You are my rock and a special angel . In my heart forever
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She was born on April 3, 1935 in Cabool, MO, a daughter of Henry and Helen (Noirfalise) Elliott. She married Carl A. Anderson, Jr. on September 30, 1955 in Peoria. He preceded her in death on August 5, 1992 in Peoria. She was also preceded in death by her parents and son, Stephen R. Anderson.
Gladys is survived by her daughter, Lisa K. (Roger) Van Order of Petersburg, NJ; four grandchildren; nine great grandchildren; three brothers; and three sisters.
She retired in 1990, after seventeen years of service, as a Policy Technician with Illinois Mutual Insurance. She was a member of Mt. Hawley Community Church.
Memorial services will be at 1 p.m. on Monday, December 14, 2015, at Swan Lake Memory Gardens Mausoleum Chapel, with Pastor John Klotz officiating.
Memorial contributions may be made in Gladys’ name to the American Cancer Society’s Road to Recovery Program in Peoria.
Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to Clary Funeral Home, 3004 West Lake Avenue, in Peoria.
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| Lisa Van Order | Mrs | December 13, 2015 |
You are my rock and a special angel . In my heart forever
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| Doris | Ms | December 22, 2015 |
My deepest condolences to the family for your loss, may the promises found in God's Word help ease your sadness. Sickness and death will one day soon be removed forever - Revelation 21:3, 4; Isaiah 33:24; Isaiah 42:8
| Hendrick Polanco | My deepest condolences | December 17, 2015 |
My deepest condolences. May these few words from the Holy Scriptures bring you comfort in your time of grief...
John 11:32-45
32 And so Mary, when she arrived where Jesus was and caught sight of him, fell at his feet, saying to him: “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” 33 Jesus, therefore, when he saw her weeping and the Jews that came with her weeping, groaned in the spirit and became troubled; 34 and he said: “Where have YOU laid him?” They said to him: “Lord, come and see.” 35 Jesus gave way to tears. 36 Therefore the Jews began to say: “See, what affection he used to have for him!” 37 But some of them said: “Was not this [man] that opened the eyes of the blind man able to prevent this one from dying?”
38 Hence Jesus, after groaning again within himself, came to the memorial tomb. It was, in fact, a cave, and a stone was lying against it.39 Jesus said: “TAKE the stone away.” Martha, the sister of the deceased, said to him: “Lord, by now he must smell, for it is four days.”40 Jesus said to her: “Did I not tell you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?” 41 Therefore they took the stone away. Now Jesus raised his eyes heavenward and said: “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. 42 True, I knew that you always hear me; but on account of the crowd standing around I spoke, in order that they might believe that you sent me forth.” 43 And when he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice: “Laz´a·rus, come on out!” 44The [man] that had been dead came out with his feet and hands bound with wrappings, and his countenance was bound about with a cloth. Jesus said to them: “Loose him and let him go.”
45 Therefore many of the Jews that had come to Mary and that beheld what he did put faith in him;
Please go to the following link for more information regarding the Hope expressed in this passage
http://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/dead-live-again-tract/dead-live-again
| Carol Peterson | Ms. | December 17, 2015 |
Gladys was like a mother to me . She was the nicest lady i have known and I am going to miss her. My grandchildren called her Gramma Gladys. May she RIP. We truly loved her. Carol Peterson & Jason, Danielle, Johanna, Riley Peterson.
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