Grace Margaret Deem

Grace M. Deem age 92 of Tracy, MN died Monday, November 28, 2011 at the Prairie View Healthcare Center in Tracy. Services will be 10:30 AM Thursday, December 1, 2011 at the Tracy Presbyterian Church. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the church on Thursday. Interment will be in the Tracy City Cemetery. A luncheon will be served in the church social hall following the graveside service. The Almlie Funeral Home of Tracy is handling the arrangements. Grace Margaret Deem was born December 18, 1918 to Bertus and Annette (Maus) Draayom on the family farm between Tracy and Walnut Grove, MN. She was baptized and confirmed in the Christian faith and attended Tracy Public Schools. In the summer of 1936, Grace married Wilbur G. Deem of Mather Ville, IL by a justice of the peace and they made their home on her parent’s farm for most of their married years. After retiring they moved into Tracy. Grace will be remembered as a faithful wife, loving mother and grandmother, as well as, a great care giver to Greg Hoffman, who she cared for many years. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church in Tracy and active in the church women’s groups. She was a warm, loving woman with many interests; she was an excellent gardener, caner, who loved to whistle and sang with a beautiful voice. In her adult life she took piano lessens and made the rafters ring in the old farm house when she got playing. In July of 2005 Grace became a resident of the Prairie View Healthcare Center in Tracy, where she died Monday, November 28, 2011 at the age of 92. Grace is survived by her two sons, Richard Deem of Tracy, MN and Douglas Deem of Marshall, MN; one daughter, Kathleen (Phillip) Markel of Hayward, WI; three granddaughters, Crystal and Sarah Deem of Tracy, MN and Heather Grace Wilbur of Fulton, IL; two grandsons, Terry Deem of Sioux Falls, SD and Phillip Markel Jr. of Stillwater, MN; five great grandchildren; one sister-in-law, Bertha Mae Draayom of La Vern, CA; nieces, nephews and friends. Her husband, Wilbur, one son, Kenneth, four brothers, Bert Jr., Garrett, Paul, and Phillip, and three sisters, Annette, Bertha and Lazetta preceded her in death.