Gladys was the daughter of Otto and Lillie Ehlers Smallfield.[1]She grew up in Davenport, Iowa, where her father had a barbershop.[2][3] Gladys worked as a bookkeeper for a power company when she was 22.[4]
She married attorney Cyril Nolan in Davenport when she was 28 years old.[5] Gladys and Cyril were living in Davenport in 1940.[6]
She died in Davenport at age 72,[7]and is buried with her husband in Oakdale Memorial Gardens, in Davenport.[8]
Sources
↑ "Iowa, County Births, 1880-1935," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XVJS-2JD : accessed 14 July 2015), Gladys Dorothy Smallfield, 23 Jun 1907; citing Bk 6-1 item 2 p 6-482, Davenport, Scott, Iowa, United States; county district courts, Iowa; FHL microfilm 2,070,905.
↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MG98-WND : accessed 22 June 2022), Gladys Smallfield in household of Otto Smallfield, Davenport Ward 2, Scott, Iowa, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 132, sheet 19B, family 468, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 422; FHL microfilm 1,374,435.
↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XMVB-DRF : accessed 22 June 2022), Gladys Smallfield in household of Otto Smallfield, Davenport, Scott, Iowa, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 26, sheet 12B, line 65, family 321, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 681; FHL microfilm 2,340,416.
↑ "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/QJD3-9QG4 : accessed 28 May 2014), Cyril U Nolan and Gladys D Smallfield, 28 Dec 1935; citing Scott, Iowa, United States; FHL microfilm .
↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KMBG-S91 : accessed 14 July 2015), Gladys D Nolan in household of Cyril U Nolan, Ward 2, Davenport, Davenport City Township, Scott, Iowa, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 82-31, sheet 10A, family 201, NARA digital publication T627 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012), roll 1202.
↑ "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JT9G-8WT : accessed 14 July 2015), Gladys Nolan, Aug 1979; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
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