GULLICKSON, Cleo 1917-2004

GULLICKSON

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 12/8/2004 at 21:47:19

Cleo Marian Gullickson, 87, of Northwood, died on Wednesday, December 1, 2004 at the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit, Mason City, Iowa. Funeral service were held on Saturday, December 4 at 11 a.m. at the First Lutheran Church, Northwood, with Rev. Wayne Hagen officiating. Burial was at the Sunset Rest Cemetery, Northwood. Visitation was on Friday from 5 to 7 p.m. at Schroeder & Sites Funeral Home in Northwood.

Cleo M. Juhl was born August 22, 1917 near Waltham, Minnesota to Nicholas Paulson Juhl and Bertha Mae (Hadsell) Juhl. She was baptized and confirmed at First Lutheran Church, Northwood, as a young adult. Until the last months of eighth-grade she attended rural schools in the Burchinal, Rockwell and Mason City areas. She completed grade school in six years and graduated from Northwood High School at age 16. Cleo married C. Donald Gullickson at the Lutheran Parsonage in Mason City on February 22, 1936. She and Donald lived and farmed near Northwood until Donald's death in 1970. She moved to Northwood in 1971, living in her home there until July 1989 when she moved to Maple Court Apartments where she lived until her death. She was a devoted helpmate to her husband on the farm, a homemaker and a loving mother, grandmother and great grandmother throughout her life.

Cleo is survived by two daughters, Donna (Richard) Tuttle, Albert Lea and Jan (Roger) Dahlby, Northwood; two sisters, Edna Hanson, Stewartville, MN and Hazel Troe, Hampton, IA; five grandchildren- Dawn (Mark) Tietz, Greenville, SC, Randy Tuttle, Dallas, TX, Rochelle (John) Reding, Hermitage, TN, Darin (Teri) Dahlby, Northwood and Anne Olson, Mason City; twelve great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, C. Donald, a daughter Anne Cooper in 1962, her parents, three sisters, Esther, as a young child, Phyllis Ballandby and Helen Johnson, a step brother Delbert Juhl and step sister, Charlotte Luick.

Source: Northwood Anchor Online, 12/08/2004