Marie Henrietta (Mensing) GILMORE

GILMORE, MENSING, HORSTMANN, FISHER, OSE, SHEPHERD, WERNEBURG, HEIDEN, WEBER

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 8/4/2010 at 09:34:54

December 18, 1922 -- August 1, 2010

IOWA FALLS, IA - Marie H. Gilmore, age 87, of Iowa Falls died on Sunday (Aug. 1, 2010) at Scenic Manor Nursing Home in Iowa Falls. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Immanuel Memorial UCC in Alden with burial in the Alden Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Surls Funeral Home in Iowa Falls. Marie Henrietta Gilmore was born on Dec. 18, 1922, in Alden, the daughter of Fred and Martha (Horstmann) Mensing. She graduated from the Iowa Falls High School in 1940 and the Thompson Beauty School in Des Moines. On Oct. 16, 1946, Marie was united in marriage to Jack Gilmore at the Presbyterian Church in Dows by Pastor M. L. Blake. She was a beauty operator, retiring in 1946 and she had moved to Cedar Ridge on Feb. 2, 2004. Marie was a member of the Immanuel Memorial United Church of Christ in Alden since Feb. 8, 1953. She was also a member of the Order of Eastern Star where she was a past Worthy Matron, a member of the Legion Auxiliary and served in social clubs.

Marie is survived by her husband, Jack; three daughters: Jacalyn Fisher of Clear Lake, Judy Ose of Blairsburg and Jane Shepherd of Ames; seven grandchildren: Brooke (Fisher) Werneburg, Blair Fisher, Erin (Ose) Heiden, Michael Ose, Lindsey (Ose) Weber, Seth Shepherd and Blake Shepherd; and seven great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents and her brothers, Keith, Beryl, Dick and Kenneth Mensing. Surls Funeral Home, 505 Stevens St., Iowa Falls.

Mason City Globe Gazette - Iowa
August 2, 2010