Graveside service for Mildreth Jessie Rieck of Tucson, Ariz., formerly of Cape Girardeau, was held Friday in Lorimier Cemetery.
Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel was in charge of arrangements.
Rieck, 85, died Saturday, Feb. 15, 1997, at Tucson Medical Center.
She was born May 14, 1911, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of James and Jessie Susan Wilds Green. She and Albert Sylvester Rieck were married Feb. 6, 1951, in Cape Girardeau. He died Dec. 30, 1955.
Rieck had lived in Tucson since May 1956. She was a secretary with Tucson Public Schools 16 years.
Survivors include a brother, Hugh Rieck of Flagstaff, Ariz.
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