Glorialee Wilmes
July 10, 1922 to March 3, 2020
Glorialee Anderson Paulson Wilmes was born on July 10, 1922 in Portland Oregon to Corrine and Kenneth “Turner” Anderson. She grew up with her little brother Buddy (Kenneth Turner Junior) in the Rose City, Hollywood and Hawthorne neighborhoods and graduated from Washington High School in 1940. A large part of Gloria’s childhood was spent living with her grandparents who she and Buddy adored. She was always very proud of her grandfather Joe Hutchinson’s career with the City of Portland and her grandmother Lelah’s beautiful hand sewing and astute business mind. One of Gloria’s special memories was of Grandpa Joe taking her as a four year old to visit his mother on Sunday mornings. He would say, “Glorialee, let’s take the radio down to your great-grandmother’s house so she can listen to the church sermon.” While her Great-Grandma Susan listened to the preacher, Grandpa Joe would say, “Glorialee, let’s take a walk down the street to see the progress on “our bridge”.” Little Gloria always thought that the Burnside Bridge being reconstructed in 1926 belonged to them. In 1934 Gloria’s parents divorced and her mother Corrine married Leo Harrison. Gloria loved her step-father Leo and gained a flamboyant and lovable step-sister, Cleo.
After high school, Gloria attended Oregon State University for a year on a scholarship. She lived in a boarding house and worked as a hostess at a restaurant, but money was tight and she had to abandon her dream of college. She then worked for two years in the payroll office at Longview Fiber in Longview Washington, taking the bus back to Portland on the weekends to visit her family. In 1943 she married Richard Velmer Paulson. While Dick was away during the war and then while he attended college afterward, they started their family. Their first child Charlotte died at the age of 4 from leukemia. But son Lee had already come along in 1947 and then JoEllen was born in 1950. Dick was called back into service for the Korean War and was stationed in Spokane where son Jeff was born in 1952. In 1962 they were transferred by Dick’s employer Kaiser Aluminum to Deerfield Illinois. Through the years of raising their family, Gloria ran an in-home daycare business to augment the family income. Later when her kids were in college she worked as the director of a nursing home. When Dick was nearing retirement, they bought a motel in Kenosha Wisconsin which Gloria managed. When Dick retired they moved back home to Portland.
Gloria always loved her home town of Portland and taught her children to consider it home even though they had only spent short vacations here throughout their childhoods. Naturally, all three kids came to Portland to live once they were married and they all raised their own families here. After enjoying some years of travel and being near grandkids in retirement, Dick passed away in 1996 and Dick’s sister Helen came to live with Gloria for many years. In 1999 sons Lee and Jeff introduced Gloria to a man who worked in Jeff’s airplane hangar. They proposed that she look after him following a surgery he was scheduled to have. That is how Woody Wilmes came into her life and became her second husband. With Woody she bought a second home in Columbus New Mexico and she loved flying in Woody’s small airplane between Portland and Columbus. When Woody became ill with cancer she took care of him until his death.
Gloria loved her children and grand-children, and she doted on her dogs. She was so outgoing and made friends with just about everyone who crossed her path. She was known for having strong opinions, loving the color pink, having an adventurous spirit and for looking after family and friends in need. She read voraciously, was proud of her pioneering family history and enjoyed researching her genealogy with her niece Kevan.
Gloria is survived by her: children Lee Paulson (Melony), JoEllen Newton and Jeff Paulson (Vicki) and former daughters-in-law Karen Angeline and Audrey Ruth; grand-children: Tara Lindis-Corbell (Kent) and Phaedra E Paulson (Joe Tannis); Patrick Newton (Donnie Powell), Brian Newton (Natalie) and Chris Newton; Adam Paulson (Alli), Ben Paulson, Katrina Paulson and Meng Paulson; Briana Linden (Troy) and Jeffrey Nelson(Csilla Toth); Rovina Lerio; and eleven great-grandchildren.
Gloria is preceded in death by: daughter Charlotte, husband Dick Paulson, husband Woody
Wilmes, brother Kenneth Turner Anderson and step-sister Cleo Belle Cummings.
The family would like to thank her caregivers Ilona and Tania at River Villa in Milwaukie, who treated her with kindness and respect in her final two years.
