Father: Adolph Gashel (1873-1964)
Mother: Caroline Elizabeth Beers Gashel (1879-1957). Both are buried in Riverside Cemetery, Rockford, Iowa.
Married: Harold Frank Seaver (1901-1986). Married 28 Nov. 1929, Cedar Falls, Iowa, at the home of her parents. Thanksgiving Day.
Children: Marilyn Ione, Donald Allen, Charlene Ruth.
Gladys was born and grew up in Rock Falls, Iowa, a small town of about 200 people. It was on the Rock Island Railroad, where her father worked as a section foreman. The town had no electricity, no running water, no indoor plumbing, but everyone in town lived that way so there was no ammenities that some had and others did not. There was a good township school and Gladys considered that she got a good education, passing all the state exams with high honors. Her graduating class consisted of just her and one other girl, but the town gave them a graduation ceremony and party, the band played, and that was the way it was in this small town.
After high school, she tried one semester of college at I.S.T.C. in Cedar Falls, decided that teaching was not her career, so worked in the general store in Rock Falls until she could save enough money to enroll in business school at Mason City. It was at Rock Falls she met Harold as he was working next door in the garage.
Gladys did get to Hamilton Business School and started classes there Jan. 1921. She excelled and when an offer came to go to work in the Courthouse at Garner, she accepted the job and did not finish school. At Garner, she worked her way up to Deputy County Auditor, leaving to get married. In those days, if a women married,she was expected not to work.
After marriage and some time on the road while Harold worked on road construction in the midst of the great depression, eventually they came to Cedar Falls, built a house in 1934 and lived in the house for the rest of their lives, adding an addition on at some point to accomodate the family of five.
Gladys loved to read, and always had a book or magazine open. She made many quilts, hand sewing them all, no sewing machine. Members of the family now are in possession of some of the quilts. She was active in the Rebbeca Lodge of the Odd Fellows, had a part time job at the local newspaper, traveled extensively, and had an active life until the last few years of her life. She suffered a stroke and died in the local hospital, but had managed to be in her own home till the end.
(bio by M.Andersen, Nov. 2010)
Mother: Caroline Elizabeth Beers Gashel (1879-1957). Both are buried in Riverside Cemetery, Rockford, Iowa.
Married: Harold Frank Seaver (1901-1986). Married 28 Nov. 1929, Cedar Falls, Iowa, at the home of her parents. Thanksgiving Day.
Children: Marilyn Ione, Donald Allen, Charlene Ruth.
Gladys was born and grew up in Rock Falls, Iowa, a small town of about 200 people. It was on the Rock Island Railroad, where her father worked as a section foreman. The town had no electricity, no running water, no indoor plumbing, but everyone in town lived that way so there was no ammenities that some had and others did not. There was a good township school and Gladys considered that she got a good education, passing all the state exams with high honors. Her graduating class consisted of just her and one other girl, but the town gave them a graduation ceremony and party, the band played, and that was the way it was in this small town.
After high school, she tried one semester of college at I.S.T.C. in Cedar Falls, decided that teaching was not her career, so worked in the general store in Rock Falls until she could save enough money to enroll in business school at Mason City. It was at Rock Falls she met Harold as he was working next door in the garage.
Gladys did get to Hamilton Business School and started classes there Jan. 1921. She excelled and when an offer came to go to work in the Courthouse at Garner, she accepted the job and did not finish school. At Garner, she worked her way up to Deputy County Auditor, leaving to get married. In those days, if a women married,she was expected not to work.
After marriage and some time on the road while Harold worked on road construction in the midst of the great depression, eventually they came to Cedar Falls, built a house in 1934 and lived in the house for the rest of their lives, adding an addition on at some point to accomodate the family of five.
Gladys loved to read, and always had a book or magazine open. She made many quilts, hand sewing them all, no sewing machine. Members of the family now are in possession of some of the quilts. She was active in the Rebbeca Lodge of the Odd Fellows, had a part time job at the local newspaper, traveled extensively, and had an active life until the last few years of her life. She suffered a stroke and died in the local hospital, but had managed to be in her own home till the end.
