Emma Wiest

Emma Wiest, 90, formerly of Bismarck, died Jan. 27, 1998, in the Wishek hospital. Services will be 1:30 p.m. Friday at Bismarck Reformed Church, with the Rev. Maury Millican officiating. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens, Bismarck.

Visitation will be from 4-9 p.m. today and 9-11 a.m. Friday at Eastgate Funeral Service, and will continue at the church one hour before services.

Emma Stern was born March 17, 1907, on a farm near Zeeland to Jacob and Katherina (Schiermeister) Stern. She grew to womanhood on the farm and received her elementary education in a rural school.

On Dec. 12, 1929, she married Theodore "Ted" Wiest. They farmed northeast of Zeeland until the fall of 1957. They sold their farm and moved to Bismarck. Mr. Wiest died April 9, 1979.

Emma continued to live in her home in Bismarck. She was an excellent seamstress and enjoyed quilting, crocheting and cooking.

She was a member of Bismarck Reformed Church, Women of the Church and the Friendship Club.

In November 1994 she moved to the Kensington in Bismarck. She lived there for more than two years before moving to the Wishek nursing home in March 1997.

She is survived by two daughters and sons-in-law, Lorraine and Ray Jund, Mandan, and Arlene and Erwin Miller, Kulm; four grandchildren, Vaughn Jund, Bismarck, Susan (Jund) Peters and her husband, Scott, Casselton, Lance Miller and his wife, Della, Apple Valley, Minn., and Lanay Miller and her fiance, Jack Webb, Chisago City, Minn.; one great-granddaughter, Lauren Miller; one brother, Herman Stern, Bismarck; four sisters, Adeline Jundt, Bismarck, Ida Woehl, Wishek, and Leah Thompson and Rachel Norman, Torrance, Calif.; and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Ted; and two brothers, George and Walter Stern.