TRACT #22 - BERT L. AND HILDA E. GEER
Bert L. and Hilda E. Geer were the 35th and 36th signers on the Petition to Incorporate Federal Heights. They bought Tract 22 from Frank and Bertha Wallic on February 12, 1940.
Delbert Lloyd Geer was born in Bellingham, Washington on August 10, 1884. By the time he was 14 years old, Bert was boarding with a family in Denver working as an apprentice to a horseshoer.
Hilda Elsie Jacobsen was born on May 25, 1888 in Sweden. Hilda came to the United States in the early 1900s. She lived in Chicago and worked as a servant for the owner of a printing company before she came to Denver.
Bert and Elsie were married on January 23, 1917 at Augustana Lutheran Church in Denver. When they married, Elsie automatically became a naturalized citizen, because Bert was a citizen, a concept known as derivative citizenship. Bert and Elsie lived on South Broadway in Denver in 1918 when Bert registered for the WWI draft. The couple rented a home at 355 East 7th Ave. in Denver for a few years while Bert worked as a mechanic. Elsie travelled back to her home in Sweden to visit her parents in 1920. In the 1930s, Bert and Elsie lived at 711 Logan St. in Denver where Bert worked as a chauffeur.
By 1940, when the Geers lived in Federal Heights, Bert told a census taker he had his own business as a poultry man. In July 1941, Bert and Elsie sold their property in Federal Heights and moved back to Denver where Bert worked as a crane operator for F.A. Heckendorf. He later worked as a painter.
The Geers had no children. Bert died in the early 1960s. Hilda died in December 1989 at the age of 101.