Gladys Hirst Callison

CALLISON, HIRST, COOMES, HOCHSTETLER, HENSHAW, BRIGHT, KARRLE, EDWARDS, WALTON, GOOD

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 2/27/2006 at 20:20:39

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
May 21, 2003

GLADYS CALLISON, Winterset

Gladys Marie Callison, 87, of Winterset died of multiple sclerosis May 17, 2003, at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines.

Funeral services were held Tuesday, May 20, at the First Christian Church in Winterset with Pastor Mark Gustafson officiating. Burial was at Winterset Cemetery.

Gladys Callison was born April 26, 1916, to James Arthur and Minnie Etta (Coomes) Hirst of Archer, Neb. On Sept. 24, 1940 she was united in marriage to Wilbur Callison in Nashua. Gladys, a resident of Winterset since 1946, had been a bookkeeper for the United States Department of Agriculture, Madison County Memorial Hospital and M&W Farm Service. She also volunteered as a Grey Lady for the Veterans Hospital and was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star Chapter 180, V.F.W. Ladies Auxiliary and the First Christian Church of Winterset.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; a brother, James Hirst; and a sister, Thelma Hirst.

She is survived by a daughter, Kaye Hochstetler of Winterset; a son, Kenneth R. Callison of Winterset; a brother, Arthur Hirst of Odessa, Texas; six sisters, Alice Henshaw and Lelah Bright, both of Shenandoah, Lucille Karrle and Maxine Edwards, both of St. Joseph, Mo., Frances Walton of Savannah, Mo., and LaDonna Good, of Denver, Colo; four grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

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