Mona Gaylene Booth (1935 - 2018)

BOOTH, RUEBSAM, MATZDORFF, GANO

Posted By: County Coordinator (email)
Date: 7/25/2025 at 22:59:40

Mona Gaylene Booth
Monda Gaylene Booth, 83, of Cherokee, Iowa, passed away peacefully, Tuesday evening, November 13, 2018, at Accura Healthcare in Cherokee.

Funeral services will be held on Saturday, November 17th at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Cherokee, Iowa. Burial will be in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery at Aurelia, Iowa.

Gaylene was born August 13, 1935, at Aurelia, Iowa to Walter & Florence (Ruebsam) Matzdorff. She grew up on a farm near Aurelia. She graduated from Aurelia High School in 1953 and then attended Buena Vista College for one year. Gaylene was married to Lyle W. Booth on September 12, 1953, at Jackson, Minnesota.

Gaylene had worked at the Cherokee Mental Health Institute, Lundell Manufacturing, Miller-Mac Insurance Co., Loughlin Law Firm, Mid-Step Services and assisted her husband with Booth Electric and Booth Sound. She was a member of the Trinity Lutheran Church in Cherokee. She had been a resident of Cherokee the past 65 years.

Gaylene enjoyed sewing, bowling, spending time with her friends, and working with her husband at the county fairs and concerts with their sound business.

She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband Lyle on October 12, 1997.

She is survived by several cousins, nieces and nephews, including Laverne Gano of Cherokee, Iowa and many friends. (Source: Chronicle Times, published in Cherokee, Iowa, Fri., Nov 16, 2018, pg. 2)