From Feb 21, 2023, page A6 - The Muscatine Journal at Newspapers.com:2816

Gladys Mittman

May 26, 1935 — February 19, 2023

MUSCATINE — Gladys Beulah Mittman, 87, of Muscatine, Iowa, passed away at her home on Sunday, February 19, 2023.

A Celebration of Life Service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, February 24, 2023, at the Sweetland United Methodist Church. Pastor Mary Timmermann will officiate the service. Her grandchildren will be pallbearers. A private burial will take place in Greenwood Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4:30 p.m. until 7 p.m. on Thursday, February 23, 2023, at Ralph J. Wittich-Riley-Freers Funeral Home.

Memorials may be made to Sweetland United Methodist Church, Friends of the Pine Creek Grist Mill, or Friends of the Old Stone Church.

Gladys was born on May 26, 1935, in rural Muscatine County, Iowa, the daughter of Edgar and Beulah (French) Kemper. She had many fond memories of growing up on a farm in a large family. She was the eighth child of nine.

Gladys attended a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade in Montpelier Township, Muscatine County. She graduated from Muscatine High School in 1954 and Iowa State Teachers College, now the University of Northern Iowa, in 1956. For two years, she taught sixth grade in Williamsburg, Iowa.

Gladys married Wayne Leroy Mittman on August 17, 1958, at Sweetland United Methodist Church in Muscatine County. They had four children. She and Wayne were married for 52 years and lived in Muscatine their entire married life; Wayne passed away in 2010.

Gladys was a lifelong member of Sweetland United Methodist Church and a longtime member of Friends of the Pine Creek Grist Mill and Friends of the Old Stone Church. She enjoyed genealogy, local history, volunteering, and traveling. For many years, she helped with area schools’ field trips to the Pine Creek Grist Mill and the Nye Cemetery; she taught many students and parents how to gravewitch.

Her four children survive Gladys, Robert (Barb) Mittman of Nevada, Iowa, Linda (Wes) Demmon of DeWitt, Iowa, John (Lori) Mittman of York, Nebraska, Barbara (John) Beals of Nevada, Iowa; 9 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

She is also survived by her sister, Catherine “Kitty” Root, of Muscatine, Iowa; her sister-in-law, Carol Kemper, of Elmwood, Illinois; and her sister-in-law, Sharon Klein, of Spirit Lake, Iowa.

Gladys was preceded in death by her parents, husband, three brothers: Edward, Paul, and Mark Kemper, and four sisters: Ruth Denison, Mary Hauck, Martha Hetzler, and Doris Kruse.