Marie Eier, 97

Anna Marie Eier, of Lewiston, will celebrate her 97th birthday Monday by providing birthday cake to all the seniors in her exercise class and at a family dinner that afternoon.

She was born May 20, 1927, in Sandpoint to J.B. and Opal Whitehead. She attended Sandpoint High School and then Lewis- Clark Normal School (now Lewis-Clark State College) in Lewiston where she graduated as a registered nurse. She then went to work at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Lewiston.

She was married to Frank Biddiscombe, of Lewiston, and they had two daughters and a son. They were later divorced.

Though she enjoyed her work at the hospital, especially the nursery, to secure regular work hours, she later went to work for Dr. John Braddock.

She and Douglas S. Eier were married Sept. 23, 1962, and she became stepmother to his three sons and one daughter.

Until 1977, she worked part time in nursing homes in the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley.

She enjoys shopping, living in her own home and the companionship of her two cats. She also enjoys attending Sunday services at Congregational Presbyterian Church and the Fit and Fall Proof exercise classes held there three times a week.

Her husband died in 2005.

In addition to her children, she has 17 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.