Smith, Gloria

Gloria Smith, age 84, of Anamosa, died Monday morning, Sept. 7, 2009, at the Anamosa Care Center following an extended illness. Funeral services: 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the Goettsch Funeral Home, Anamosa, with interment in the Riverside Cemetery with Military Honors. Friends may call from 3 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Goettsch Funeral Home, Anamosa. The Rev. Laurie Riley will officiate at the services.

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Surviving are three children, Pam (Doug Cameron) Mollenhauer of Marion, Sarah (Ron) Nemmers of Anamosa, and Jeff (Melba) Smith of West Liberty; 12 grandchildren, Jennifer McVay, Tiffanie Mollenhauer, Melissa Reiling, Brent Mollenhauer, Eric, Tony, Scott, and Dan Nemmers, Mike and Andrea Smith, and Damien and Veronica Collins; nine great-grandchildren; and two sisters, Patricia Witt of Waco, Texas, and Sharon Bird, Austin, Texas.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; a son, Gary; and a sister, Helen Peele.

Gloria Marie Berry was born Jan. 30, 1925, at Waco, Texas. She was the daughter of Elsa and Hellen Lytton Berry. She attended school in Waco and then started working as a telephone operator for Houston Title Guarantee Company. She enlisted in the United States Navy on Feb. 28, 1944, during World War II. Gloria met her future husband, Lowrie Smith while in the Navy. The couple married on March 21, 1945, at the Navel Air Station in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Gloria worked for the Boy Scouts of America in Cedar Rapids from 1966 until 1968. From 1968 until she retired in 1990, she was employed by American Trust and Savings Bank in Dubuque. The couple moved to Anamosa in 1990, and to the Anamosa Care Center in July of 2004. Lowrie preceded her in death on Oct. 24, 2008. The couple loved to camp and spent many winters in the Corpus Christi, Texas area.