Gladys Weak Mckay

Gladys Faye McKay, one of six children of Mabel Mae (Smith) and Riley Alfred Wheeler, was born on December 28, 1915 in Mills County, Iowa. She grew up on the family farm and attended country schools in White Cloud and Silver Creek Townships and Malvern High School.
Gladys and Oliver Jasper Weak were married on March 22, 1934 in Montgomery County, Iowa. They made their first home south of Malvern and farmed for Pete Glynn and his father Walt. They had three children, Betty Maxine, Patricia Ann and Larry James. Gladys enjoyed her role as a homemaker and mother. She was prim and proper in her appearance and instilled those fine qualities in her children. Gladys was a wonderful cook, enjoyed gardening and especially working with flowers. She was a member of the Hastings Methodist Church in Hastings, Iowa. She worked at the Union Carbide Plant in Red Oak, Iowa until her retirement. Gladys and Oliver had been married for 26 years when they divorced.
Gladys and Thomas F. McKay were united in marriage in July of 1960. They made their home in Sun City, Arizona and had been married 32 years at the time of Thomas's death in 1992. Gladys then moved to Lakewood, Colorado to be near her daughter Patricia. In 1997, she returned to Iowa and lived in Shenandoah. Due to failing health, Gladys moved to the Tabor Manor Care Center in Tabor, Iowa in 2001. She passed away on August 30, 2007, at the Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs, Iowa at the age of 91 years, 8 months and 2 days.
Gladys was preceded in death by her parents; husband Thomas McKay; first husband Oliver Weak; son-in-law Carl Linke; infant granddaughter Merri Mayberry; sister Myrtle Lee and husband Melvin; brothers George Wheeler, Donald Wheeler and Gerald Wheeler.
Betty is survived by daughter Betty M. Head and husband Dan of Imogene, Iowa and of Holiday Island, Arkansas, daughter Patricia Linke of Lakewood, Colorado, and son Larry Weak and wife Sharon of Galena, Kansas; brother Riley Wheeler, Jr. and wife Mandy of Harrisonville, Missouri; ten grandchildren; eleven great grandchildren; four great great-grandchildren; nieces and nephews; other relatives and friends.

Memorials suggested to
Tabor, Iowa Fire Department and Rescue Unit.