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Gaskill, Josephine L.
Josephine L. Gaskill, 100, of Waterloo, formerly of Arlington, died Sunday morning, Jan. 15, 2012, at Cedar Valley Hospice Home in Waterloo. Funeral services: 11 a.m. Saturday at the United Methodist Church in Arlington, with Pastor Lisa Schroeder officiating. Visitation: one hour before services at the church. Interment: Taylorsville Cemetery. Arrangements with Jamison-Schmitz Funeral Home in Arlington.
Josephine Lucille Curtis was born Sept. 13, 1911, in Tripp County, Dog Ear Township, located in rural South Dakota near the small town of Colome. She was the daughter of Harley B. and Etta B. (Martin) Curtis. She attended eight years of school in a one room rural school and graduated from Colome High School in 1930. She then attended Southern State Teachers College, Springfield, S.D., and received her teachers certificate. She taught in Colome area rural schools and rode her horse “Nancy” to school. Some of her students were her younger sisters.
On June 15, 1935, Josephine was married to Vincent Challand Gaskill in the home of her parents. This marriage lasted 66 years until Vincent's death in 2002. Josephine and Vincent farmed in the Colome area until 1940, when they moved to a farm near Arlington, Iowa, where they continued farming until their move to an acreage in Arlington in March 1948. Josephine was an active partner in the farming operations and a busy homemaker, involved in many activities at the Arlington United Methodist Church and the community.
She was a loving wife, mother and grandmother.
Josephine is survived by her daughter, Joanne Gaskill Astor and husband Dr. Gary Astor of Fort Dodge; two sons, Wayne Gaskill and wife Susan of Cedar Rapids and Rodney Gaskill of Waterloo; 12 grandchildren; two stepgrandsons; 26 great-grandchildren; seven great-great-grandchildren; a
sister, Emma Carithers of Youngtown, Ariz.; and a sister-in-law, Lorna Bergner and husband Lawrence of Chamberlain, S.D.
She was preceded in death by her parents; and husband, Vincent C. Gaskill on April 16, 2002.
Memorials may be given to the Arlington United Methodist Church and the Ridgeway Place Assisted Living, 155 East Ridgeway, Waterloo, IA 50702.
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Published in The Gazette Jan. 21, 2012
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