~Mt. Scott Funeral Home
July 10, 1922 to March 3, 2020
Glorialee Anderson Paulson Wilmes was born on July 10, 1922 in Portland Oregon to Corrine and Kenneth “Turner” Anderson. She grew up with her little brother Buddy (Kenneth Turner Junior) in the Rose City, Hollywood and Hawthorne neighborhoods and graduated from Washington High School in 1940. A large part of Gloria’s childhood was spent living with her grandparents who she and Buddy adored. She was always very proud of her grandfather Joe Hutchinson’s career with the City of Portland and her grandmother Lelah’s beautiful hand sewing and astute business mind. One of Gloria’s special memories was of Grandpa Joe taking her as a four year old to visit his mother on Sunday mornings. He would say, “Glorialee, let’s take the radio down to your great-grandmother’s house so she can listen to the church sermon.” While her Great-Grandma Susan listened to the preacher, Grandpa Joe would say, “Glorialee, let’s take a walk down the street to see the progress on “our bridge”.” Little Gloria always thought that the Burnside Bridge being reconstructed in 1926 belonged to them. In 1934 Gloria’s parents divorced and her mother Corrine married Leo Harrison. Gloria loved her step-father Leo and gained a flamboyant and lovable step-sister, Cleo.
After high school, Gloria attended Oregon State University for a year on a scholarship. She lived in a boarding house and worked as a hostess at a restaurant, but money was tight and she had to abandon her dream of college. She then worked for two years in the payroll office at Longview Fiber in Longview Washington, taking the bus back to Portland on the weekends to visit her family. In 1943 she married Richard Velmer Paulson. While Dick was away during the war and then while he attended college afterward, they started their family. Their first child Charlotte died at the age of 4 from leukemia. But son Lee had already come along in 1947 and then JoEllen was born in 1950. Dick was called back into service for the Korean War and was stationed in Spokane where son Jeff was born in 1952. In 1962 they were transferred by Dick’s employer Kaiser Aluminum to Deerfield Illinois. Through the years of raising their family, Gloria ran an in-home daycare business to augment the family income. Later when her kids were in college she worked as the director of a nursing home. When Dick was nearing retirement, they bought a motel in Kenosha Wisconsin which Gloria managed. When Dick retired they moved back home to Portland.
Gloria always loved her home town of Portland and taught her children to consider it home even though they had only spent short vacations here throughout their childhoods. Naturally, all three kids came to Portland to live once they were married and they all raised their own families here. After enjoying some years of travel and being near grandkids in retirement, Dick passed away in 1996 and Dick’s sister Helen came to live with Gloria for many years. In 1999 sons Lee and Jeff introduced Gloria to a man who worked in Jeff’s airplane hangar. They proposed that she look after him following a surgery he was scheduled to have. That is how Woody Wilmes came into her life and became her second husband. With Woody she bought a second home in Columbus New Mexico and she loved flying in Woody’s small airplane between Portland and Columbus. When Woody became ill with cancer she took care of him until his death.
Gloria loved her children and grand-children, and she doted on her dogs. She was so outgoing and made friends with just about everyone who crossed her path. She was known for having strong opinions, loving the color pink, having an adventurous spirit and for looking after family and friends in need. She read voraciously, was proud of her pioneering family history and enjoyed researching her genealogy with her niece Kevan.
Gloria is survived by her: children Lee Paulson (Melony), JoEllen Newton and Jeff Paulson (Vicki) and former daughters-in-law Karen Angeline and Audrey Ruth; grand-children: Tara Lindis-Corbell (Kent) and Phaedra E Paulson (Joe Tannis); Patrick Newton (Donnie Powell), Brian Newton (Natalie) and Chris Newton; Adam Paulson (Alli), Ben Paulson, Katrina Paulson and Meng Paulson; Briana Linden (Troy) and Jeffrey Nelson(Csilla Toth); Rovina Lerio; and eleven great-grandchildren.
Gloria is preceded in death by: daughter Charlotte, husband Dick Paulson, husband Woody
Wilmes, brother Kenneth Turner Anderson and step-sister Cleo Belle Cummings.
The family would like to thank her caregivers Ilona and Tania at River Villa in Milwaukie, who treated her with kindness and respect in her final two years.
