COAL CITY, Ill. — Mrs. Cleo J. Gagliardo, 81, of Coal City, Ill., passed away Monday morning, Dec. 10, 2012, at Morris Hospital.

Born Sept. 4, 1931, in Dwight, Ill., Cleo was a daughter of the late Myrtle (Anderson) and Willard Brooks. She was raised in Gardner, Ill., and enjoyed spending time with her grandparents on the Anderson farm in rural Dwight.

Cleo was a 1949 graduate of Gardner-South Wilmington High School and, thereafter, married Marvin Joseph Gagliardo in Saint Patrick Catholic Church in Dwight.