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Margaret Ries
1916 - 2000
Margaret Ries
1915 - 2000
Klemme native Margaret Ries formerly of Waterloo, died Saturday, Oct. 14 at the
Windsor Nursing and Rehab Center, Cedar Falls. She was 85.
Memorial services were held Thursday, Oct. 19 at the Hagarty-Waychoff-Grarup
Funeral Service on West Ridgeway in Waterloo. Chaplain Boyd Kuester of the Cedar
Valley Hospice officiated.
Inurnment was in the Concord Cemetery, Garner. The Rev. Wendy Trone officiated
at the inurnment service.
Margaret (Gates) Ries was born July 12, 1915 in Klemme. She was the daughter of
Fred and Cecelia (Nisbet) Gates. On May 26, 1942 Margaret Gates and Kenneth
Garver were married. Kenneth Garver died in 1963.
She married Harold Ries on Nov. 3, 1972 in Waterloo. Harold Ries died on June 3,
1994.
Mrs. Ries and her husband owned and operated Kenmar Drug Store for many years.
Survivors include a step-daughter, Barbara Halterman of Pasadena, Texas; and two
step grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by both husbands, Kenneth Garver and Harold Ries, her
parents; four sisters, Cora Schaefer, Hattie Ridder, Mattie Riemer and Florence
Martinson; and a brother Lawrence Gates.
source: Leader & Signal, Garner, Iowa, 25 Oct 2000, page 4, column 3
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Waterloo - Margaret Ries, 85, formerly of
Waterloo, died Saturday, Oct. 14, at Windsor Nursing and Rehab Center, Cedar
Falls, of natural causes.
She was born July 12, 1916, in Klemme, daughter of Fred and Cecelia Nisbet
Gates. She married Kenneth Garver on May 26, 1942. He died in 1963. She married
Harold Ries on Nov. 3. 1972, in Waterloo. He died June 3, 1994.
Mrs. Ries and her husband owned and operated Kenmar Drug Store for any years.
Survived by: a stepdaughter, Barbara Halterman of Pasadena, Texas; and two
grandchildren.
Preceded in death by: four sisters, Cora Schaefer, Hattie Ridder, Mattie Riemer
and Florence Martinson; and a brother, Lawrence Gates.
Memorial services: 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Hagarty-Waychoff-Grarup funeral
Service on West Ridgeway, with inurnment in Concord Cemetery, Garner.
Memorials: may be directed to Cedar Valley Hospice.
source: Courier, Waterloo-Cedar Falls, Iowa, 18 Oct 2000, page B2, column 1
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Margaret R Gates Garver: born 12 Jul 1915 Hancock
County, Iowa - died 14 Oct 2000 Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa
Grave marker at Concord Cemetery, Garner, Hancock County, Iowa - Blk 9, Lot
38
Daughter of Fredrick Gates, born 1875 - died 1952 and Cecelia Jane Nesbit, born
1875 - died 1956
Wife of: Kenneth M Garver, born 1914 -
died 1963
Sister of:
Cora May Gates Schaefer (1899-1970)
Hattie Elizabeth Gates Ridder (1900-1997)
Mattie Mildred Gates Riemer (1900-1999)
Infant Gates (1902-1902)
Florence Cecelia Gates Martinson (1909-1985)
source: Find-A-Grave, memorial# 115805022
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