~Mt. Scott Funeral Home
Glorialee Wilmes
July 10, 1922 to March 3, 2020
Glorialee Anderson Paulson Wilmes was born on July 10, 1922 in Portland Oregon to Corrine and Kenneth “Turner” Anderson. She grew up with her little brother Buddy (Kenneth Turner Junior) in the Rose City, Hollywood and Hawthorne neighborhoods and graduated from Washington High School in 1940. A large part of Gloria’s childhood was spent living with her grandparents who she and Buddy adored. She was always very proud of her grandfather Joe Hutchinson’s career with the City of Portland and her grandmother Lelah’s beautiful hand sewing and astute business mind. One of Gloria’s special memories was of Grandpa Joe taking her as a four year old to visit his mother on Sunday mornings. He would say, “Glorialee, let’s take the radio down to your great-grandmother’s house so she can listen to the church sermon.” While her Great-Grandma Susan listened to the preacher, Grandpa Joe would say, “Glorialee, let’s take a walk down the street to see the progress on “our bridge”.” Little Gloria always thought that the Burnside Bridge being reconstructed in 1926 belonged to them. In 1934 Gloria’s parents divorced and her mother Corrine married Leo Harrison. Gloria loved her step-father Leo and gained a flamboyant and lovable step-sister, Cleo.
After high school, Gloria attended Oregon State University for a year on a scholarship. She lived in a boarding house and worked as a hostess at a restaurant, but money was tight and she had to abandon her dream of college. She then worked for two years in the payroll office at Longview Fiber in Longview Washington, taking the bus back to Portland on the weekends to visit her family. In 1943 she married Richard Velmer Paulson. While Dick was away during the war and then while he attended college afterward, they started their family. Their first child Charlotte died at the age of 4 from leukemia. But son Lee had already come along in 1947 and then JoEllen was born in 1950. Dick was called back into service for the Korean War and was stationed in Spokane where son Jeff was born in 1952. In 1962 they were transferred by Dick’s employer Kaiser Aluminum to Deerfield Illinois. Through the years of raising their family, Gloria ran an in-home daycare business to augment the family income. Later when her kids were in college she worked as the director of a nursing home. When Dick was nearing retirement, they bought a motel in Kenosha Wisconsin which Gloria managed. When Dick retired they moved back home to Portland.
Gloria always loved her home town of Portland and taught her children to consider it home even though they had only spent short vacations here throughout their childhoods. Naturally, all three kids came to Portland to live once they were married and they all raised their own families here. After enjoying some years of travel and being near grandkids in retirement, Dick passed away in 1996 and Dick’s sister Helen came to live with Gloria for many years. In 1999 sons Lee and Jeff introduced Gloria to a man who worked in Jeff’s airplane hangar. They proposed that she look after him following a surgery he was scheduled to have. That is how Woody Wilmes came into her life and became her second husband. With Woody she bought a second home in Columbus New Mexico and she loved flying in Woody’s small airplane between Portland and Columbus. When Woody became ill with cancer she took care of him until his death.
Gloria loved her children and grand-children, and she doted on her dogs. She was so outgoing and made friends with just about everyone who crossed her path. She was known for having strong opinions, loving the color pink, having an adventurous spirit and for looking after family and friends in need. She read voraciously, was proud of her pioneering family history and enjoyed researching her genealogy with her niece Kevan.
Gloria is survived by her: children Lee Paulson (Melony), JoEllen Newton and Jeff Paulson (Vicki) and former daughters-in-law Karen Angeline and Audrey Ruth; grand-children: Tara Lindis-Corbell (Kent) and Phaedra E Paulson (Joe Tannis); Patrick Newton (Donnie Powell), Brian Newton (Natalie) and Chris Newton; Adam Paulson (Alli), Ben Paulson, Katrina Paulson and Meng Paulson; Briana Linden (Troy) and Jeffrey Nelson(Csilla Toth); Rovina Lerio; and eleven great-grandchildren.
Gloria is preceded in death by: daughter Charlotte, husband Dick Paulson, husband Woody
Wilmes, brother Kenneth Turner Anderson and step-sister Cleo Belle Cummings.
The family would like to thank her caregivers Ilona and Tania at River Villa in Milwaukie, who treated her with kindness and respect in her final two years.
