Gladys Drudy
Aug. 11, 1895-Oct. 13, 1957
Niles Daily Star, Monday, October 14, 1957, page 2, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library
Mrs. Gladys Drudy, 62, of Dowagiac, former Niles Resident, died at 11:30a.m. Sunday, in Billings Hospital, Chicago, following an illness of two months.
Mrs. Drudy was born August. 11, 1895 in Muncie, Ind., and for a number of years had lived in Niles before moving to Dowagiac, in the late 1930’s.
Surviving are: her husband, James S. Drudy; a son, Keith Metzger of Oaklawn, Ill; a daughter, Mrs. Carl Ellison, of Niles; two grandchildren whom she raised, Vernon Metzger, of Ishpeming, Mich., and Richard Metzger, stationed with the Air Force at Great Falls, Mont; seven other grandchildren; three brothers, Walter Reese, of Buchanan, Virgil Reese, of Galien, and Herschel Reese, of Fort Wayne, Ind.; three sisters, Mrs. Vera Geminder, Galien, Mrs. Victor Metzger, Buchanan, and Mrs. Ruby Nelson, Michigan City, Ind.; two step-sisters, Mrs. Willie Pence, of Daleville, Ind., and Mrs. Mary Peckinpaugh of Muncie and a step-brother, Carl Reese, of Youngston, O.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Pifer Funeral Home here with the Rev. Chester Wetzel, assistant pastor of the First Presbyterian Church officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.