Ex-Pleasanton resident, 104
Lela Blanch Giles died Saturday, May 16, 1998, at St. Luke's Good Samaritan Village in Kearney, where she had lived since 1979.
Services will be held Wednesday at the United Methodist Church in Pleasanton with Rev. Rose Bartleson officiating. Burial will be in Pleasant Valley Cemetery northwest of Pleasanton.
Blanch was born October 4, 1893, daughter of Isaac Amos and Minnie Evelyn Hurn Fuller, at Rockford, Gage County, Nebraska, which is eight miles east of Beatrice, Nebraska.
When Blanch's mother remarried, the family moved to Peetz, Colorado. She met Rueben in her mother's kitchen. They were married and came to Miller, Nebraska in a buggy pulled by two gray broncos named Price and Soy.
Their daughter, Leola Marjorie was born in Miller on June 22, 1912. After leaving Miller, the Giles family made their home in Pleasanton in the former Adolphus Phillips home. Blanch was an important part of the Pleasant Valley church where she played the piano for services and later helped Rueben operate the cream station.
Blanch belonged to the Royal Neighbors club, Pleasanton United Methodist church, and also did beautiful needle work.
Rueben and Blanch lost their only child, Marjorie Mulqueen in a traffic accident November 7, 1951. Marjorie was a Registered Nurse and made her home in Carlsbad, California.
Rueben and Blanch retired in 1953. (Many of her Pleasanton friends helped her celebrate her one hundredth birthday. If she didn't remember these friends, she would say, "I just love you all!")
Survivors include her granddaughter Molly Mulqueen Golm of Everly, Iowa; and two great-grandchildren.
In addition to her husband,Rueben, she was preceded in death by her daughter, Marjorie; a sister, a brother and a half-brother.
Lela Blanch Giles died Saturday, May 16, 1998, at St. Luke's Good Samaritan Village in Kearney, where she had lived since 1979.
Services will be held Wednesday at the United Methodist Church in Pleasanton with Rev. Rose Bartleson officiating. Burial will be in Pleasant Valley Cemetery northwest of Pleasanton.
Blanch was born October 4, 1893, daughter of Isaac Amos and Minnie Evelyn Hurn Fuller, at Rockford, Gage County, Nebraska, which is eight miles east of Beatrice, Nebraska.
When Blanch's mother remarried, the family moved to Peetz, Colorado. She met Rueben in her mother's kitchen. They were married and came to Miller, Nebraska in a buggy pulled by two gray broncos named Price and Soy.
Their daughter, Leola Marjorie was born in Miller on June 22, 1912. After leaving Miller, the Giles family made their home in Pleasanton in the former Adolphus Phillips home. Blanch was an important part of the Pleasant Valley church where she played the piano for services and later helped Rueben operate the cream station.
Blanch belonged to the Royal Neighbors club, Pleasanton United Methodist church, and also did beautiful needle work.
Rueben and Blanch lost their only child, Marjorie Mulqueen in a traffic accident November 7, 1951. Marjorie was a Registered Nurse and made her home in Carlsbad, California.
Rueben and Blanch retired in 1953. (Many of her Pleasanton friends helped her celebrate her one hundredth birthday. If she didn't remember these friends, she would say, "I just love you all!")
Survivors include her granddaughter Molly Mulqueen Golm of Everly, Iowa; and two great-grandchildren.
In addition to her husband,Rueben, she was preceded in death by her daughter, Marjorie; a sister, a brother and a half-brother.
Ex-Pleasanton resident, 104
Lela Blanch Giles died Saturday, May 16, 1998, at St. Luke's Good Samaritan Village in Kearney, where she had lived since 1979.
Services will be held Wednesday at the United Methodist Church in Pleasanton with Rev. Rose Bartleson officiating. Burial will be in Pleasant Valley Cemetery northwest of Pleasanton.
Blanch was born October 4, 1893, daughter of Isaac Amos and Minnie Evelyn Hurn Fuller, at Rockford, Gage County, Nebraska, which is eight miles east of Beatrice, Nebraska.
When Blanch's mother remarried, the family moved to Peetz, Colorado. She met Rueben in her mother's kitchen. They were married and came to Miller, Nebraska in a buggy pulled by two gray broncos named Price and Soy.
Their daughter, Leola Marjorie was born in Miller on June 22, 1912. After leaving Miller, the Giles family made their home in Pleasanton in the former Adolphus Phillips home. Blanch was an important part of the Pleasant Valley church where she played the piano for services and later helped Rueben operate the cream station.
Blanch belonged to the Royal Neighbors club, Pleasanton United Methodist church, and also did beautiful needle work.
Rueben and Blanch lost their only child, Marjorie Mulqueen in a traffic accident November 7, 1951. Marjorie was a Registered Nurse and made her home in Carlsbad, California.
Rueben and Blanch retired in 1953. (Many of her Pleasanton friends helped her celebrate her one hundredth birthday. If she didn't remember these friends, she would say, "I just love you all!")
Survivors include her granddaughter Molly Mulqueen Golm of Everly, Iowa; and two great-grandchildren.
In addition to her husband,Rueben, she was preceded in death by her daughter, Marjorie; a sister, a brother and a half-brother.
Lela Blanch Giles died Saturday, May 16, 1998, at St. Luke's Good Samaritan Village in Kearney, where she had lived since 1979.
Services will be held Wednesday at the United Methodist Church in Pleasanton with Rev. Rose Bartleson officiating. Burial will be in Pleasant Valley Cemetery northwest of Pleasanton.
Blanch was born October 4, 1893, daughter of Isaac Amos and Minnie Evelyn Hurn Fuller, at Rockford, Gage County, Nebraska, which is eight miles east of Beatrice, Nebraska.
When Blanch's mother remarried, the family moved to Peetz, Colorado. She met Rueben in her mother's kitchen. They were married and came to Miller, Nebraska in a buggy pulled by two gray broncos named Price and Soy.
Their daughter, Leola Marjorie was born in Miller on June 22, 1912. After leaving Miller, the Giles family made their home in Pleasanton in the former Adolphus Phillips home. Blanch was an important part of the Pleasant Valley church where she played the piano for services and later helped Rueben operate the cream station.
Blanch belonged to the Royal Neighbors club, Pleasanton United Methodist church, and also did beautiful needle work.
Rueben and Blanch lost their only child, Marjorie Mulqueen in a traffic accident November 7, 1951. Marjorie was a Registered Nurse and made her home in Carlsbad, California.
Rueben and Blanch retired in 1953. (Many of her Pleasanton friends helped her celebrate her one hundredth birthday. If she didn't remember these friends, she would say, "I just love you all!")
Survivors include her granddaughter Molly Mulqueen Golm of Everly, Iowa; and two great-grandchildren.
In addition to her husband,Rueben, she was preceded in death by her daughter, Marjorie; a sister, a brother and a half-brother.
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