Dorothy Nellie (Miller) GOSE

GOSE, MILLER, GUITZKOW, SHAW, MAYES, ALLISON, BAKER, LIND, GEZEL, PETERSON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 4/14/2017 at 23:30:10

March 27, 1922 ----- April 10, 2017

Dorothy Gose, 95, of Afton died Monday, April 10, 2017, at her home. Celebration of life memorial services will be 1 p.m. Saturday, April 15, at Powers Funeral Home, junction of highways 34 and 25, in Creston. The Rev. Mary O'Riley will officiate. Private family burial will be at a later date at Greenlawn Cemetery in Afton. Open memorial visitation with family present will be from noon to 1 p.m. before the service Saturday. Memorials are to Gibson Memorial Library.

Dorothy Nellie Gose, daughter of Frank V. Miller and Ida A. (Guitzkow), was born March 27, 1922, in Belmond. She graduated from Clarion High School as the valedictorian of her class in 1939. After high school, she worked for a lawyer doing clerical and abstract work. Dorothy later began working for First National Bank in Clarion.

On Sept. 10, 1947, Dorothy married Bueford Eugene Gose in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. They settled in Clarion, where Dorothy continued in banking. Next, they moved to Fort Dodge, where Dorothy was an active mother, homemaker and worked at an area bank about 10 years as the head bookkeeper, and also helped Bueford with their small neighborhood grocery store. In 1966, they moved to Afton where Dorothy stayed busy helping with the farm. Dorothy was a member of the Creston United Methodist Church, United Methodist Women and Post Script Club.

Dorothy is survived by her daughters, Joan Gose of Sully, Gerene (John) Shaw of Fenton, Pamela Mayes of Ft. Collins, Colorado, and Wendy Gose of Gilmore City; grandchildren, Vern (Lisa) Allison of Hazelwood, Missouri, Janelle (Heath) Baker of Leonard, Texas, Mandee (Tim) Lind of Ames, Donavan (Megan) Mayes of Ft. Collins, Colorado, and Kimberly Gezel of Des Moines; 12 great-grandchildren; sister Merlene Peterson of Eagle Grove and many nieces, nephews and other family. Dorothy was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Bueford "Doc" Gose in 2006; brothers, Gilbert and Donald Miller; sister Lucille and father-in-law Sidney (Gertrude) Gose.

Creston News-Advertiser --- Creston, Iowa
April 12, 2017