Gladys Anderson
A funeral service was Aug. 13 in Elbert for Gladys Viola
Anderson, who died Aug. 10, in Castle Rock. She was 100.
Interment was at Elizabeth Cemetery.
Born July 9, 1903, in Donegal, Kan., she was the fifth of six
children.
As a young girl her family moved to Herington, Kan., where her
family operated a small hotel. In 1913 her father started
homesteading in southeastern Colorado. She lived in a three-room
dugout house with her family until she moved to Seibert, where she
lived with her sister and went to high school.
She graduated from high school in 1921 and began teaching. In
1923 she taught at Goldale School in Douglas County. It was while
there that she met her future husband, Emil Anderson, and the
couple married July 9, 1925. He preceded her in death.
Gladys and her husband purchased and farmed the Crosswhite place
along Cherry Creek, where they lived the rest of their
lives.
Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by five siblings,
two daughters and two grandsons. She is survived by her daughter,
Beverly Gresham, and her husband, Allen; seven grandchildren; 18
great-grandchildren; and two sons-in-law, Everett Heidemann and
Virgil Brauer.
Memorial contributions can be made in her name to the Cantril
House Assisted Living, 221 Cantril St., Castle Rock, CO
80104.
Olinger Andrews Caldwell Gibson Funeral Home of Castle Rock made
arrangements.