mcpress.com, Posted May 8, 2002]


Memorial Services for Geraldine Piper, 79, of St. Ansgar were held
Saturday, May 4, 2002 at the United Methodist Church in St. Ansgar, IA.
The Reverend Jay Amundson officiated. Inurnment was in the St. Ansgar
Cemetery.

Piper died Wednesday, May 1, 2002 at the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit,
Mason City.

Geraldine Jonette Wright Piper was born in Dubuque, IA May 20, 1922, the
daughter of John and Geraldine Samuels Wright. Her parents moved from
Farley to Orchard, IA in 1924 where she attended Orchard Consolidated
School. Gerry attended Upper Iowa at Fayette one year preceding entrance
to Kahler Hospital School of Nursing in Rochester, MN. She graduated as an
RN in September 1944. She was employed at Oakridge Hospital, Oakridge, IN
until the end of W.W. II.

Geraldine was united in marriage to Donald Piper on November 18, 1945 at
the Little Brown Church in Nashua. She served as a registered nurse at Good
Samaritan Center in St. Ansgar from 1965 to 1968, as school nurse for
St. Ansgar schools for nine years and in 1977 she returned to Good Samaritan
Center, retiring in 1992. She was a member of the United Methodist Church,
and American Legion Auxiliary. She enjoyed her grandchildren, outdoor life,
family and friends. She also enjoyed spending time canoeing and bird
watching at the cabin on the Cedar River that Don built.

Preceding her in death were her parents and husband Donald.

Survivors include three daughters, Carol Dockum and husband Gary, their
children Aaron, Jessica and Joshua and great-grandson Isaac, of Rock Falls;
Christine Piper and husband Jon Barry, their children Natalie and Sydney of
Rochester, MN; Susan May and husband Harry, their children Cassie and
husband Troy Hanna, Hillary, Gabriel and Skyler of Stacyville; two sisters,
Dorothy Neeley of State Center, Brenda Currier and husband Owen of Mason
City; a brother Jack Wright of Pittsburg, CA; nephews, a niece and cousins;
sisters-in-law Dorothy Knutson, Orpha and Wilburt Rogotzke, Marion and
Myron Schmidt.

Schroeder & Sites Funeral Home, St. Ansgar was in charge of arrangements.
(641) 713-4920.




Copyright (c) 2002 by Kermit Kittleson
(Note: I am not necessarily related to the subject of the obituary.)
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