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Bessie Clouser Gildersleeve (-2008)

GILDERSLEEVE, CLOUSER, RECORD, SHICKELL, RICE, ROBISON, SMITH, LIQUIN

Posted By: Ames Tribune
Date: 1/13/2008 at 09:22:28

THE AMES TRIBUNE, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Sunday, January 13, 2008.

Bessie Clouser Gildersleeve, 104, of Gilbert, died Friday, Jan. 11, at Bethany Manor in Story City. Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 15, at Bethany Manor Chapel with visitation from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 14. Burial will be in Gilbert Cemetery.

Bessie was the daughter of George and Nellie (Record) Clouser. She was born in the Champaign/Urbana area in Illinois and moved with her parents to a farm near Gilbert when she was three years old. She attended Gilbert schools and graduated in 1920. She then took a normal training course at what is now the University of Northern Iowa, and taught in country schools for 1 1/2 years. She married John Gildersleeve Jan. 3, 1923, and moved to the farm near Gilbert where she lived until moving to Bethany Manor in June 2006. She was a helpmate on the farm and active in Gilbert Congregational Church (now Grace Bible Church) which she joined in 1922.

She is survived by two daughters, Ruth (Les) Shickell, of Ames, and Mildred Rice, of Gilbert; one daughter-in-law, Jean Gildersleeve, of Boone; one sister, Evelyn Harriman Robison, of Stratford; two sisters-in-law, Leona Clouser, of Madrid, and Mildred Gildersleeve, of Rochert, Minn.; one brother-in-law, Dale Smith, of Ames; 12 grandchildren; 28 great-grandchildren; and 20 great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, John; one son, Lloyd; one granddaughter, Marla Gildersleeve Liquin; one grandson, John Benjamin Gildersleeve; four sisters and one brother. She leaves a host of family and friends to mourn her passing.

Memorials may be given to Grace Bible Church in Gilbert or Homeward Hospice in Ames.

Soderstrum Funeral Home in Story City is in charge of arrangements.

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