Gladys I. Dahl

Funeral services will be on Tuesday, March 3, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. at Resurrection Lutheran Church in St. Joseph for Gladys I. Dahl, age 88 of St. Joseph, who passed away on Saturday, February 28, 2009 at her home at Arlington Place. Reverend Dwaine Bruns will officiate. Burial will be at Evergreen Cemetery in Long Prairie.

Family and friends may call from 4:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. on Monday at the Daniel Funeral Home in St. Joseph and after 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday at the church.

Gladys was born on July 15, 1920 in Jasper, Minnesota to William and Selma (Kasemodel) Petersen. She attended rural school and graduated from Jasper High School in 1937. Gladys attended Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and then taught school in South Dakota. In 1946 she married Leonard Dahl in Pipestone. Two sons, Dennis and Richard, were born in Pipestone. In 1957 the family moved to the Clarissa area. Gladys went back to teaching and earned her degree in education at St. Cloud State University in 1964. She retired after teaching in Clarissa for 24 years. She and her husband moved to Long Prairie. They enjoyed traveling during these years. After Leonard died in October of 1993, Gladys moved to Little Falls. She was a member of First Lutheran Church in Little Falls, the Ruth Circle, the Quilters, and she was a volunteer at the Lutheran Care Center.

Gladys is survived by her sons, Dennis (Vicki) of St. Joseph, Richard of Boston, Massachusetts; three grandchildren, Jon (Sarah) Dahl of Rosemount, Jennifer Dahl Propsom (Mike) of Plymouth and Christa Dahl of Minneapolis; three great grandchildren, Lucas and Megan Dahl of Rosemount and Ellie Propsom of Plymouth; her sister, Shirley Rice of Sauk Centre; and her brother, James (Susan) Petersen of Las Cruces, New Mexico; and many nieces and nephews.

Gladys was preceded in death by her husband, Leonard; sisters Helen Gehrels, Gertrude Kiebach and Alice Womak; brother, Harvey Petersen; and daughter-in-law, JoAnn Dahl.