Service MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1999, 1:00 PM OHDE FUNERAL HOME MANNING, IOWA
Officiating REVEREND MARSHALL BROWN FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Music "IN THE GARDEN"
HELEN OHDE, VOCALIST & ORGANIST
Interment ATLANTIC CEMETERY, ATLANTIC, IOWA
Casketbearers FAMILY & FRIENDS

MARY'S FAMILY APPRECIATES THE MANY EXPRESSIONS OF SYMPATHY AND CONCERN SHOWN TO THEM OVER THE YEARS.
DRIVERS IN A FUNERAL PROCESSION MUST TURN ON VEHICLE HEADLIGHTS, DRIVE IN A CLOSE FORMATION, AND BE ALERT.

Mary GauIke Shane
Funeral services for Mary (Gaulke) Shane were held Monday, September 27, 1999, at 1:00 p.m. at Ohde Funeral Home in Manning, Iowa. Reverend Marshall Brown of the First Presbyterian Church officiated with Helen Ohde as vocalist and organist. Interment was held at Atlantic Cemetery in Atlantic, Iowa, with family and friends as casket bearers.

Mary Ellen, daughter of Robert and Celeste (Engelman) Davis, was born March 15, 1901, near Lewiston, Montana. When Mary was five years old she moved with her family to Walnut, Iowa, where she attended schools.

On December 6, 1919, Mary was united in marriage with George Otto Gaulke at Atlantic, Iowa. They made their home in Atlantic and three girls were born to this union. George died in 1955. Several years later, she moved to Watervliet, Michigan, to be near her daughter, Helen Sprague, and to work in Whitey Sprague's grocery store.

While in Watervliet, she met and married Tracy Shane, in April of 1965. They lived on an acreage south of town. Tracy died in December of 1967. Mary continued to live there until 1977, when she moved to Manning, Iowa, to be near her daughter, Lorraine Kruse. Mary was a member of the First Presbyterian Church.

Due to failing health, Mary became a resident of Manning Plaza Nursing Home, Manning, Iowa, on January 13, 1992. She died there on Friday, September 24, 1999, at the age of 98 years, 6 months, and 9 days.

She is preceded in death by her parents; two husbands; two daughters, Helen Sprague and Lorraine Knop-Kruse; one grandson Alan Knop; two brothers: Robert Davis and John Davis; and three sisters: Edna Lewis, Vera Moreland; and Margaret Davis.

Mary is survived by her daughter Louise Fonua of Renton, Washington; twelve grandchildren; twenty great-grandchildren; five great-great-grandchildren; a son-in-law, Earl "Whitey" Sprague of San Benito, Texas; three sisters: Hazel Young; Dorothy Bointnott; and Fayrene Ellenwood, all of Des Moines; one brother, George Davis, of Washington; and other relatives and friends.