Sadie Elvina (Dahl) GENTRY

GENTRY, DAHL, GUNSELL

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 2/26/2007 at 13:30:09

October 12, 2004

Sadie Elvina Gentry, 92, of Belmond, died on Saturday, October 9, 2004, at the Hampton Health Care Center. Funeral services were held on Wednesday, October 13, at the Dugger Ewing Funeral Home, with Pastor Lowell Halvorson officiating. Burial was in the Amsterdam Township Cemetery, Kanawha.

Sadie, the daughter of Thomas and Esther (Gunsell) Dahl, was born on March 2, 1912 in Hancock County, the oldest of three children. She grew up in the Kanawha area and attended the Kanawha High School. Sadie married Edward Gentry on December 21, 1935 in Eagle Grove. The couple made their home in Belmond. For a time they operated the theater. Sadie held many jobs. She was employed by the theaters in Sheffield and Belmond, at Redder Drug in Belmond, and as a nurse's aide at the hospital in Belmond. She entered the Belmond Health Care Center in 1995 and later transferred to the Hampton Care Center. She was a member of the St. John's Lutheran Church and the ladies aid.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; and brother, Everett. Sadie is survived by her son, Donald Gentry of Glendale, Arizona; grandchildren, Curtis, Brian, Darrin, Doug and Jodie; and brother, William Dahl of Kanawha.

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