Corsicana Daily Sun - Feb 20, 2005 edition

Gladys Erlene (Anderson) Rouse  

Gladys (Anderson) Rouse

Gladys (Anderson) Rouse, 91, of Fairfield, passed away Saturday, Feb. 19, 2005
in Fairfield.

Visitation will be 6 to 8 p.m. today at Griffin-Roughton Funeral Home in
Fairfield.

Services will be 10 a.m. Monday at First Baptist Church in Streetman with Rev.
Wayne Mahoney and Rev. Fred Ward officiating. Interment will follow at Birdston
Cemetery in Streetman.

Pallbearers will be Larry Ivy, Kevin Ivy, Keith Ivy, Tony Willard, Todd Willard
and Shannon Rouse.

Ms. Rouse was born Nov. 4, 1913 in Streetman to Guy Hampton Anderson and Arra
Richmond Anderson. She was a longtime member of the First Baptist Church in
Streetman where she loved to teach Bible class to children. She sang in the
choir, where she sang her heart out in her love for the Lord. She was a member
of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Jose Antonio Navarro Chapter in
Corsicana, and a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Col. Roger
Q. Mills Chapter 2466 in Corsicana. She loved genealogy and interviewing older
people who remembered things about her family. She was dedicated to her family
and to her church.

She was preceded in death by husband Frank Rouse; her parents; brothers Ernest
and G. R. Anderson; sisters Mattie Stibrich and Marie Ward; and great-grandson
Daniel Steely.

Survivors include son Frankie Rouse of Corsicana; daughters and sons-in-law
Marlene and Raymond Ivy of Fairfield and Marjorie and Dale Willard of North
Richland Hills; brothers Robert Anderson of Malakoff and Max Anderson of Hemet,
Calif.; sister Edna Hodge of Eureka; and six grandchildren and eight
great-grandchildren.

Arrangements by Griffin-Roughton Funeral Home, Fairfield.