Doloris Pagles

Doloris Pagles, age 91, of Glidden, Iowa, died unexpectedly at her home on June 10,. 2011. Funeral Service will be at 3:00 P.M. on Tuesday June 14 , 2011 at the Dahn and Woodhouse Funeral Home in Glidden with the Rev. Jessica Rockhold Gaul officiating. Interment will be in the Merle Hay Memorial Cemetery at Glidden. Visitation will be held at the funeral home from 2:00 P.M. until time of the service on Tuesday. Casket bearers will be Charles Freml, John Johnston, Don Pottroff, Bill Gregory, and Bruce Bailey, and Dave McNamara. Organist will be Mrs.Marlys Conner and soloist will be Mary Ross. Born on January 30, 1920 at Westside, Iowa, she was the daughter of Alvin and Grace Vetter Mooney. It was here that she grew to womanhood and attended Westside Consolidated School, now Ar-We-Va, graduating with the class of 1937. For the next year she assisted her mother in the management of the Midwest Café and West Hotel. She was married to Fred W. Pagles on May 6, 1938 at the Methodist Parsonage in Glidden by the Rev. J. B. Johnson. They made their home in Glidden and she remained here after her husband’s death in 1983. In 1943, during World War II, she took over a man’s job at the Glidden Cooperative Creamery. She remained here for the next 21 years, the last five of which she served as manager of the Glidden Coop Egg Association after the creamery was sold. For five years she served on the board of Directors of Quality Egg Marketing. In 1967 she researched, wrote, and compiled the 100 year history of the town of Glidden for the Cenntenial Book and became known as “Glidden’s Historian” and many came to her with questions of Glidden’s past. After working for a year at McNaught’s Store, she began work in 1969 as Billing Clerk at the Glidden REC, a position she held until her retirement in 1982. For nearly 20 years, she served as an official on the Election Board and served on many local, state and national elections. She has been a member of the Glidden United Methodist Church since 1938 and served on the Administrative Council and held several other offices in the Church as well as in the United Methodist Women. She became the Church’s first secretary and served for three years under Rev. J. Elmer Brunk. She was a past president as well as past secretary and historian of Entre Nous Club. She also belonged to several Bridge Clubs, the Eldeen Club and the Birthday Club. Doloris enjoyed crocheting, knitting, yard and garden work, and did much volunteer work. Surviving are her niece Suellyn Marz and two nephews Scott and Shawn Schmitz. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, a sister Bonnie Schmitz, her parents-in-law William and Myrtle Pagles and her sister-in-law Miriam Pagles.