Scarbrough, Gladys McCausland – 1901-1998

ANDERSON, EYTCHISON, GIFFORD, MCCAUSLAND, MEYER, PATTERSON, PROBASCO, QUINN, SCARBROUGH, SCHMIDT

Posted By: Donna Sloan Rempp
Date: 8/25/2016 at 22:42:53

Gladys McCausland Scarbrough, 96, of 430 N. 4th Ave. E., died of respiratory failure, Friday, Dec. 18, at Skiff Medical Center in Newton.
Funeral services were held today at the Reese Funeral Home in Newton with the Rev. Lynn Elrod of the First Methodist Church in Newton officiating. Burial was at Our Silent City Cemetery in Kellogg.
Memorials in Mrs. Scarbrough’s name, to the Pleasantville church in rural Kellogg or First United Methodist Church of Newton, will be accepted.
The daughter of Cyrus and Clara Quinn McCausland, she was born Dec. 21, 1901 in rural Kellogg. She graduated from Drake University.
She married Howard Scarbrough July 4, 1923.
A lifelong resident of Newton and Jasper county, she worked as a homemaker and was employed as a schoolteacher at rural Jasper County schools and as a nurse’s aide at Skiff Medical Center in Newton. Mrs. Scarbrough was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Newton. She enjoyed traveling, visiting relatives and playing bingo.
Survivors include four daughters and two sons-in-law, Shirley and Arthur Schmidt of Newton, Elaine Eytchison of Indianapolis, Inc., Donna Probasco of Grinnell and Evelyn and Kenneth Patterson of Spokane, Wash.; a daughter-in-law, Glenda Scarbrough of Battle Creek, Mich.; a son-in-law, Roy Meyer of Kellogg; two sisters, Leota Gifford of Newton and Mable Anderson of Kellogg; 17 grandchildren; 28 great grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, a brother and a sister.
Source: Newton Daily News; Monday, 21 December 1998