Mary
Liess
Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Grace Lutheran Church. The Rev. Daniel Bremer will officiate. Burial will be in Westlawn Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Grace Lutheran Church. The family will be greeting friends from 8 to 9 p.m. so that Mary's daughter can compete in district track. All Faiths Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Liess was born July 29, 1960, at Hastings to Vernon and Phyllis (Seeman) Meyer. Survivors of the immediate family include her husband, Mark; two sons, Kevin and Aaron, and a daughter, Paige; her parents of Blue Hill; two brothers and sisters-in-law, Dave and Crickett Meyer and Jim and Danece Meyer, all of Blue Hill; and a sister, Eileen Penrose of Hastings. Additional survivors include nieces and nephews. Mary grew up on a farm near Blue Hill. She received her education at Trinity Lutheran School in Blue Hill and graduated from the Blue Hill High School class of 1978. She received an Executive Secretary Diploma from Lincoln School of Commerce. She married Mark Liess on May 1, 1982, at Blue Hill. They made their home in Grand Island, where she worked at Douglas Bookkeeping for 18 years and Penrose Machining from 1999 until the present. She was a member of Grace Lutheran Church and was active in her children's education at Trinity Lutheran and Heartland Lutheran High School. At Mary's request, in lieu of flowers, memorials are suggested to Grace Lutheran Church, Heartland Lutheran High School or Trinity Lutheran School.