Gertson, Marcella "Sally" M.

GERTSON, KOLAR, KRON, KRACIUN, CAMPBELL, JARRETT, REILAND, RUMMELHART, WALDSCHMIDT

Posted By: Ruth Maring - VOLUNTEER
Date: 4/12/2010 at 12:05:31

April 2, 2010
Marcella “Sally” M. Gertson
Clinton Herald

CLINTON — CLINTON — Marcella “Sally” M. Gertson, 87, of Clinton, passed away Tuesday, March 30, 2010, at her home after an extended illness, where she was reunited with her beloved Daffy and surrounded by several of her children and grandchildren.

Services will be held at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 7, 2010, at the Catholic Church of the Visitation, Camanche. Visitation will be from 3:00-8:00 p.m. Tuesday, April 6, 2010, at the Clinton Chapel Snell-Zornig Funeral Home and Crematory, where a 6:30 p.m. Women of the Moose service will be conducted and a 7:00 p.m. Rosary will be recited. Serving as pallbearers will be her grandsons: Eric Kraciun, Shaun Kraciun, Tom Campbell, Chad Gertson and Eugene Gertson III. Burial will be at Clinton Lawn Cemetery.

Sally was born July 2, 1922, in Riverside, Iowa, the daughter of Leo C. and Mary T. (Kolar) Kron. She was a graduate of Iowa City High. Sally was a homemaker. Sally married Eugene W. Gertson on November 18, 1944, in San Francisco, CA; he passed away April 11, 2006.

She was a member of the Church of the Visitation, Camanche, and the Altar and Rosary Society, she was an active member of the Women of the Moose, was Past Deputy and held many titles with the Women of the Moose. She was also a member of the Daughter’s of Isabella and the Rebekah Lodge.

She is survived by three sons: Michael (Patricia) Gertson of Clinton, Iowa, Terry (Marcia) Gertson of Putnam Station, New York, and Eugene Gertson Jr. of Clinton, Iowa; three daughters: Linda (Louis, Jr.) Kraciun of Camanche, Iowa, Penny (James) Campbell of Clinton, Iowa, and Mary (LeRoy) Jarrett of Clinton, Iowa; fourteen grandchildren, fifteen great-grandchildren, and sisters, Ginger Reiland and Leona (Hubert) Rummelhart, both of Iowa City, and Lucille (Francis) Waldschmidt of Riverside, IA.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her daughter, Sharon, a brother and her parents.

Memorials may be made to the family.

Online condolences may be expressed by visiting www.snellzornig.com.

Death date: March 30, 2010