SCHOOLEY, Gladys G. 1901-1999

SCHOOLEY, MORGAN, GRANT, HENDRIKS, FILLMORE, MORRISON

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Date: 2/23/2013 at 12:48:04

The Fairfield Ledger (Ia.)
Page 10 - Tuesday, October 5, 1999

Gladys G. Schooley

Gladys G. Schooley, 97, died Monday morning, Oct. 4, 1999, in Brighton. She had been in failing health.

The funeral service with a P.E.O. memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at the Brighton United Church with the Rev. Kitch Shatzer officiating. Burial will be in Hillcrest Cemetery in Brighton. The Brighton Order of the Eastern Star will hold a memorial service at 7 p.m. Thursday at Gould Funeral Home in Brighton. Family visitation will be from 7-8:30 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. A memorial has been established for the Brighton United Church or the Brighton Volunteer First Responders.

Mrs. Schooley was born Dec. 12, 1901 in Rio, Ill., the daughter of Thomas Elmer and Tott Flossie Morgan Grant. She married Laton Schooley Dec. 19, 1921, in Brighton. He died May 31, 1981.

The family moved to Rubio when she was a young girl and she attended country school. She graduated from Richland High School in 1918 and attended William Penn College in Oskaloosa for one year.

Mrs. Schooley was primarily a homemaker, but she also served also as a railroad cook for one summer, worked at the Brighton Book Bindery for many years, Brighton Sundries for several years, was a published poet, worked as the Brighton Enterprise, later the Richland Plainsman/Clarion, the Fairfield Ledger and the Washington, Iowa, Journal.

She was a member of the Brighton United Church, Naomi Circle, American Legion Auxiliary, Oreder of the Eastern Star, PEO, TTT, Pythian sisters, Writes Round Table, Brighton Study Club, Harmony Club, Willing Workers, a Brighton Library volunteer and elected 1998 Woman of the Year by the Business and Professional Women of District 1.

Survivors include two daughters, Virginia Hendriks of Bowden, Alberta, Canada, and Helen Fillmore of Burlington; two sons, Lee and Stanley Schooley, both of Brighton; 13 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; six great-great-grandchildren; and one sister, Shirley Morrison of Oskaloosa.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents; one son, Norman Schooley; one grandson; one great-grandson; two brothers; and one sister.

(Transcribed for genealogical purposes only. I am of no relation.)