Service of Remembrance for Margot Giesler, 72, of Faith, SD will be Wednesday, July 13, 2005 at 10:00 a.m. at the United Methodist Church in Faith. Reverend's Gordon Higgins and Muriel Oates will officiate and burial will follow at the Black Hills National Cemetery near Sturgis on Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. Visitations will be from 1:00 to 7:00 p.m. Tuesday at the Faith Area Memorial Chapel in Faith and one hour prior to the service at the church on Wednesday morning.


Margot was born June 8, 1926 to Johann and Emma Przybylak of Leipzig, Germany. Margot had two older sisters Edith and Charlotte. She received her education in Leipzig, where she was required to take English for five years, starting in the fifth grade. She took it because she had to, not because she liked it.


Margot's teenage life changed when at 13 her mom passed away and then her father died when she was 17. She went to live with her sister Charlotte and her husband Walter, who became Margot's guardian.


Her excellent ability to speak and write English became very helpful, as World War II started. In 1945 Margot got a job as a secretary and English translator with the American Hospital in Berlin, Germany of the 279th hospital unit there. Darrell was assigned to be in charge of the dispensary and out patient clinic, which was where Margot was also working.


Darrell and Margot dated for 3 years and became engaged on Easter Sunday 1948. They were married on July 20th 1948 at the U.S. Army chapel in Berlin, Germany. Their most memorable wedding gift that Margot recalled was a huge American wedding cake that Darrell purchased. After their marriage they returned to the U.S. by airplane, where Darrell was discharged from the Army in Massachusetts. At this time they received train tickets to Chicago and eventually Mobridge, S.D. At Chicago, Darrell sent a telegram to his brother John, to meet them in Mobridge. When Darrell and Margot arrived in the Mobridge depot, their telegram was still there and no one was there to pick them up. Their travel from Mobridge to Faith resulted in getting a ride with a linen truck headed to Faith. Darrell recalls that en route to Faith in passing through Timber Lake, Margot exclaimed, "Where is the Timber or the Lake?"


Upon arriving in Faith the newlyweds spent four years living with Darrell's folks Carl and Ella until 1952, at which time they built their own home 2 miles south of the Giesler home place. In October 1951 Margot, after completing a home study course, received her certificate for U.S. citizenship.


Margot with her husband Darrell raised two sons, Rodney and Stephen. She worked at Farmers State Bank in Faith during the 1960's and was the secretary for the local conservation office for over ten years. Margot was a member of the Methodist Church in Faith, and sang with the church choir for several years. Margot passed from this life on July 8, 2005 at her home she shared with Darrell north of Faith, SD.


Margot is survived by her husband Darrell of Faith, her sons Rodney and wife Mary and their two children Ryan and Kelsey, all of Faith and Stephen and wife Marlene and their three children Megan, Trent, and Makayla of Green Bay, Wisconsin.


She was preceded in death by her parents Johann and Emma Przybylak, a sister Edith Przybylak, a sister Charlotte Becker and brother in law Walter Becker.