Laura A Morey

Laura A. Morey, 90, Bismarck, North Dakota, passed away Monday, December 25, 2017 at Missouri Slope Lutheran Care Center, Bismarck. Funeral Services will be held at 12:00 PM, Friday, December 29, 2017, at DaWise-Perry Funeral Services, Mandan, with Rev. Larry Giese officiating. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service at the funeral home. Burial will be in the North Dakota Veterans Cemetery, Mandan.

Laura was born May 20, 1927, to Andrew and Lena (Reimann) Bellon at Elgin, North Dakota, where she was raised and educated in country schools. On September 23, 1949, she married Harris Morey in Carson. Laura worked as a farm wife and homemaker. She enjoyed crocheting, sewing, canning, baking, and raising chickens. She was a member of Pretty Rock Homemakers Club and Jacobson Memorial Hospital Auxiliary.

She is survived by three daughters, Marie (Myron) Kroh, Lincoln, Beverly (Leon) Ham, Escanaba, Michigan, and Cindy (Bruce) Jasperson, Garland, Texas; one son, James (Royetta) Morey, Elgin; one son-in-law, Dean Zimmerman, Elgin; three sisters, Della Hegel, Bismarck, Shirley Imm, El Claire, Wisconsin, and Doris Wetzel, Bismarck; one brother, Garry Bellon, Kennewick, Washington; sisters-in-law, Geraldine Bellon and Dolly Bellon; one brother-in-law, Roy Gunsch; 14 grandchildren, Duane (Tiffany) Kroh, David (Sara) Kroh, Sally (Mike) Tayler, Neil Ham, Jamie (Dusty) Hochhalter, Jessica (Rick) Wald, Joe Deitz, Lauralee Morey, Jeremy, Marie, Ailli, and Ethan Jasperson, Renee (Manny) Parrish, Michael (Miranda) Morey; and 22 great-grandchildren; two special friends, Judy Trauger, and Jane Carlson, that consider Laura as their second mother.

Laura was preceded in death by her parents, husband, Harris; daughter, Joann Zimmerman, Elgin; four brothers, Harvey, Andy, Marvin, Gerald; and two sisters, Lillian Hegel and Geraldine Gunsch.