Irene Gille

I remember Irene, Gladys, and Joe coming to the Roost when I worked there years ago. It was always a pleasure visiting with them. Such nice people, it's so sad they're gone.

Irene was such a great lady. She taught school at Center Hill Country School. She was the sweetest lady and such a nice teacher. She loved going to Bingo on Friday Nights in Warren. My sister and I started going and low and behold she came to us and had remembered our names! I couldn’t believe it! Irene dear you were one of a kind and will truly be missed by many many friends and family. R.I.P Lovely

Irene was a wonderful person and I will truly miss her!

Such a sweet, spry, intelligent, and glamerous lady. When I think of her it brings to mind the Gratiot breakfast/dinner clutch with my parents (Don and Clare), her sparkly rings, and my son having the same July 7th birthday on which she remembered him many times. Good memories for many people. May she rest in peace.

Irene taught at Vickers School, a rural one-room school in the Belmont School District, starting when I was in 3rd grade in the fall of 1963. I was the only one in my grade through the 7th grade, and went to the grade school in town for 8th grade. She taught a few more years at Vickers, until the rural schools were closed and all went into town. I believe that's when she began to teach in Shullsburg. She was good at challenging us, and had something to teach each pupil regardless of grade or standing. I still wonder how she could keep us all straight in our various subjects. I visited her in the Manor on her birthday last year, and she was still sharp and vivacious--still teaching us how to enjoy life. God's blessing on her and her family.