Gladys A. Beyer

Gladys A. Beyer, age 93, of Mt. Carroll, Illinois, died Monday, July 28, 2008, at Pleasant View Home Nursing Home, Morrison, Illinois. A funeral service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday, August 01, 2008, at the Frank-Law-Jones Funeral Home in Mt. Carroll, Illinois with Reverend Mark Harkness of the United Methodist Church, Mt. Carroll, officiating. Burial will take place in Oak Hill Cemetery, Mt. Carroll. Friends may call from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Thursday, July 31, 2008 at the Frank-Law-Jones Funeral Home in Mt. Carroll. Memorials may be given to the Mt. Carroll Fire Department in Gladys’s memory.

Gladys was born on June 13, 1915, the daughter of Walter and Mary Ellen (Noble) Troxell. On March 7, 1940, Gladys married Glenn Stephen Beyer in Clinton, Iowa. Glenn passed away on November 3, 1983 in Clinton.

Gladys worked seventeen years in the Mt. Carroll High School Cafeteria as a Cook. Her hobbies were knitting, doing puzzles, traveling, and playing cards with friends and family. She enjoyed calling her family and friends on the phone and following her grandchildren’s activities.

Gladys is survived by son, Richard G. (Shirley) Beyer of Rock Falls, Illinois; her daughter, Carol R. (Lyle) Cartwright of Chadwick, Illinois; six grandchildren, Terri Scott, Joe (Stephanie) Cartwright, Lisa Elmendorf, Angie (Kevin) Krol, Michael (Leanne) Beyer, Beth Beyer; eleven great grandchildren and five great-great grandchild.

Gladys is preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Glenn; three brothers, and a sister, two grandchildren, and a great grandson.