Service of Remembrance for Violet Marie Keierleber, 81, of Elgin, ND will be Wednesday, March 27, 2007 at 10:30 a.m. MT at the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church in Elgin. Rev. Jerry Lee will officiate. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service on Wednesday morning.


VIOLET MARIE HOCHHALTER was born on June 25, 1925 to Mike and Bertha (Kapsch) Hochhalter. She attended country schools and graduated from Elgin High School in 1943. She attended Dickinson State Teachers College and taught country school. She also worked at Boeing Aircraft in Renton, Washington.

Violet marred Harry Keierleber on June 8, 1946. They farmed south of Elgin until moving to Elgin in 1979. She worked at the hospital as a CNA for a time.


She was a member of the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church and its women's group. She had belonged to the Art Association, Germans from Russia, a homemaker's club and many other community groups. Her interests included sewing, gardening, cooking and baking, painting, crafts and genealogy. Before her health failed she enjoyed bowling, golf and fishing.


Her husband, Harry, died in February of 2002. She was also preceded in death by her parents, her brothers, Elmer and Raymond, her son Bruce, and her granddaughters, Kashia Lynn Keierleber and Anne Marie Keierleber.


Violet Keierleber passed away at the Jacobson Memorial Hospital in Elgin, on March 23, 2007.


Those most grateful for having shared in her life are her two sons, Kenneth (JoAnne), of Rock Springs, WY and Ross (Nancy) of Grantville, GA; one daughter, Michelle (Mike) Ford, of Clermont, FL; three grandchildren, Kris, David and Jamin, one great grandson, Hunter Keierleber; one brother, Fredrick (Deloris) Hochhalter; one sister, Alice (Doug) Zeller; two sisters-in-law, Luella Hochhalter and Elaine Hochhalter and many nieces and nephews.