{"id":290543,"date":"2025-02-01T16:49:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T22:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=290543"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:57:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T22:57:19","slug":"beverly-gierke-saturday-february-1-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=290543","title":{"rendered":"Beverly Gierke – Saturday February 1, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Beverly Gierke, age 85, passed away peacefully on February 1, 2025 at SMP Health-St. Raphael in Valley City.  A memorial service will be held at 11:00 AM on Thursday, February 6th at the Lerud Mathias Funeral Home Chapel. Visitation will be held on Wednesday from 5:00 PM until 7:00 PM at the Funeral Home Chapel.  A prayer service will be held at 7:00 PM Wednesday evening at the Funeral Home.  Inurnment will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery in the Spring.  An online guestbook and livestream of Beverly\u2019s service will be available at www.lerudmathias.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beverly Ann Jewett, the daughter of John and Winnifred (Farrell) Jewett, was born July 2, 1939 in Valley City.  Beverly grew up in Valley City and attended Alderman Elementary School and graduated from College High School.  After receiving her education, she worked at Red Owl Grocery Store in Valley City.  On June 30, 1957 she married the love of her Life, Harry Gierke, at Our Savior\u2019s Lutheran Church in Valley City.  The couple lived in Oriska, ND where they raised their four children and shared a life full of love and adventure.  Beverly was a devoted wife and mother who was very active in Homemakers Club, Zion Lutheran Church, Oriska School PTO, was a 4-H Leader and was a member of the Valley City Eagles Auxiliary.  After her children were older, she was a bus driver for the Oriska School for 28 years.  Upon retirement, she enjoyed working at various jobs and transporting vehicles with her husband Harry.  Beverly was a loving and strong-willed mother who enjoyed celebrating special occasions with her family.  She had a love for horses, was known for her green thumb for gardening and flowers, sewing, baking and her famous popcorn balls for the holidays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beverly is survived by her husband Harry Gierke; her four children, Larry (Janet) Gierke, Debra (Jerry) Lindemann, Diana Mittleider and Linda (Mike Brown) Hoffman-Gierke; her 8 grandchildren, Shane (Tiffany) Kearns, Michael Hoffman, Melissa Pham, Melissa (Monty) Wall, Ashley (Nick) Horner, Katie Jo (Chris) Selfridge, Cassie Hoffman and Samantha (Justin) Lang; 16 Great-Grandchildren; and a sister, Shirley Bailey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beverly was preceded in death by her parents, a brother Norman Jewett, her father and mother-in-law Harvey Gierke and Elsie Avery, a son-in-law Keith Kearns and an aunt Elva Dittmer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beverly Gierke, age 85, passed away peacefully on February 1, 2025 at SMP Health-St. Raphael in Valley City.  A memorial service will be held at 11:00 AM on Thursday, February 6th at the Lerud Mathias Funeral Home Chapel. Visitation will be held on Wednesday from 5:00 PM until 7:00 PM […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":290544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290545,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290543\/revisions\/290545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/290544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}