Gayle E. Perkins

Gayle Emelia Perkins, one of seven children of Hilma Emelia (Falk) and Frank Leonard Theodore Anderson, was born on April 22, 1920 near Bethesda in Page County, Iowa. Gayle and George W. Perkins of Hastings, Iowa were married at Stanton, Iowa on January 26, 1946. They spent their married life in the southwest Iowa towns of Hastings, Malvern, and Tabor and in the southeast Nebraska towns of Salem and Falls City. They were blessed with a son, Dennis and four daughters, Barbara, Marcia, Marlene, and Nancy. Gayle worked in Malvern at the egg processing plant and later as a nursing aid at the Tabor Manor Nursing Home. She then accepted a position at the Glenwood State Hospital School. George died in 1977 and Gayle later moved to Glenwood where she continued to work until retiring in 1982. After that time, she made her home with her daughters. In 2002, she moved to Nashville, Tennessee with her daughter Marcia, where she died at her home on March 23, 2004. She had attained the age of 83 years, 11 months, and 1 day.
In addition to her husband George, Gayle was preceded in death by her parents; brothers Ivan Anderson, Dale Anderson, and Wayne Anderson and sister Luella Chereck.
Gayle is survived by one son, Dennis Perkins and his wife Sue of Longmont, Colorado; four daughters, Barbara Fleming and her husband Ronnie of Kingston Springs, Tennessee, Marcia Stockman of Nashville, Tennessee, Marlene Vogel and her husband George of Omaha, Nebraska, and Nancy Schneider and her husband Dennis of Henderson, Kentucky; 13 grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren; sisters Irene Harris of Red Oak, Iowa and Amy Burrington of Tabor, Iowa; nieces and nephews; other relatives and friends.