Gladys M. Cole 1910-2002

COLE JENSEN EIDEM

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 7/12/2011 at 22:22:34

Sioux City Journal
10 Feb 2002

Gladys M. Cole, 91, of Sioux City died Thursday, Feb. 7, 2002, at a South Sioux City nursing home following a lengthy illness.

Services will be 11:30 a.m. Monday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church with the Rev. Bruce Lawler officiating. Graveside services will be 2:30 p.m. Monday at St. Joseph Cemetery in Anthon, Iowa. Visitation will be 1 to 9 p.m. today, with family present 6 to 8 p.m., at Larkin Northside Funeral Home.

Gladys was born Sept. 11, 1910, in Elk Point, S.D., the daughter of Gilbert and Mary (Jensen) Eidem. She was raised on a farm in Elk Point and graduated from Elk Point High School. She married Leo Albert Cole on Feb. 7, 1942, in Sioux City. The couple farmed in the Anthon area for 10 years before they moved to town. They moved to Sioux City in 1977. Leo died Feb. 29, 1988, in Sioux City. She was a homemaker.

She was a former member of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Anthon, and Nativity and St. Michael Catholic Churches in Sioux City. She was a member of the Catholic Daughters of America in Anthon, and the Sioux City Eagles Club. She enjoyed walking and dancing.

Survivors include three sons and their wives, John R. and Jean of Mc Cook Lake, Patrick J. and Joanie of Huxley, Iowa, and Larry M. and Peg of O'Neill, Neb.; a daughter and her husband, Mary Lou and John Grider of Lexington, Ky.; 10 grandchildren, Tammy Reiff, Jay and Scott Cole, Brad and Lance Cole, Neil and Liz Cole, Shannon and Brian Graff and Tracy Grider; seven great-grandchildren, Zachrey, Nathan, Madison, Andrew, Hannah, Tyler and Cade; three sisters, Bernice and her husband, John Cwynar of Hawthorne, Calif., Florence Wagner of Vermillion, S.D., and Margie and her husband, Bob Walsh of Elk Point.

She also was preceded in death by a brother and four sisters.

Pallbearers will be her grandchildren.

A memorial has been established in her name for the Alzheimer's Unit at Matney Colonial Manor in South Sioux City.