Birth: November 13, 1912
Death: September 21, 2003
Location: Lot 95, Section 4, New Addition
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Gladys F. Mead, 90, of Wood River died Sunday, Sept. 21, 2003, at the Western Hall County Good Samaritan Center in Wood River.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the First United Methodist Church in Wood River with the Rev. John Ewton officiating. Burial will be in the Wood River Cemetery.
Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Apfel-O’Brien-Straatmann Funeral Home in Wood River.
Mrs. Mead was born Nov. 13, 1912, on the family farm near Bartlett to Arthur and Mary Mae (Blunt) Roberts.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Ronald Mead.
Survivors of the immediate family include five sons and four daughters-in-law, Lloyd Mead of Kearney, Charles and Judy Mead of Wood River, George and Susan Mead of Wood River, Merle and Ellen Mead of Norfolk, and Ronald and Terri Mead of Wellfleet; two daughters and sons-in-law, Ruth and Ron Schuller of Tulsa, Okla., and Beth and Cletis Dobesh of Omaha; and one brother, Glen Roberts of Prosser.
Also surviving are 19 grandchildren and 26 great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Mead started school in Wheeler County and then her family moved to Prosser and she attended school in Prosser and graduated from Kenesaw High School in 1929.
On Dec. 24, 1932, she married Ronald E. Mead in Concordia, Kan. She lived all her married life in the Prosser and Wood River area. She spent most of her life as a mother and homemaker.
She and her husband celebrated their 70th anniversary on Dec. 24, 2002.
She was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Wood River and the United Methodist Women.
She served in many capacities and offices in that organization over the course of many years.
She was preceded in death by her parents; two sisters, Erma Dreblow and Florence Wade; one brother, Clarence Roberts; an infant granddaughter; and an infant great-grandson.
The Grand Island Independent, Sept. 23, 2003