El Paso County CO Archives Obituaries.....Gehling, Genevieve Mary Reinart February 16, 2005
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The Colorado Springs Gazette, 18 Feb 2005
Genevieve Mary Reinart Gehling, 85, a resident of Colorado since 1982, passed
away on Wednesday, February 16, 2005, at Cedarwood Health Care Center in
Colorado Springs, Colorado.

     Genevieve was born February 19, 1920 to Peter and Mary Reinart on their
farm four and a half miles southwest of Halbur, Iowa. She attended St.
Augustine's Catholic School in Halbur. On October 28, 1937, she was married to
Lawrence Gehling from the nearby town of Carroll, Iowa. For the first ten years
of their married life the newlyweds rented a series of farms in Carroll,
Humboldt, and Pocahontas counties. Along the way, Genevieve gave birth to four
sons and three daughters.

     In 1946, Genevieve and her husband quit farming and moved their family to
town. They spent most of their remaining years together in Gilmore City, Iowa
where Genevieve worked first as a caregiver for several local families and then
as an aide in a nearby retirement center. During the late 1970's Genevieve also
found time to pursue her interest in family genealogy. She not only wrote down
her own personal memoirs, but also researched the many branches of the Herman
Gehling line of descendants.

     After the death of her husband in 1982, Genevieve moved to Colorado Springs
to be nearer to the families of her children. She soon busied herself in
organizing family outings, learning china and landscape painting, piecing
together quilts, and embroidering pillowcases. Genevieve spent the last four
years of her life at the Cedarwood Health Care Center in Colorado Springs where
she continued to work on her pillowcases and greeting cards until the very end.
Everyone who knew her will always remember her shy, but warm, smile and the
unfailing positive attitude that was her trademark. She leaves behind the
enduring image of a gentle, loving woman who enjoyed nothing so much as the
company of her family and friends.

     Genevieve was preceded in death by her husband, Lawrence Gehling; daughter,
Lois Mulroney; and her two sons: Donald Gehling and Thomas Gehling. She is
survived by two sisters: Mary Buccholz of Jasper, Indiana, and Bertille Thielen
of Manning, Iowa; by two daughters: Connie Bachoroski of Colorado Springs and
Bonnie Clark of Rolfe, Iowa; by two sons: Richard Gehling and Charles Gehling,
both of Colorado Springs; by 15 grandchildren; 40 great-grandchildren; and three
great-great-grandchildren.

     Memorial services will be 2:00 p.m., Saturday, February 19, 2005 at the
Blunt Mortuary Chapel, 2229 W. Colorado Avenue, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80904
with Pastor Donald Leigh officiating. 


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