This is a Message Board Post. Reply to the message or author by clicking on the link below. *************************************************************************** MESSAGE: (#267444) Glendora Marie (Glenny) Gerdes <http://iagenweb.org/boards/louisa/obituaries/index.cgi?rev=267444> AUTHOR: Mari Nielsen - DATE: 2/22/2010 at 23:31:33 Surnames: GERDES,BRIDGES,DOWNS,CARSON,GUENTHER,ROBERTSON,KEMP GLENDORA MARIE (GLENNY) GERDES Mrs. Glendora Marie (Glenny) Gerdes, 60, Burlington Rt. 3, died in University hospitals, Iowa City, at 5:25 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 14. She was the daughter of Hamilton and Marie Bridges Downs, and was born March 16, 1920, at Wapello. She married William T. Gerdes June 21, 1945, in Burlington. Mrs. Gerdes was a registered nurse and was part-owner of Benson True Value Lumber & Hardware Co. She was a member of Oak Street Baptist church and it’s Women’s Missionary Fellowship and of Jane Delano Assn. She was a former Des Moines 4-H leader. Surviving: The husband; son William T., Jr., Burlington; two daughters, Sue Carson, Boulder, Colo., and Becky Jo Guenther, Ft. Madison; two sisters, Donna Robertson, Grandview, and Lila Kemp, Wapello; and two grandchildren. Funeral: 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Oak Street Baptist church, the Rev. B. Lawrence Sweeney; Aspen Grove cemetery. A memorial has been established for Oak Street church at Prugh’s Chapel. Source: newspaper clipping with handwritten death date of January 14, 1981