GRUBEN, Alice I. (KAHLER)

KAHLER, GRUBEN, VELAU, MUTH, WHITE, STANLEY, ORTIZ, JENSEN, RILES, BENECIA, SCHMIDT, STANLEY-KRAL, JACKSON, ARMSTRONG, SMIDT, JAHNKE

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 3/22/2016 at 03:27:01

Obituary - Alice I. (Kahler) Gruben
December 10, 1915 ~ December 26, 2003

Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa

Mrs. Charles Golding dies Saturday

ROCK FALLS — Alice I. Gruben, 88, of 107 Grover St., Rock Falls, died Friday (Dec. 26, 2003) at the Concord Care Center in Garner. Interment will be in the Rock Falls Cemetery.

Alice was born Dec. 10, 1915, in Dexter, Minn., the daughter of Earl and Lillian (Velau) Kahler. She married Raymond J. Gruben on July 15, 1934, in Mason City.

Alice is survived by two daughters, Shirley Muth and husband, Ralph, of Garner, and Sharon White and husband, James, of Kauua, Hawaii; grandchildren, Cindy Stanley and husband, Terry, of Rock Falls, Brenda Ortiz and husband, Rick, of Tracy, Calif., and Bill White, of Tracy, Calif.; great-grandchildren, Jamie Jensen and husband, Mike, of Waterloo, Josh Stanley and fiancé, Missy Riles, of Rock Falls, and Reina, Benecia and Juaquin Ortiz, of Tracy, Calif.; great-great-grandchildren, Zachary Schmidt, of Waterloo, Dylan, Reawna, and Isabel Jensen, of Waterloo, Shaylynn and Terrhyn Stanley-Kral, of Iowa City, and Gaven Stanley, of Rock Falls; sisters, Gladys Jackson of Lakeville, Minn., and Loretta Armstrong and husband, DeLos, of Clear Lake, and many nieces and nephews.

Alice was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Ray, in September of 1980; sister, Amelia Smidt, and brothers-in-law, Louie Smidt, William Jackson and Fred Jahnke.

Major Erickson Funeral Home & Crematory, 111 N. Pennsylvania Ave., Mason City, (641) 423-0924 in charge of arrangements.

[Interment was made at Rock Falls Cemetery, Rock Falls, Iowa.]

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, March of 2016