Gladys M Ulven 1919-2000

ULVEN SUTTON STANLEY

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 2/15/2010 at 18:22:16

Sioux City Journal
20 January 2000

Onawa, Iowa—Gladys M. Ulven, 80, of Onawa, died Tuesday, January 18, 2000, at Burgess Health Center in Onawa.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Pearson Funeral Chapel in Onawa, with the Rev. Donald Ludwick officiating. Burial will be in Onawa Cemetery. Visitation will be 6-8 p.m. Friday, with the family present 7 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home.

Mrs. Ulven was born August 9, 1919, in Decatur, Nebraska, the daughter of George and Bertha (Sutton) Stanley. From the age of four, she was raised by William and Mary Titze. She graduated from Tekamah (Neb) High School.

She married Elmer O Ulven in April 1939. She was employed with J.C. Penney’s in Tekamah and in the ladies department at Brandeis in Omaha. She later owned and operated her dress stores, Style Shop and Price is Right, both in Onawa. She then operated a craft store in Onawa. She had been a resident of Pleasant View Care Center in Whiting, Iowa for three years.

She was baptized in the Baptist faith and enjoyed painting and taking classes.

Survivors include a daughter and her husband, Cathy and Leland Rickabaugh of Whiting, a son and his wife, Rodney and Jean of Onawa; four grandchildren, Joey Spitz, Lynn and Chad Rickabaugh and Travis Ulven; a sister, Nora Sutton of Indiana; and three sisters-in-law Dorothy Stanley of Sloan, Iowa, Opal Stanley of Sioux City and Donna Stanley of Camdenton. Mo.

She was preceded in death by her parents; foster parents; four brothers, Robert Byron, Gerald and Bill; three sisters, Hazel, Gertrude and Leta and a brother and sister in infancy.