Leah Lutherea Weeks 1895-1973

WEEKS, GILLEY, PELSUE, INGERSOLL, PORTER

Posted By: Georgea Clinton (email)
Date: 6/9/2011 at 10:43:29

Sept 21, 1973 - Carroll Daily Times - Mrs. Glenn N. "Peg" Weeks, 78, of Carroll died Thursday evening at the Carroll Health Center after a long illness. She was a descendant of a pioneer Carroll County family and the widow of a Carroll businessman. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the United Presbyterian Church in Carroll, with the Rev. Allan M. Peterson officiating. Burial will be in the Carroll City Cemetery. Friends may call at the Dahn-Woodhouse Funeral Home from 7 p.m. Friday until 12:30 p.m. Saturday, at which time the casket will be moved to the church for viewing until the hour of services.

Mrs. Weeks was the former Leah Luthera Pelsue, daughter of Edson and Emma Gilley Pelsue. She was born at Carroll Aug. 25, 1895, and graduated from Carroll High School in 1914. She also graduated from St. Angela Academy in secretarial administration. On Oct. 4, 1919, she married Mr. Weeks, who owned and operated a jewelry store in Carroll from 1919 until about 1963. He died in 1965.

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Charles C. (Jane) Ingersoll of Des Moines and Mrs. James B. (Marcia) Porter of Kalispell, Mont.; five grandchildren, and three great grandchildren. In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by a brother, Harold Gilley Pelsue.

Mrs. Weeks was a member of the United Presbyterian Church, Order of the Eastern Star, charter member and past president of the American Legion Auxiliary, member and past regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution, member and past president of Clio Club, charter member of the Carroll Country Club, and a member of the Historical Society of Iowa. She was vice chairman of the Red Cross Blood Bank when it started and served for many years, and also was a former member of the City Library Board.

Mrs. Weeks was descended from original settlers in Carroll County. The home where she was born stood at the site now occupied by the Northwestern Bell Telephone Company office in the 600 block of Adams Street. The home was one of the first in Carroll built by her grandfather, William Gilley, who helped found Carroll after first living in Carrollton. Her mother, Emma Iowa Gilley, was the first child in their group coming from Ohio to be born in Iowa, in 1862. They first settled at Iowa City. The house was moved from Adams Street and is now occupied by The Loft gift shop at 714 North Carroll Street.

For nearly two years during World War I, she lived in Detroit and drove daily in the Red Cross Ambulance Corps moving sick and injured service men from military bases and railroad stations to hospitals. During this time her future husband was an infantry officer with the American Expeditionary Forces fighting on the Northern Russian front in Europe.