Rosemary (Juran) Gibbs

JURAN, GIBBS, ROLING, WOLF, KLOSER

Posted By: Barbara Gehlsen Nugent (email)
Date: 1/9/2014 at 21:41:36

The Telegraph-Herald, Thursday, Dec. 21, 1947

Mrs. Glen (Rosemary) Gibbs
Farley, IA

Services for Mrs. Glen (Rosemary) Gibbs, 46, of Farley who was killed Wednesday afternoon in an auto accident at the intersection of Kennedy Road and Highway 20 west of Dubuque, will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Joseph's Catholic Church here. Burial will be in the church cemetery.

Friends may call at the Reiff Funeral Home here after 7 p.m. Thursday. The parish rosary will be prayed at 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday at the funeral home.

Members of the Farley American Legion Post are requested to meet at the funeral home at 8:30 p.m. Thursday.

Members of the Catholic Daughters of America, Present Patient Court No. 1460 and St. Joseph's Altar and Rosary Society will meet at 4 p.m. Friday at the funeral home to say the Rosary.

Surviving are her husband, at home; five daughters, Donna Lou, Mary Ann, Julie, Jane and Connie, all at home; five sons, Ronald of Farley, Danny, James, Kenneth and Billy Joe, all at home; a granddaughter; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Juran of North Buena Visat, IA, three sisters, Mrs. Alfred (Madonna) Roling of Durango, IA, Mrs. Don (Delores) Wolf of Sherrill, IA, and Mrs. Herman (Matilda) Kloser of North Buena Vista; three brothers, Anthony Juran of North Buena Vista, Robert Juran of Edgewood, and William Juran of Holy Cross, IA.

The Telegraph-Herald, December 21, 1967, Front Page

Crash Here Kills Mother of 10

Mrs. Glen Gibbs, of Farley, IA, the mother of ten chilsdren, was killed instantly late Wednesday afternoon when a semi-trailer truck and her car collided just west of Dubuque on Highway 20.

The driver of the truck, James Trask, 50, of Mason City, IA, is reported in good condition at Mercy Medical Center, with cuts and bruises. Mrs. Gibbs' 11-year-old daughter, Julie, a passenger in the car, is also reported in good condition at Mercy with bruises.

Another daughter, Jane, 10, the third passenger in the car, was treated at Mercy and released Wednesday night.

The Gibbs auto stopped at the stop sign on Kennedy Road, then turned west onto the highway when the west-bound truck struck it, investigating officers said. All three passengers were thrown from the car onto the highway, before the vehicle came to rest in a ditch about 30 feet from the point of impact.

The truck continued for about 150 feet west and jackknifed across the median of the four-lane road, officers said.

The victim's husband has been Farley town marshal for about four years. Mrs. Gibbs was employed at the Ertl Toy Factory in Dyersville, IA.

Mrs. Gibbs had been shopping in Dubuque and was starting the return trip to Farley.

Iowa Highway Patrolman Lyle Peters investigated the accident, with the aid of Dubuque County Sheriff's officials.