GALLARNO, Helen 1886-1939

GALLARNO, CARPENTER, WILLIAMS, PIERCE, SELLEN, DUNHAM, OLSON

Posted By: Erin Galyean (email)
Date: 1/19/2008 at 00:45:43

Mrs. Gallarno
Dies at Home

Mrs. Helen Gallarno, 77, wife of George Gallarno, editor of Plain Talk, died at 9:15 a.m. Tuesday at her home, 2901 Ingersoll Avenue, after an illness of seven years.

Funeral services, to conducted by the Christian Science church, will be at Dunn's Funeral Home at 2 p.m. Thursday.

Mrs. Gallarno was born in Racine, Wis., and came to Iowa with her parents when she was three years old. She and Mr. Gallarno were married at Cedar Falls, Iowa, May 12, 1886, and celebrated their golden wedding anniversary three years ago.
Surviving are Mr. Gallarno, one of the oldest newspaper men in Iowa, one daughter, one granddaughter, one brother and five sisters. The daughter is Mrs. Charles cook, Wausau, Wis., and the granddaughter is Mrs. Cook's daughter, Nancy. Mrs.Cook was at her mother's beside at death.

The surviving brother is Harry Carpenter of California and the sisters are Mrs. Will E. Williams, Dubuque, Ia., Mrs. Ward Pierce, and Mrs. Charles Sellen, Cedar Falls, Ia., Mrs. R. A. Dunham, Seattle, Wash., and Mrs. Oliver Olson, Lemmon, S.D.

Plain Talk [Des Moines, IA] 28 Jun 1939