WORKMAN, Gertrude Bogart "Truie" (1886-1987)

WORKMAN, BOGART

Posted By: Elaine Harrington (email)
Date: 11/18/2006 at 22:29:42

OPINION TRIBUNE DATED
SEPTEMBER 30, 1987

Funeral services for Gertrude (Truie) Workman, 100, of Glenwood, were Sept. 28, 1987 at Grace United Methodist Church in Glenwood.

The Rev. Dougas J. Anderson and the Rev. Perry Biship officiated. Burial was the the Glenwood Cemetery.

Workman died just nine days after her 102 year-old sister, Nell Bogart, died. The two were room-mates at the Glen Haven Nursing Home in Glenwood.

Truie was born Nov. 7, 1886, on a farm near Springfield, Neb. Two years later, her family moved to Glenwood where she had been ever since.

Truie graduated from Glenwood High School in 1903 and that fall she went to Cornell College at Mt. Vernon, where her sister, Nell, was attending.

In 1907, she graduated from Cornell and taught school for a few years.

In 1913, she married Fred Workman. He had been elected to the Iowa Legislature as a Democrat from Mills County and they spent their honeymoon in Des Moines, going to Legislative sessions.

They then returned to Glenwood to go into the shoe business.

Fred and Truie had three children, Frederic, Barbara and Laurie.

Truie served on the school board for 15 years and was active in the Methodist Church.

In 1944, Fred died and her sister Nell came to live with Truie, which was a pleasant arrangement for both of them. Truie has enjoyed the friendships made in P.E.O. very much through the years.

Survivors include one son, Lawrence Workman of Glenwood; six grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.

Peterson Mortuary was in charge of services.

Pallbearers wre the Rev. Perry Bishop, Robert Buffington, Halden Altekruse, Donald Bruce, Robert Dean and John Dean.