Gay Eileen was born July 22, 1907, in Salina, the daughter of Walter Leon Austin and Estelle Mary (Burr) Austin. She graduated from Salina High School and Kansas Wesleyan University and was an elementary school teacher.
On Oct. 8, 1933, Gay married Glen Albert Nothern in Salina. She taught in Herington and Culver and retired in 1972, after teaching for many years in Salina at Hawthorne, Parkview and Lowell schools.
During World War II and for several years after, she worked with her father and then her husband, Glen, in their neighborhood grocery store on South 10th Street in Salina. She was a lifelong member of First United Methodist Church in Salina.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Glen, in 1991. She was also preceded in death by her parents; and two brothers, Ovett and James B. Austin.
Gay is survived by two sons and their wives, Austin and Marianna Nothern, and Jim and Shirley Nothern; five grandchildren, Glen "Chip" Nothern, Noel Nothern, Nathalie Wessling, Brent Nothern,, and Mary Lemmon; and seven great-grandchildren.
On Oct. 8, 1933, Gay married Glen Albert Nothern in Salina. She taught in Herington and Culver and retired in 1972, after teaching for many years in Salina at Hawthorne, Parkview and Lowell schools.
During World War II and for several years after, she worked with her father and then her husband, Glen, in their neighborhood grocery store on South 10th Street in Salina. She was a lifelong member of First United Methodist Church in Salina.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Glen, in 1991. She was also preceded in death by her parents; and two brothers, Ovett and James B. Austin.
Gay is survived by two sons and their wives, Austin and Marianna Nothern, and Jim and Shirley Nothern; five grandchildren, Glen "Chip" Nothern, Noel Nothern, Nathalie Wessling, Brent Nothern,, and Mary Lemmon; and seven great-grandchildren.
Gay Eileen was born July 22, 1907, in Salina, the daughter of Walter Leon Austin and Estelle Mary (Burr) Austin. She graduated from Salina High School and Kansas Wesleyan University and was an elementary school teacher.
On Oct. 8, 1933, Gay married Glen Albert Nothern in Salina. She taught in Herington and Culver and retired in 1972, after teaching for many years in Salina at Hawthorne, Parkview and Lowell schools.
During World War II and for several years after, she worked with her father and then her husband, Glen, in their neighborhood grocery store on South 10th Street in Salina. She was a lifelong member of First United Methodist Church in Salina.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Glen, in 1991. She was also preceded in death by her parents; and two brothers, Ovett and James B. Austin.
Gay is survived by two sons and their wives, Austin and Marianna Nothern, and Jim and Shirley Nothern; five grandchildren, Glen "Chip" Nothern, Noel Nothern, Nathalie Wessling, Brent Nothern,, and Mary Lemmon; and seven great-grandchildren.
On Oct. 8, 1933, Gay married Glen Albert Nothern in Salina. She taught in Herington and Culver and retired in 1972, after teaching for many years in Salina at Hawthorne, Parkview and Lowell schools.
During World War II and for several years after, she worked with her father and then her husband, Glen, in their neighborhood grocery store on South 10th Street in Salina. She was a lifelong member of First United Methodist Church in Salina.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Glen, in 1991. She was also preceded in death by her parents; and two brothers, Ovett and James B. Austin.
Gay is survived by two sons and their wives, Austin and Marianna Nothern, and Jim and Shirley Nothern; five grandchildren, Glen "Chip" Nothern, Noel Nothern, Nathalie Wessling, Brent Nothern,, and Mary Lemmon; and seven great-grandchildren.
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