Gladys J. Odegaard Gladys J. Odegaard, age 90, resident of Cooperstown, ND passed away Wednesday, February 24, 2021 at the Griggs County Care Center in Cooperstown. Gladys June Lorch was born July 17, 1930. She was the youngest of five children born to Albert and Henrietta (Stern) Lorch at their rural Hillsboro, ND farm home. Gladys grew up on the family farm, attended country school #4 for eight years and attended Hillsboro High School, graduating with the class of 1948. She graduated from Interstate Business College in Fargo and became employed with the City of Fargo Police Department, first as a clerk typist with the traffic bureau and later was appointed secretary to the Chief of Police, a position she held for 5 years, leaving the Department in September of 1954.