Private graveside services for Marie Alma Bergie, of Albert Lea, will be held on Saturday, June 26, at Graceland Cemetery.

Marie died on Saturday, June 19, 2004, at the Good Samaritan Center in Albert Lea. She was 84.

Marie was born on April 26, 1920, in St. Paul, to Albert B. and Marie (Marquardt) Cady. She was baptized in St. Paul when she was three. She and her parents motored in a Model T. Ford to Los Angeles, Calif., lived there for a year, and then returned to St. Paul. She started school in Minneapolis, continued in St. Paul, and then moved to Albert Lea where she graduated in 1938. Following graduation she worked at several places including Interstate

Power Company.

On Aug. 19, 1943, she was united in marriage to Bidney D. Bergie in the chapel on Langley Field Air Force Base, Va.

During her husband’s overseas duty in Africa and Italy, she returned home and worked at the American Gas Machine Company on Front Street.

Marie was a past member of Beta Sigma Phi s Omicron Chapters and had been a Cub Scout Den Mother and a Brownie leader. She belonged to the Freeborn County Historical Society.

She started attending First Lutheran Church in 1931, was confirmed in 1935, and is a member of Circle #12.

In earlier years she enjoyed ice skating, roller skating, bowling and swimming.

She will be missed by her family Bradley Bergie and his wife Marcy of Lake Elmo, Minn., and their children: Josh and Sonja Bergie of Lake Elmo; granddaughter, Sarah and

her husband Gary Kerkhove of Mt. Julliet, Tenn., and their children: Kristen and Lucas; grandson, Seth Jacobsen and his wife Candace of Flagstaff, Ariz.; grandson, Saul Powers of Glasgow, Ky.;

granddaughter, Sasha Powers of Glasgow; sister-in-law, Marga Bergie and her daughters: Sigrid and her husband Tony Feliciano of Los Angeles, Calif., and Astrid Bergie of Minneapolis; and nieces and nephews: Brett Wamsley, Marilyn and Frank Dobmeyer, and Marcia and Gerald Cefalu of Cincinnati, Ohio.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Bidney; son, Barry; daughter, Becky; grandson, Eli Bergie at birth; brother-in-law, Murdoc Bergie; brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Richard and Virginia Wamsley; and

brother-in-law, Romeo Bergie.

Special appreciation to the staff at Good Samaritan Center for all the

tender, loving care she received from them.

Blessed be her memory.