Dorothy Evelyn "Evie" Gloistein

A service will be 1 p.m. Monday in Susanville at the Monticola Club on South Lassen Street for Gardnerville resident Dorothy Evelyn "Evie" Gloistein, 91, who died March 21, 2010.

Born June 9, 1918, in Anaheim, Calif., to John Brunworth and Pauline Kroeger, she was a member of a pioneer California family.

Her grandfather, Henry Kroeger, was the founding father of Anaheim, which was incorporated in 1858, and what is now Orange County, Calif. In 1868 he became the second mayor of Anaheim.

Mrs. Gloistein graduated from Anaheim Union High School, attended Fullerton Junior College, and began her working years in 1938 at Anaheim Union High School. She was the star player in the historical pageant, "Olden Days in Anaheim," at the age of 22.

In 1938 she and three of her friends skipped class in order to get a view of the Empress of Britain which was docked in the harbor. The girls convinced the ship's policeman that another policeman had given them permission to board without a pass. They were able to get their hands on some stationary each used to write a letter they mailed to themselves from the ship.

This ship was taken into service during World War II, and was sunk by the Germans in 1940.

Mrs. Gloistein was a member of the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve SPARS, from March 12, 1944, to Sept. 30, 1945. She was also a member of the USO. She met her husband, Lawrence Gloistein, on a vacation in Laguna Beach, Calif., and they married in 1947. She went back to work in 1953 at Kwikset Locks and retired in 1973.

Mrs. Gloistein moved to Susanville, Calif., after her husband died in 1973.

She was also an active member of the Susanville Art League, and managed the gallery for several years.

She is survived by sons Lawrence George Gloistein Jr. of Gardnerville, and John Henry Gloistein, of Janesville, Calif.; grandson Jared Daniel Gloistein of Gardnerville; and 100-year-old cousin Marguerite Kroeger Spitzer of Fullerton, Calif. Any remembrances should be sent to the General Federation of Women's Clubs, Monticola, Shasta Division, Susanville, Calif.