Baker City, Oregon
Gladys May Sieg, 81, a longtime Baker City resident, died May 26, 2002, at Eugene.
Her funeral will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Gray’s West & Co. Pioneer Chapel, 1500 Dewey Ave. Pastor Lenny Spooner of the First Church of the Nazarene will officiate.
Vault interment will be at Mount Hope Cemetery. There will be a reception afterward at the First Lutheran Church, 1734 Third St.
Gladys was born in Baker City on Oct. 29, 1920. She was the daughter of Jennie Mitchell and Ford Mitchell of Baker City.
Gladys was a 1938 Baker High School graduate and worked the next three years as a secretary for the Works Progress Administration. She married Norbert Sieg in 1941.
After Norbert’s discharge from the U.S. Army in 1946, the couple began farming with Norbert’s brother, Desmond, and father, Lynn. They farmed at Wingville until the ranch sold in 1983.
Gladys was very active in the Lutheran Church. She worked with Kid’s Club, was a member of the Altar Committee and the Lydia Circle. As a stewardship chairman of WELCA (Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America) she oversaw shipments to Lutheran World Relief. She especially liked working on the quilts that were sent in these shipments.
After Norbert died in 1990, Gladys continued living in Baker City until 1995 when she moved to Eugene to live with her son, Nolan Sieg, and his family.
Survivors include a sister, Vera Bennett of Baker City; her daughters, Karen Hobson of Arlington, Wash., Mardean Moss of Redding, Calif., and Debra Carstensen of Salem; her son, Nolan Sieg of Eugene; and her three grandchildren, Jason Moss, Andrea Sieg and Ryan Sieg.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggestions memorial contributions to the First Lutheran Church, the Alzheimer’s Association or a charity of one’s choice through Gray’s West & Co., P.O. Box 726, Baker City, OR 97814.
Used with permission from: Baker City Herald, Baker City, Oregon, May 31, 2002
Transcribed by: Belva Ticknor