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Hope Gildroy

August 17, 1918 — November 21, 2014

Hope Gildroy was the third child of Susanna Linhart Hope Gildroy and Harry Morgan Gildroy. She was born on August 17, 1918 in Albia, Iowa. She died on November 21, 2014 at the Highland Oaks in Elgin, Illinois. She was 96. Following graduation from Albia High School in 1936, Hope worked at the Monroe County Court House in the Auditor's office, then for the Hollingshead Abstract Company. Her next employer was the Maloney Manufacturing Company and its successor the Chamberlain Door Manufacturing Company. She handled the proration and reciprocity taxes and licenses for their trucks traveling in other states. She moved to Lincoln, Nebraska in 1965 where she administered proration of taxes on interstate trucks traveling into the State of Nebraska. After the state realigned their departments' duties, she remained with the Nebraska Department of Revenue to work with property taxes on railroad lines in 93 counties of the state. She retired in 1983. Hope later moved to Chariton to provide care for her sister, Margaret Johnson. She had never driven. She bought a car and obtained a driver's license several years after retirement. She was a faithful member of the First United Methodist Church in Chariton where she was active in several groups. She was especially fond of working with the library committee. Hope was an accomplished artist. She was proficient with several methods but grew to enjoy and prefer watercolors. One of her greatest joys was being a member of the Dipsy Dabblers Art Workshop. Hope loved her Chariton home. She enjoyed raising flowers which thrived under her care whether they were in her home or yard. She stayed in her home until it became necessary for her to move to the Legacy Lodge. When she had to leave there she then was moved to Highland Oaks in Elgin, Illinois in January of 2014. She was preceded in death by her parents, her brother James Gildroy in 1970 and his wife DeVee in 2001, her sister Margaret Johnson in 1993, her brother-in-law, Renus W. Johnson in 1979, and her nephew James R. Johnson in 2000. She is survived by her nephew Robert (Bob) Johnson and his wife Sue Piper Johnson of Elgin, Illinois, and their children Anne Veague and her husband Rick, Eric Johnson and his wife Ann, and Amy Johnson and her husband Vernon Hartman. Also by Carol (Jim) Johnson of Omaha, Nebraska and their children Gillian White and her husband Michael, and Peder Johnson and his wife Emily. Also a niece Shirley Gildroy as well as ten great- nieces and nephews.
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