| Gloryl Parchert
Gloryl E. Parchert, 91, of rural Aledo, died Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2007,
at her home.
Services are 10 a.m. Saturday at Reynolds United Methodist Church,
where she was a member. Burial will be in Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Taylor
Ridge. Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at Wheelan-Pressly Funeral
Home, Milan. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to The Mission
Society of her church.
Gloryl was born Sept. 11, 1915, near Illinois City, a daughter of
Louis Michael Schmidt and Maude Sackville Schmidt. She graduated from
Rock Island High School with the class of 1933, attended Western
Illinois University and started teaching in 1934. She married Carl
Andrew Parchert May 2, 1936, in Mineral. He died June 17, 1955.
She taught in rural Rock Island County, in Sherrard, in Tucson,
Ariz., where she earned bachelor's and master's degrees at the
University of Arizona, and then in Rock Island public schools, making
for a total of 40 years. All four of her children became teachers. For
nearly 42 years, she taught Sunday school.
As a writer and photographer, she worked under contract for the
Society of Visual Education, traveling throughout Africa, South America
and Central America, coauthoring 20 sound filmstrips.
Retiring from teaching in 1980, she pursued her writing interest,
getting her first hard-back book published in 1992.
Survivors are daughters, Linda Brown, Viola, Connie Short and her
husband, Allen, Prior Lake, Minn.; son, Arnold Carl Parchert and his
wife, Jan, Somonauk, Ill.; daughter-in-law, Shirley Parchert (son
Jerry's widow), Reynolds; 11 grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; and
six stepgreat-grandchildren; brothers, Bernard Schmidt, Aledo, and Larry
Schmidt, Mt. Zion; sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Beauchamp, Rock Island, Mrs.
Desyl Neel, Wrightwood, Calif., Dr. Ramona Schmidt, Trenton, and Mrs.
Karen Snowden, West Chicago, Ill.; and many nieces and nephews.
Preceding her in death, in addition to her husband, were a son, Jerry;
her parents; and four brothers, Duane, Virgil, Stan and Marlin Schmidt.
(Rock Island Argus, August 9, 2007)
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