Funeral services for Elizabeth (Betty) Siemer, age 87, of Albert Lea, will be held on Friday, Aug. 27, at 1:30 p.m. at the Church of St. Theodore. The Rev. Robert Schneider will officiate. Burial will be at St. Theodore’s Catholic Cemetery. Visitation will be Thursday from 5 to 7 p.m. at Bayview/Freeborn Funeral Home, and one hour prior to the services at the church.

Betty passed on to be with Our Savior, Jesus, in the early hours of Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2004, at St. Marys Hospital in Rochester. Prior to entering the hospital one week ago, she resided at Knutson Place for the past seven years.

Elizabeth M. Siemer was born on Dec. 10, 1916, in Le Mars, Iowa. On Jan. 11, 1938, she married Alvin Siemer in Marshall, Iowa. They celebrated their love for 58 years before Alvin was called to his eternal home in 1997. Betty was a homemaker all of her life with the exception of nine years when she worked for her daughter at Mrs. Gerry’s. In 1997 she moved to Knutson Place. She loved Knutson Place and all of the people there. You would need an appointment to see her, she was always out visiting with her many friends, or we would find her in a card game. She loved playing 500.

Survivors include her daughters: Gerry Vogt and her husband Jerry of Albert Lea, and Clarice Moen and her husband John of Tenstrike, Minn.; sons: Quentin Siemer and his wife Alvina of Tucson, Ariz., and Gary Siemer of Elgin, Minn.; 15 grandchildren; 27 great-grandchildren; sisters: Helen and Louise; and many nieces and nephews.

Betty was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Alvin; a grandson; and five brothers and two sisters.