~Mt. Scott Funeral Home
July 10, 1922 to March 3, 2020
Glorialee Anderson Paulson Wilmes was born on July 10, 1922 in Portland Oregon to Corrine and Kenneth “Turner” Anderson. She grew up with her little brother Buddy (Kenneth Turner Junior) in the Rose City, Hollywood and Hawthorne neighborhoods and graduated from Washington High School in 1940. A large part of Gloria’s childhood was spent living with her grandparents who she and Buddy adored. She was always very proud of her grandfather Joe Hutchinson’s career with the City of Portland and her grandmother Lelah’s beautiful hand sewing and astute business mind. One of Gloria’s special memories was of Grandpa Joe taking her as a four year old to visit his mother on Sunday mornings. He would say, “Glorialee, let’s take the radio down to your great-grandmother’s house so she can listen to the church sermon.” While her Great-Grandma Susan listened to the preacher, Grandpa Joe would say, “Glorialee, let’s take a walk down the street to see the progress on “our bridge”.” Little Gloria always thought that the Burnside Bridge being reconstructed in 1926 belonged to them. In 1934 Gloria’s parents divorced and her mother Corrine married Leo Harrison. Gloria loved her step-father Leo and gained a flamboyant and lovable step-sister, Cleo.
After high school, Gloria attended Oregon State University for a year on a scholarship. She lived in a boarding house and worked as a hostess at a restaurant, but money was tight and she had to abandon her dream of college. She then worked for two years in the payroll office at Longview Fiber in Longview Washington, taking the bus back to Portland on the weekends to visit her family. In 1943 she married Richard Velmer Paulson. While Dick was away during the war and then while he attended college afterward, they started their family. Their first child Charlotte died at the age of 4 from leukemia. But son Lee had already come along in 1947 and then JoEllen was born in 1950. Dick was called back into service for the Korean War and was stationed in Spokane where son Jeff was born in 1952. In 1962 they were transferred by Dick’s employer Kaiser Aluminum to Deerfield Illinois. Through the years of raising their family, Gloria ran an in-home daycare business to augment the family income. Later when her kids were in college she worked as the director of a nursing home. When Dick was nearing retirement, they bought a motel in Kenosha Wisconsin which Gloria managed. When Dick retired they moved back home to Portland.
Gloria always loved her home town of Portland and taught her children to consider it home even though they had only spent short vacations here throughout their childhoods. Naturally, all three kids came to Portland to live once they were married and they all raised their own families here. After enjoying some years of travel and being near grandkids in retirement, Dick passed away in 1996 and Dick’s sister Helen came to live with Gloria for many years. In 1999 sons Lee and Jeff introduced Gloria to a man who worked in Jeff’s airplane hangar. They proposed that she look after him following a surgery he was scheduled to have. That is how Woody Wilmes came into her life and became her second husband. With Woody she bought a second home in Columbus New Mexico and she loved flying in Woody’s small airplane between Portland and Columbus. When Woody became ill with cancer she took care of him until his death.
Gloria loved her children and grand-children, and she doted on her dogs. She was so outgoing and made friends with just about everyone who crossed her path. She was known for having strong opinions, loving the color pink, having an adventurous spirit and for looking after family and friends in need. She read voraciously, was proud of her pioneering family history and enjoyed researching her genealogy with her niece Kevan.
Gloria is survived by her: children Lee Paulson (Melony), JoEllen Newton and Jeff Paulson (Vicki) and former daughters-in-law Karen Angeline and Audrey Ruth; grand-children: Tara Lindis-Corbell (Kent) and Phaedra E Paulson (Joe Tannis); Patrick Newton (Donnie Powell), Brian Newton (Natalie) and Chris Newton; Adam Paulson (Alli), Ben Paulson, Katrina Paulson and Meng Paulson; Briana Linden (Troy) and Jeffrey Nelson(Csilla Toth); Rovina Lerio; and eleven great-grandchildren.
Gloria is preceded in death by: daughter Charlotte, husband Dick Paulson, husband Woody
Wilmes, brother Kenneth Turner Anderson and step-sister Cleo Belle Cummings.
The family would like to thank her caregivers Ilona and Tania at River Villa in Milwaukie, who treated her with kindness and respect in her final two years.
~Mt. Scott Funeral Home
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