(bio by M.Andersen, Nov. 2010)
Father: Adolph Gashel (1873-1964)
Mother: Caroline Elizabeth Beers Gashel (1879-1957). Both are buried in Riverside Cemetery, Rockford, Iowa.
Married: Harold Frank Seaver (1901-1986). Married 28 Nov. 1929, Cedar Falls, Iowa, at the home of her parents. Thanksgiving Day.
Children: Marilyn Ione, Donald Allen, Charlene Ruth.
Gladys was born and grew up in Rock Falls, Iowa, a small town of about 200 people. It was on the Rock Island Railroad, where her father worked as a section foreman. The town had no electricity, no running water, no indoor plumbing, but everyone in town lived that way so there was no ammenities that some had and others did not. There was a good township school and Gladys considered that she got a good education, passing all the state exams with high honors. Her graduating class consisted of just her and one other girl, but the town gave them a graduation ceremony and party, the band played, and that was the way it was in this small town.
After high school, she tried one semester of college at I.S.T.C. in Cedar Falls, decided that teaching was not her career, so worked in the general store in Rock Falls until she could save enough money to enroll in business school at Mason City. It was at Rock Falls she met Harold as he was working next door in the garage.
Gladys did get to Hamilton Business School and started classes there Jan. 1921. She excelled and when an offer came to go to work in the Courthouse at Garner, she accepted the job and did not finish school. At Garner, she worked her way up to Deputy County Auditor, leaving to get married. In those days, if a women married,she was expected not to work.
After marriage and some time on the road while Harold worked on road construction in the midst of the great depression, eventually they came to Cedar Falls, built a house in 1934 and lived in the house for the rest of their lives, adding an addition on at some point to accomodate the family of five.
Gladys loved to read, and always had a book or magazine open. She made many quilts, hand sewing them all, no sewing machine. Members of the family now are in possession of some of the quilts. She was active in the Rebbeca Lodge of the Odd Fellows, had a part time job at the local newspaper, traveled extensively, and had an active life until the last few years of her life. She suffered a stroke and died in the local hospital, but had managed to be in her own home till the end.
(bio by M.Andersen, Nov. 2010)
Mother: Caroline Elizabeth Beers Gashel (1879-1957). Both are buried in Riverside Cemetery, Rockford, Iowa.
Married: Harold Frank Seaver (1901-1986). Married 28 Nov. 1929, Cedar Falls, Iowa, at the home of her parents. Thanksgiving Day.
Children: Marilyn Ione, Donald Allen, Charlene Ruth.
Gladys was born and grew up in Rock Falls, Iowa, a small town of about 200 people. It was on the Rock Island Railroad, where her father worked as a section foreman. The town had no electricity, no running water, no indoor plumbing, but everyone in town lived that way so there was no ammenities that some had and others did not. There was a good township school and Gladys considered that she got a good education, passing all the state exams with high honors. Her graduating class consisted of just her and one other girl, but the town gave them a graduation ceremony and party, the band played, and that was the way it was in this small town.
After high school, she tried one semester of college at I.S.T.C. in Cedar Falls, decided that teaching was not her career, so worked in the general store in Rock Falls until she could save enough money to enroll in business school at Mason City. It was at Rock Falls she met Harold as he was working next door in the garage.
Gladys did get to Hamilton Business School and started classes there Jan. 1921. She excelled and when an offer came to go to work in the Courthouse at Garner, she accepted the job and did not finish school. At Garner, she worked her way up to Deputy County Auditor, leaving to get married. In those days, if a women married,she was expected not to work.
After marriage and some time on the road while Harold worked on road construction in the midst of the great depression, eventually they came to Cedar Falls, built a house in 1934 and lived in the house for the rest of their lives, adding an addition on at some point to accomodate the family of five.
Gladys loved to read, and always had a book or magazine open. She made many quilts, hand sewing them all, no sewing machine. Members of the family now are in possession of some of the quilts. She was active in the Rebbeca Lodge of the Odd Fellows, had a part time job at the local newspaper, traveled extensively, and had an active life until the last few years of her life. She suffered a stroke and died in the local hospital, but had managed to be in her own home till the end.
(bio by M.Andersen, Nov. 2010)
