The Tampico Tornato
July 10 1936

MRS. GEORGIA GLASSBURN DIED TUESDAY NIGHT AT HOME HOSPITAL

Mrs. Georgia LaDue Glassburn who had been critically ill at the Home hospital in Sterling since Thursday evening, passed away at 11:45 Tuesday night. She had been in poor health for the past year. Although her condition was known to be serious from the first, word of her passing came as a shock to her many friends here who had hoped and prayed for her recovery.

The daughter of Marion and Harriet LaDue, she was born on July 25, 1881 in Prophetstown township near Yorktown. On October 1,1905 she was married to Ralph L. Glassburn of Tampico. With the exception of two years spent in Milledgeville and short stays in Paw Paw and Earlville they have spent their entire married life in this vicinity.

She has been very active in the Church of Christ where she will be greatly missed. She had charge of the Junior church at the time of her death, was chairman of the Tampico Home Bureau Unit, was secretary of the P.T.A. and had always taken an interest in all church and community affairs.

She is survived by her husband, three daughters, Vida and Marian of Sterling and Harriette at home; her mother, Mrs. Harriet LaDue of Prophetstown; two brothers, Lewis F. LaDue of Prophetstown and Dr. Stanley B. LaDue of Chillicothe. A son, Ronald LaDue, preceded her in death in January 1912 (sic 1921) and her father, F. M. LaDue, passed away in May 1935.