Gloria Margaret O’Connell
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Serving Broadwater County Since April 24, 1897
Gloria Margaret O’Connell passed away peacefully on January 16, 2008, surrounded by her loving family at the Rocky Mountain Care Center in Helena after a short illness.
Gloria was born in Helena on September 10, 1924 to J. Frank and Margaret (Morris) O’Connell. She attended Helena schools and Montana State College in Bozeman where she was a member of AOPi sorority. She graduated in June of 1947 with a degree in Hotel and Restaurant Management. Her first job was in Detroit where she was in charge of food service for the Greenfield Mills Restaurant. She oversaw a staff of 54 cooks and 50 other food service employees, and served up to 9000 meals a day. She then became the Manager at the upscale Mills 19 Café in Columbus, Ohio. In the early 1950’s she spent two and a half months in Europe with her father. They visited relatives in Ireland, and spent time looking for sheepherders while in France and Spain to work on the family’s sheep ranch.
After returning to the states, she became the head dietician at the University of Hawaii. In 1953 she and fellow dietician Marjorie Clark spent a year sailing around the world in their skirts and high heels, using freighters, tramp steamers, barges, sampans, camels, rickshaws, cable cars and dugouts. Favorite ports of call were Yokohama, Manila, and Hong Kong, where they stayed at the Peninsula Hotel which at that time provided water for two hours a day. They were also the first girls to ever stay at the Hong Kong YMCA. They continued on to Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Ceylon and India. They went through the Suez Canal with visits to Aden, Cairo and Port Said. Europe was their next stop and they then embarked on the “Virgin De Africa”, traveling through the Moroccan cities of Tangier, Casablanca (their home away from home), and Marrakech, Timbuktu, Mali, Port Gentil, Gabon (The Belgian Congo) and Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
All roads eventually led back to Montana and family, and she settled in Helena after working at MSC in Bozeman. She saw the family’s Round Grove Ranch near Townsend transform itself from horses to tractors and from shovels to pivots. She was instrumental in securing the ranch’s future as an endeavor which continues to produce food, fiber, wood products and recreational opportunities for a growing population.
Gloria was born in Helena on September 10, 1924 to J. Frank and Margaret (Morris) O’Connell. She attended Helena schools and Montana State College in Bozeman where she was a member of AOPi sorority. She graduated in June of 1947 with a degree in Hotel and Restaurant Management. Her first job was in Detroit where she was in charge of food service for the Greenfield Mills Restaurant. She oversaw a staff of 54 cooks and 50 other food service employees, and served up to 9000 meals a day. She then became the Manager at the upscale Mills 19 Café in Columbus, Ohio. In the early 1950’s she spent two and a half months in Europe with her father. They visited relatives in Ireland, and spent time looking for sheepherders while in France and Spain to work on the family’s sheep ranch.
After returning to the states, she became the head dietician at the University of Hawaii. In 1953 she and fellow dietician Marjorie Clark spent a year sailing around the world in their skirts and high heels, using freighters, tramp steamers, barges, sampans, camels, rickshaws, cable cars and dugouts. Favorite ports of call were Yokohama, Manila, and Hong Kong, where they stayed at the Peninsula Hotel which at that time provided water for two hours a day. They were also the first girls to ever stay at the Hong Kong YMCA. They continued on to Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Ceylon and India. They went through the Suez Canal with visits to Aden, Cairo and Port Said. Europe was their next stop and they then embarked on the “Virgin De Africa”, traveling through the Moroccan cities of Tangier, Casablanca (their home away from home), and Marrakech, Timbuktu, Mali, Port Gentil, Gabon (The Belgian Congo) and Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
All roads eventually led back to Montana and family, and she settled in Helena after working at MSC in Bozeman. She saw the family’s Round Grove Ranch near Townsend transform itself from horses to tractors and from shovels to pivots. She was instrumental in securing the ranch’s future as an endeavor which continues to produce food, fiber, wood products and recreational opportunities for a growing population.
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She was preceded in death by her parents; her sister Frances Abby O’Connell Ingalls in 2002; and brother-in-law George Ingalls in 1995. She is survived by her nephews John Ingalls and Kelly (Kay) Ingalls and their children Ellie and Louis all of Townsend; niece Pat Ingalls of Butte, and childhood friend Mary Murray of Helena. Cremation has taken place and a memorial service celebrating Gloria’s life will be held on Saturday, January 26, 2008 at 1 p.m. at the Retz Funeral Home Chapel. Memorials in Gloria’s name may be sent to St. Peter’s Hospital Foundation, 2475 Broadway, Helena, MT 59601; the Broadwater County Museum, 133 N. Walnut, Townsend MT 59644; or the charity of the donor’s choice
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