Gladys Delight (Enabnit) WILKIE

WILKIE, ENABNIT, MAYER, HALL, PRITCHARD, ALDERSON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 3/29/2010 at 10:29:09

December 7, 2005
The Garner Leader & Signal -- Iowa

Gladys D. Wilkie, of Kanawha, died on Tuesday, November 22, 2005, at the Kanawha Community Home. She was 100. Memorial services were held on Saturday, December 3, at the United Methodist Church, Kanawha. The Rev. Cynthia Morrison officiated. Music was provided by organist, Barbrara Csomay, who accompanied congregational hymns. Bill Harson and Lyle Zeigler ushered. Interment was in the Amsterdam Township Cemetery, Kanawha. The Ewing-Dugger Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangements.

Gladys Delight (Enabnit) Wilkie, the daughter of Christ and Anna Mayer Enabnit, was born on April 29, 1905 in Meservey. She married D. L. Wilkie Sr. on September 27, 1924, at the home of her parents in Des Moines. The couple lived in Des Moines where Luck managed the Red Ball Grocery Store until 1926, when they moved to Manly. They were co-owners of the Enabnit-Wilkie Grocery and Dry Goods Store until December of 1936 when they purchased the grocery store in Kanawha, which Gladys ran alongside her husband. She retired after 62 years in the grocery business. Gladys was involved with her family, church and community. She was a founding member of the American Legion, sold war bonds during WW II, and spearheaded the campaign to get Kanawha's band their first uniforms. She wrote news for over 40 years for the newspapers in Kanawha, Britt, Belmond and Clarion.

She was a member of the Kanawha United Methodist Church, A.M. Bible Study, Sr. Bible Class, Sunday School, Administrative Board and Ecumenical Officer of Devotions. She was also a member of the A.B.C. Club, life time member of the Kanawha Women's Club, life time member of the Order of Eastern Star, Past President Parley, Past President of American Legion Auxiliary, member of the Netaker Temple Daughters of the Nile, Merry Makers Club, life time member of the Hancock County Historical Society, Paradise Club (O.E.S. Past Matrons), Elm Club, bridge club and book club. Gladys deeply valued her family, her church community, her community, and her many friends. She loved to play cards, entertain friends, and write poetry and verses. One of her last efforts was to organize the ecumenical vespers program at the community home.

Survivors include her three children, Rose Eileen Hall of Dubuque, David Wilkie of Ventura and friend, Sally Pritchard and Deloris Alderson of Idaho Falls, Idaho; seven grandchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Luck; and a stillborn daughter, Mabel.