Cleo Marian Gullickson, age 87, of Northwood, Iowa, died Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2004, at the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit, Mason City, Iowa.

Funeral service will be held 11 a.m.Saturday, Dec. 4, at the First Lutheran Church, Northwood, with the Rev. Wayne Hagen officiating. Burial will be at the Sunset Rest Cemetery, Northwood. Visitation will be today from 5 to 7 p.m. at Schroeder & Sites Funeral Home, Northwood.

Cleo M. Juhl was born Aug. 22, 1917, near Waltham, Minn., to Nicholas Paulson Juhl and Bertha Mae (Hadsell) Juhl. She was baptized and confirmed at First Lutheran Church, Northwood, as a young adult. Until the last months of eighth grade she attended rural schools in the Burchinal, Rockwell and Mason City areas. She completed grade school in six years and graduated from Northwood High School at age 16.

Cleo married C. Donald Gullickson at the Lutheran Parsonage in Mason City on Feb. 22, 1936. She and Donald lived and farmed near Northwood until Donald’s death in 1970. She moved to Northwood in 1971, living in her home there until July 1989 when she moved to Maple Court Apartments where she lived until her death. She was a devoted helpmate to her husband on the farm, a homemaker and a loving mother, grandmother and great grandmother throughout her life.

Cleo is survived by two daughters: Donna (Richard) Tuttle of Albert Lea, and Jan (Roger) Dahlby of Northwood; two sisters: Edna Hanson of Stewartville, and Hazel Troe of Hampton, Iowa; five grandchildren: Dawn (Mark) Tietz of Greenville, S.C., Randy Tuttle of Dallas, Texas, Rochelle (John) Reding of Hermitage, Tenn., Darin (Teri) Dahlby of

Northwood and Anne Olson of Mason City, Iowa; and 12 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, C. Donald; a daughter, Anne Cooper, in 1962; her parents; three sisters: Esther, as a young child, Phyllis Ballandby and Helen Johnson; a step brother, Delbert Juhl; and step sister, Charlotte Luick.