Gilmore, Marie Mensing (1922-2010)

GILMORE, HORSTMANN, MENSING, FISHER, OSE, SHEPHERD, WERNEBURG, HEIDEN, WEBER

Posted By: Janelle Martin (email)
Date: 8/9/2010 at 22:52:12

Daily Freeman-Journal, Aug. 2, 2010, p.3

Marie H. Gilmore, age 87, of Iowa Falls, died on Sunday, August 1, 2010 at Scenic Manor Nursing Home in Iowa Falls. Funeral services will be 10:30 AM Wednesday at the Immanuel Memorial UCC in Alden with burial in the Alden Cemetery. Visitation will be 5-7 P.M. Tuesday at the Surls Funeral Home in Iowa Falls.

Marie Henrietta Gilmore was born on December 18, 1922 in Alden, Iowa, the daughter of Fred and Martha (Horstmann) Mensing. She graduated from the Iowa Falls High School in 1940 and the Thompson Beauty School in Des Moines. On October 16, 1946 Marie was united in marriage to Jack Gilmore at the Presbyterian Church in Dows by Pastor M.L. Blake. She was a beauty operator, retiring in 1946 and she had moved to Cedar Ridge on February 2, 2004. Marie was a member of the Immanuel Memorial United Church of Christ in Alden since February 8, 1953. She was also a member of the Order of Eastern Star, where she was a past Worthy Matron; member of the Legion Auxiliary and served in social clubs.

Marie is survived by her husband, Jack; three daughters, Jacalyn Fisher of Clear Lake, Judy Ose of Blairsburg, and Jane Shepherd of Ames; seven grandchildren, Brooke (Fisher) Werneburg, Blair Fisher, Erin (Ose) Heiden, Michael Ose, Lindsey (Ose) Weber, Seth Shepherd, and Blake Shepherd; and seven great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents and brothers, Keith, Beryl, Dick and Kenneth Mensing.

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