Former Sweet Home resident Gertrude Irene Reeserpassed away peacefully at home in Yuma, Ariz., on Sept. 30, 2021.
She was born Aug. 7, 1928, to George and Evangeline Emmert in Molalla. Gertrude grew up mostly in Sweet Home, attending school there and in Heston, Kan. She married Maynard Reeser of Albany in 1946.
In 1953 the couple boarded the steamship Baranof in Seattle with their two young daughters and sailed to Petersburg, Alaska. There, they…