Gilmore, Effie Elizabeth Layne (1873-1949)

GILMORE, LAYNE, RUPPEL, MURPHY, KRASS, MARVEL, HILLYER, KESSLER, HOWARD

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 12/12/2020 at 10:52:00

Daily Freeman Journal, Webster City, Iowa, Friday, January 28, 1949

Mrs. O.L. Gilmore, 75, died at 11:25 last night at the hospital where she had been a patient the past three weeks.

Funeral services will be held Monday at 2 p.m. at Foster's funeral home with Rev. S.T. Lenters officiating. Burial will be in Graceland cemetery.

Effie Elizabeth Layne, eldest daughter of Sam and Mary Layne, was born March 29, 1873 in Red Cedar, Iowa, Hamilton county, now known as Saratoga. Her father was postmaster, also blacksmith and storekeeper at Red Cedar. She attended the Saratoga school until she was 17 years of age, then taught school for three years in adjacent schools of the county.

Dec. 28, 1893, she was united in marriage to Oscar L. Gilmore and the couple started farming in the Pleasant Hill community on what was known as the "old Add Arthur" farm one-half mile east of the Pleasant Hill schoolhouse. They purchased the farm in 1905 from Mrs. Gilmore's father who had owned it for 16 years. The family resided there for 35 years then moved into Webster City where they resided for two years. They returned to the farm in 1925, locating four and one-half miles southeast of Webster City where they continued to reside until May, 1948, at which time they retired and moved back into Webster City, their home since.

In 1946, Mrs. Gilmore had a slight paralytic stroke from which she never fully recovered. She was however, of an energetic nature and continued to be active in community affairs. For five years she was a member of the Congregational church and took a great delight in attendance at all church activities.

In her earlier years, she was very active in church and Sunday school work at Pleasant Hill. She also enjoyed her membership in the Eastern Star, the Daughters of Union Veterans, Women's club and the Legion Auxiliary. Her greatest contentment, however, was found in her family and her home.

She was preceded in death by her parents, one brother, James Layne; three sisters, Myrtle, Mrs. Fred (Luella) Ruppel and Mrs. S.G. (Ivy) Murphy, and also one son, Reginald, who died in 1918.

She is survived by her husband, O.L. Gilmore; one son, M.L. Gilmore, who resides on the home farm six and one half miles southeast of Webster City, three daughters, Mrs. J.V. (Helen) Krass of Long Island, N.Y.; Mrs. Kenneth (Dorothy) Marvel of Webster City, and Mrs. Dale (Geraldine) Hillyer who lives on the farm four and one-half miles southeast of Webster City. Also surviving are 12 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren; one brother, Harmon Layne of Webster City; two sisters, Mrs. Bess Kessler of Ypsilanti, Mich., and Mrs. Fern L. Howard of Los Angeles, and other relatives and a host of friends.