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IN LOVING MEMORY OF
Geraldine "Geri"
Albert
March 21, 1926 – October 31, 2011
Obituary
Doris Geraldine (Geri) Albert, 85, Ryder, died Oct. 31, 2011 at Missouri Slope Lutheran Care Center, Bismarck. Funeral services will be held on Saturday at 11:00 am at St. Nicholas Catholic Church in Garrison. Burial will be at Sunset Memorial Gardens in Minot at 2:30 pm. There will not be a rosary of vigil.
Visitation will be held on Friday from 3 to 7 at Thompson Funeral Home in Garrison.
She was born March 21, 1926 in Flaxton, ND to Wilfred & Edna (Stoffel) Burgett. Wilfred died before she was one year old, and family friends Fred and Ethel Carter helped raise her. She graduated from Flaxton Public School in 1944 and married Robert Albert of Ryder on May 25, 1944. They moved to a farm southwest of Ryder where she lived until moving to Bismarck in 2009.
Music was very important to Geri and she passed that love on to her children. One of her joys was listening to them as they performed musically. She taught many piano lessons in the community, and was a long time organist at St. Charles and St. Elizabeth Catholic Churches. She often accompanied Robert as he sang for weddings and funerals.
Her talents also included cooking, baking, and gardening. Many family members and neighbors enjoyed the work of her hands. Caramel rolls and dinner rolls were her specialty. Many bags of baked goods went home with family and friends after a visit to the farm.
Geri spent many hours in front of her sewing machine creating clothes for herself, her children, and even her husband. She also at one time upholstered furniture for her home and for others in the community. As time went on, and the grandchildren came along, she took it upon herself to create quilts and afghans for them as a remembrance of their grandmother.
She is survived by her six children, Roberta (Duane) Johnson, Minot; Jerome (Gayle) Albert, Minneapolis; Jerold (Julie) Albert, Bismarck; Glen Albert, Ryder; Julianne (Mark) Hathaway, Bismarck; and Leslie (Marlin) Peterson, Bismarck; fifteen grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; one brother, Wilfred Burgett, Menands, NY; and brother-in-law Carl Homanyi, Sacramento, CA.
She was preceded in death by her husband Robert, her parents, her siblings Robert, Donna, and Maxine; three sisters-in-law and two brothers-in-law.
Visitation will be held on Friday from 3 to 7 at Thompson Funeral Home in Garrison.
She was born March 21, 1926 in Flaxton, ND to Wilfred & Edna (Stoffel) Burgett. Wilfred died before she was one year old, and family friends Fred and Ethel Carter helped raise her. She graduated from Flaxton Public School in 1944 and married Robert Albert of Ryder on May 25, 1944. They moved to a farm southwest of Ryder where she lived until moving to Bismarck in 2009.
Music was very important to Geri and she passed that love on to her children. One of her joys was listening to them as they performed musically. She taught many piano lessons in the community, and was a long time organist at St. Charles and St. Elizabeth Catholic Churches. She often accompanied Robert as he sang for weddings and funerals.
Her talents also included cooking, baking, and gardening. Many family members and neighbors enjoyed the work of her hands. Caramel rolls and dinner rolls were her specialty. Many bags of baked goods went home with family and friends after a visit to the farm.
Geri spent many hours in front of her sewing machine creating clothes for herself, her children, and even her husband. She also at one time upholstered furniture for her home and for others in the community. As time went on, and the grandchildren came along, she took it upon herself to create quilts and afghans for them as a remembrance of their grandmother.
She is survived by her six children, Roberta (Duane) Johnson, Minot; Jerome (Gayle) Albert, Minneapolis; Jerold (Julie) Albert, Bismarck; Glen Albert, Ryder; Julianne (Mark) Hathaway, Bismarck; and Leslie (Marlin) Peterson, Bismarck; fifteen grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; one brother, Wilfred Burgett, Menands, NY; and brother-in-law Carl Homanyi, Sacramento, CA.
She was preceded in death by her husband Robert, her parents, her siblings Robert, Donna, and Maxine; three sisters-in-law and two brothers-in-law.
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