WHITEHURST, Gladys Pauline

WHITEHURST, LOWE, RYE, SORENSEN

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 6/25/2013 at 13:43:48

Gladys Pauline Whitehurst, 76, of Mason City, died Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2003, at the
Manly Care Center.

Memorial services were held Friday, Oct. 10, 2003, at the Bride Colonial Chapel,
Manly, with the Rev. Robert Cumings of the Bethel United Methodist Church
officiating. Inurnment will be private at a later date in the Ventura Cemetery.
There will be no public visitation.

Gladys Pauline Whitehurst was born on Aug. 26, 1927, in Kirksville, Mo., the
daughter of Charles and Cleo Lowe. She attended and received her education in
the Mason City School system. After completing her schooling she worked at the
Park Hospital in Mason City before writing news articles for the Ventura News
Paper, and also worked for Winnebago Industries in Forest City for 11 years. She
was united in marriage to Orvin Keith Whitehurst in October 1945.

She enjoyed crocheting, cross word puzzles, crafts, collecting clowns, and going
to garage sales, but her great love and enjoyment was her family and grandchildren.

She was a member of the Ventura United Methodist Church.

Left to cherish her memory are her children, Gary Whitehurst and his wife,
Genelle, of Clear Lake, Jerry Whitehurst and his wife, Jane, of Ollie, Iowa,
Sandra Rye and her husband, Harold, of Lake City, Minn., Dennis Whitehurst and
his wife, Cheryl, of Clear Lake, Doug Whitehurst and his wife, Norma, of Clear
Lake, David Whitehurst and his wife, Sandra, of Clear Lake, Randy Whitehurst and
his wife, Wendy, of Clear Lake, Kevin Whitehurst and his wife, Linda, of
Oshkosh, Wis., Laurie Mills and her husband, Gilbert, of Plymouth, Iowa, Teresa
Sorensen and her husband, Rob, of Ringsted, Iowa, and Mike Whitehurst and his
wife, Lynette, of Manly; 26 grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren; two sisters,
Frieda Rezab and her husband, Norman, of Plymouth, and Verna Angel and her
husband, Jesse, of Mason City; a brother, Charles Lowe, of Clear Lake; as well
as other relatives and friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents; an infant son, Steven; a
granddaughter, Ann Marie; six brothers and sisters, Roland, Harley, J.C., and
Donald Lowe, Thelma Bailey, and Delma Huntley.