Gladys Keesey Armstrong (1990)

ARMSTRONG, KEESEY, RICHARDSON, EDMISTON, BEAMAN, DERSHEM, MARSH

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Date: 1/14/2007 at 16:15:07

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
August 22, 1990

GLADYS ARMSTRONG, Van Meter

Mrs. Gladys Armstrong, a life-long resident of the Van Meter-DeSoto area, died Tues., Aug. 7, 1990, at Des Moines General Hospital. She was 86 years of age.

She was born May 23, 1904 at Kennedy Station, Iowa, the daughter of Charles and Alma Keesey. She married John Armstrong on February 14, 1923.

She was preceded in death by her husband, a daughter, Joanne Richardson, and a granddaughter, Margaret Edmiston.

She is survived by four daughters, Berneal Edmiston of Davenport, Phyllis Beaman of Taylor, Wisconsin, Eileen Dershem of Overland Park, Kansas, and Viola Marsh of Mercer, Missouri; two sons, Eugene Armstrong of Booneville, and John Armstrong of Van Meter; two brothers, Floyd Keesey of Winterset, and Lyman Keesey of Panora; twenty five grandchildren, and twenty-eight great grandchildren.

Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon August 12 at Fisher Funeral home in Van Meter. Burial was in the Van Meter Cemetery.