GATES, Adah R. 1898-1991

GATES, HESALROAD, PRINGLE

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 9/21/2012 at 22:58:24

Funeral services for Mrs. Galen (Adah R.) Gates, 93, formerly of Greene and Marble Rock, Iowa, were held on Monday, October 7, 1991, at Reid's Funeral Chapel in Marble Rock, with Rev. Shirley Meendering of the Marble Rock United Methodist Church officiating. Burial was in the Hillside Cemetery in Marble Rock.

Adah R. Hesalroad was born on July 14, 1898, five miles west of Green in Coldwater Township, a daughter of Lewis an Lizzie (Pringle) Hesalroad, and died on Friday, October 4, 1991, at the Trinity Regional Hospital in Fort Dodge.

She received her education in rural schools near Greene, and graduated from Greene High School in 1917. On June 16, 1917, she was married to Galen Russell Gates, at her parent's home. Following their marriage they moved on to the Gates family farm south of Marble Rock.

To this union was born one son, Claire Eugene Gates, on March 6, 1922. Clair achieved the rank of Army Air Force Lieutenant, who died in service to his country on August 21, 1944, while on a high formation flight at Model, Colorado.

Adah and Galen retired from farming on March 1, 1949, and began traveling throughout the United States. For many years they spent their winters in Florida and Texas, and summers at the farm. During those years of traveling she worked as a waitress, engaged in laundry work, and was a housemother at a girls school in California. She cared for elderly women in their homes in Montana and worked at Allen Hospital in Waterloo as an aide.

On November 4, 1959, Galen died at Grand Canyon, Arizona. Adah returned to Cedar Falls where she lived until 1964 when she moved to Greene. She entered the Friendship Haven Village in Fort Dodge in 1982.

Adah had a great love to travel. She took several trips throughout Europe, the Orient, Hawaii and Mexico. She enjoyed sewing and doing handwork and was an avid crossword puzzle fan and bridge player.

She had been a member of the United Methodist Church in marble Rock since 1917 and was a member of the Marble Rock Legion Auxiliary.

She leaves to join her husband, son, her parents, a sister, Amy Shook; and two brothers, William James and Dean Crosby.

Survivors include two sisters.

[Nora Springs Advertiser - Rockford Register, 9 OCT 1991]