Steuben -Republican                   31 July 1968     P.6  clm 2

        Amos Arlie Gleason      ( 25 Nov 1871- 29 Jul 1968 )

        Amos Arlie (Pop) Gleason, 96, of Rt. 3, Coldwater, Michigan , died
at the
Elmhurst Hospital at 7 p.m. Monday, July 29, after a brief illness. 
        Funeral services will be held at the Beams Funeral Home in Fremont
at 1:30
p.m. Thursday, August 1, with the Rev. Thomas Merritt officiating. 
Interment will follow in the Flint Cemetery. 
        A retired farmer, Mr. Gleason was born in Steuben County on
November 25,
1871. 
        Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Margaret Michael, Rt. 3
Coldwater,
Michigan:  Mrs. Eula Wells, Coldwater, Michigan; and Mrs. Viola Coleman of
Ray;  two sons, Ralph of Quincy, Michigan; and Orville of Fremont;  three
step-daughters, Mrs. Maude Smith and Mrs. Elizabeth Whitmore, both of Union
City, Michigan and Mrs. Stella Knight of Coldwater, Michigan;  two
stepsons, James Parshall of Union City, Michigan; and Albert Parshall of
Coldwater, Michigan;  25 grandchildren, 37 great-grandchildren, three
great-great-grandchildren, a number of step-grandchildren; and three half
sisters, Mrs. Myrtle Jewell of Angola and Mrs. Vida Koontz and Mrs.
Florence Wade, both of Fosteria, Ohio. 


Submitted by J.A. Childers
jeanannchilders@gmail.com