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Virgil and Beatrice had two children, one son and one daughter. Virgil's obituary reads, "Food Service Executive Virgil Gladieux Dies. LaSalle, Mich. - Virgil A. Gladieux, a Toledo businessman who was reared in Allen County, died Feb. 27 at his lake home in LaSalle. He was 88. Mr. Gladieux was born on a family farm in Besancon, east of New Haven, and moved to Toledo at age 17 to begin a vending-machine business. During the Depression the company grew to provide in-plant food services for most of the major companies in Toledo. By the 1950s it became the country's largest turnpike restaurant operator and largest movie-theater concessionaire. In 1968 Mr. Gladieux received the Gold Plate Award as the country's outstanding restauranteur. After serving as president of Ogden Foods, with which his company had merged, he left in 1970 to start a new company, Gladieux Corp. That company was sold to Marriott Corp. in 1985. He then built another food-service company, V/Gladieux Enterprises, Inc. Mr. Gladieux served as past president for three terms of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, and was a life trustee of the Boys & Girls Club of Toledo. He was a four-term past president of St. Vincent Medical Center, and was a past president of the Toledo Zoological Society, the Northwestern Ohio Restaurant Association and the Toledo Area Chamber of Commerce. He received more than a dozen awards from community groups for his volunteerism. In the late 1940s, Mr. Gladieux with friends and investors built the Toledo Sports Arena. He bought a National Basketball Association franchise known as the Jeeps, and brought International Hockey League teams known as the Mercuries, the Blades, the Hornets and the Goaldiggers to Toledo. Surviving Mr. Gladieux are his wife, Beatrice (Mayers); a sister, Alice Parnin of Fort Wayne; a daughter, Therese Gladieux Geiger of Toledo; a son, Timothy M. (Laurine) of Toledo; seven grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. Services were Monday at James Coyle & Son Funeral Home, Toledo, and at Gesu Catholic Church, Toledo. Interment was in Calvery Cemetery, Toledo. Memorials to scholarship funds at St. Francis de Sales High School, Toledo, or at the University of Toledo, or to northwest Ohio charities that Mr. Gladieux served, including the Boys & Girls Club, Little Sisters of the Poor, the American Red Cross, the Toledo-Lucas County Library, Goodwill Industries and Junior Achievement of Northwest Ohio." [Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, Saturday 8 March 1997, pg. 7A] Beatrice's obituary reads, "BEATRICE M. GLADIEUX, 93, of Toledo, died Sunday at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center. Born in Fort Wayne, she and her husband, Virgil Andrew, started the Buddies Box Lunch. She had worked as a bookkeeper for the company. She was a founding member of The Little Sisters of the Poor Auxiliary. She was preceded in death by her husband. Surviving are a daughter, Therese Gladieux Geiger; a son, Timothy M. Gladieux; seven grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. Services at 10:15 a.m. EDT (9:15 a.m. Fort Wayne time) Wednesday at J. Jeffrey Fretil Funeral Home, Toledo, followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 11 a.m. EDT at Gesu Parish, Toledo. Calling from 3 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral ome, with a rosary service at 7:30 p.m. Burial in Calvary Cemetery. Memorials to The Little Sisters of the Poor, The Mr. and Mrs. Virgil A. Gladieux Scholarship at St. Ursula Academy, The Mr. and Mrs. Virgil A. Gladieux Scholarship at St. Francis De Sales High School, Central Catholic High School or Gesu Parish." [Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, Monday 9 Oct 2000, pg. 4A] They are both buried in Calvary Cemetery in Toledo, Ohio. References
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