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Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 9/22/2010 at 20:46:07

History of Woodbury County, Iowa 1984

Robert Gill
By Frances Fymbo

Robert Franklin Gill was born in Arkansas but the family moved to Celeste, Texas, where they lived for many years. He married Lilly Lyday. They had a large family but only two boys and lived to adulthood: Clyde Gill, born February 2, 1903 and Robert Lyday, born September 15, 1908. Their mother died in childbirth when Robert was three years old. Then the boys with their father moved to Hooker, Oklahoma, where they had relatives. Mr Franklin Gill was a carpenter and the two boys learned the trade from him as they worked with him. Robert Lyday Gill graduated from high school and played some football when he was in college. Robert Gill came to South Dakota, working with the Jarvis Construction Company, building airbases including one at Mitchell, and one at Sioux Falls.

He met Agnes Nold, a teacher at the Molskness School. Because times were hard, they waited four years during which time Agnes continued to teach school at Flandreau, South Dakota. They were married in her home in Colman, December 28, 1935. She finished the school year in Flandreau and taught the next year in Colman. Their first child, a daughter, Joyce Lorraine, was born July 8, 1938, in Colman, South Dakota.

As his work took him from place to place they moved about a great deal and met and made many friends. Agnes has kept an interesting record of their homes and pictures of their friends. Their second child, Robert Emery Gill was born June 17, 1943. Mr Gill continued with Jarvis Construction in the airbase construction work in South Dakota and Nebraska until 1944 when they moved to Sergeant Bluuf, and he worked on the Sergeant Bluff airbase for the duration of the war. Then he continued in highway construction work with a company from Onawa. During the off season for construction, he was employed at the Ballou Brick Compnay.

Mr Gill was a member of the Morningside Lutheran Church. He was active in Boy Scout work. He served on the town council for four years and was elected mayor in 1956. He was a serving his second term when he was stricken with a heart attack while watching his son play Junior High football. He died October 22, 1958.

Agnes Nold was the daughter of Haagen and Julia Nold who came to America form Norway. Haagen Nold was born in Norway, February 14, 1865. He came to America in 1883 and made his home in Minnehaha County until 1892, when he moved to a farm near Colman, South Dakota. A few years later he returned to Norway and brought his sister, Josephine, and his boyhood sweetheart, Julia, to America. They were married in South Daktoa and went to live on the farm near Colman. Eight children were born to them. They were two boys – one son died in infancy and one son, Olaf, now lives in Flandreau, South Dakota. Four of the daughters were teachers, Agnes being one. Julia Halseth was born in Norway, December 31, 1879, and came to America when she was nineteen. She became a member of the Hegre Lutheran Church. They raised their family on the farm. Mr Nold died in his home in Colman Township, January 4, 1919. Mrs Nold moved to Madison to live with her daughter, Clara. She was living with her daughter, Agnes, in Sergeant Bluff when she passed away, October 14, 1950.

Mrs Robert Gill ‘Agnes’ had worked for the Sergeant Bluff High School for ten years when her husband passed away, she decided to return to college and receive her B.A. degree from Morningside in 1966. She had taught the first grade at Sergeant Bluff Elementary School for fourteen years when she retired.

Joyce Lorraine Gill graduated form high school in 1956 and married Robert Butler, June 21, 1957. They had two children – one son, Gregory, and one daughter, Julie. They both graduated from SBHS. Greg attended Iowa State University at Ames and one in Kansas City.

Julie married Robert Hike of Belleview, Nebraska. They have one son, Bobby Lee Hike, born September 10, 1981.

Robert Emery Gill graduated from theSBHA in 1961. He married Linda Hookman in 1964. He was a member of the National Guard and in 1968 he spent nine months in Vietnam. They live in Kansas City, where he died October 2, 1974, at thirty-one years of age. Robert and Linda had one child, a daughter, Robin Lynn Gill, who graduated from high school in Kansas City and is attending college thre in 1984.


 

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