GLADYS BADON WAS THE ONLY DAUGHTER OF ROBERT JOSEPH BADON AND LEONCIA GUIDRY. GLADYS AND HER PARENTS WERE BORN IN LOUISIANA AS WELL AS HER THREE BROTHERS.
GLADYS WAS AROUND EIGHT YEARS OLD WHEN HER PARENTS MOVED THE FAMILY TO JEFFERSON COUNTY TEXAS. GLADYS GREW UP LIVING ON THE DAIRY THAT HER PARENTS OWNED.
GLADYS' MOM COULD SEW FAIRLY GOOD AND COULD MAKE CLOTHES BY HAND. HOWEVER, SHE HAD NOT USED A SEWING MACHINE VERY MUCH.
WHEN GLADYS WAS TWELVE YEARS OLD, HER MOM BOUGHT HER A SEWING MACHINE SO THEY COULD LEARN TO USE IT TOGETHER.
THEY WORKED ON PROJECTS FOR A FEW YEARS UNTIL HER MOM STARTED GETTING SICK OFTEN. GLADYS HAD TO TAKE OVER COOKING MEALS AND DO A LITTLE HOUSE WORK. THE FIRST TIME GLADYS HAD TO CUT UP A CHICKEN, HER MOM HAD HER BRING A BOWL, KNIFE AND A SMALL TABLE TO HER BEDSIDE SO SHE COULD INSTRUCT GLADYS ON HOW TO CUT THE CHICKEN.
NOT LONG AFTER THAT, GLADYS' MOM WENT TO STAY IN THE HOSPITAL FOR FOUR DAYS. SEVERAL HOURS AFTER GETTING HOME FROM THE HOSPITAL, GLADYS' MOM DIED... THAT WAS A FEW DAYS BEFORE GLADYS' 16th BIRTHDAY.
GLADYS' DAD ASKED HER AUNT LUCILLE TO STAY WITH THEM FOR AWHILE SO SHE COULD KEEP GLADYS COMPANY AND HELP AROUND THE HOUSE.
THE TIME CAME WHEN AUNT LUCILLE COULD NO LONGER STAY WITH GLADYS. GLADYS LIVED WITH HER DAD OFF AND ON BUT ALSO LIVED WITH RELATIVES.
IN 1932, GLADYS MARRIED JESSIE SEP JACOBS. THAT WAS DURING "THE DEPRESSION" ERA. THEY WERE VERY POOR BUT HAD THREE KIDS BY 1940. GLADYS AND JESSIE MOVED FROM ONE DUMPY ROOMING HOUSE TO ANOTHER AND TRIED TO FEED THE KIDS.
WHEN GLADYS COULD FIND PIECES OF MATERIAL (MOSTLY USED MATERIAL)SHE USED THE SEWING MACHINE HER MOM HAD BOUGHT FOR HER TO MAKE CLOTHES AND UNDER GARMENTS FOR HER KIDS.
IN 1942, THEIR 4TH CHILD WAS BORN. BY THEN, THEY WERE RENTING MORE THAN ONE ROOM AT A TIME BUT COULD NOT AFFORD MUCH FOOD. THEY STILL LET THE KIDS SPEND A LOT OF TIME WITH RELATIVES SO THE KIDS COULD EAT.
BY 1950, JESSIE HAD BEEN WORKING AT A SHOP WHERE HE MADE A DECENT SALARY. BUT RENT, UTILITIES, AND TRANSPORTATION TOOK MORE THAN HE MADE. THEIR OLDEST DAUGHTER MARRIED BUT LATER DIVORCED HER HUSBAND AND MOVED BACK HOME WITH A DAUGHTER.
BY THEN, GLADYS HAD ANOTHER BABY.
IN 1954, GLADYS HAD HER LAST BABY. (A TOTAL OF SIX.)
BY 1959, GLADYS ONLY HAD TWO KIDS LEFT AT HOME TO RAISE. THAT WAS THE YEAR THAT GLADYS WENT TO SPEND THE LAST FEW WEEKS OF HER DADS LIFE AT HIS HOME. HER MIDDLE DAUGHTER STAYED WITH THE TWO YOUNGER ONES WHILE GLADYS WAS AWAY.
AFTER HER DAD DIED, GLADYS SPENT THE NEXT 18 YEARS RAISING HER LAST TWO KIDS AND A SET OF THREE GRANDKIDS. BEFORE THOSE THREE GRANDKIDS WERE ADULTS, GLADYS HAD TO HELP RAISE ANOTHER SET OF THREE GRANDKIDS.
GLADYS MADE CLOTHES FOR OVER HALF OF HER TWENTY-FIVE GRAND KIDS. SHE MADE ALL OF HER GRANDKIDS FEEL LOVED AND SPECIAL.
IN 1977, GLADYS SAT AT THE SEWING MACHINE HER MOM HAD BOUGHT HER AND MADE HERSELF A LIGHT COLORED DRESS. SHE ADDED GOLD COLORED TRIM ON THE SLEEVES AND NECK OF THE DRESS. SHE BOUGHT A NECKLACE AND SOME EAR RINGS TO WARE WITH THE DRESS. SHE WORE THE DRESS A FEW TIMES THEN WRAPPED IT IN CLEAR PLASTIC AND HUNG IT IN THE CLOSET WITH THE JEWELRY PINNED AT THE TOP. GLADYS TOLD HER YOUNGEST DAUGHTER THAT SHE WAS SAVING THE DRESS TO BE BURIED IN. SHE ALSO TOLD HER HOW HER BELONGINGS WERE TO BE DIVIDED...
IN AUGUST OF THAT YEAR, GLADYS' MIDDLE DAUGHTER TOOK GLADYS AND JESSIE TO HAVE PHOTOS MADE. THE THREE OF THEM HAD A GOOD TIME THAT DAY AND LAUGHED A LOT.
IN NOVEMBER, WHILE VISITING HER OLDEST DAUGHTER UP AROUND DALLAS, GLADYS' A-ARTERY RUPTURED AND SHE DIED...
LITTLE DID ANYONE KNOW THAT THOSE PHOTOS GLADYS TOOK IN AUGUST WOULD BE THE LAST PHOTOS GLADYS WOULD BE IN...
GLADYS WAS LAID TO REST IN RYAN CEMETERY CLOSE TO DATON TEXAS. NINE YEARS LATER, HER HUSBAND JOINED HER IN RYAN CEMETERY. IN 1998, THEIR YOUNGEST CHILD DIED OF CANCER AND JOINED THEM IN RYAN CEMETERY... BEFORE THE YOUNGEST SON DIED, THEIR TWO OLDEST KIDS HAD DIED. (ONE IS BURIED IN CENTERVILLE CEMETERY AND ONE IS BURIED IN HOUSTON NATIONAL CEMETERY.)
NOW, IN 2010, GLADYS' THREE MIDDLE DAUGHTERS STILL SURVIVE... (LEONA MAE, CHARLOTTE ANN AND JACKIE SUE.) THEY ARE TOUGH OLD BIRDS THAT KEEP FLUTTERING ON...
THE 1926 SEWING MACHINE HAS BEEN PASSED DOWN TO A STABLE GRAND DAUGHTER WHO WILL PASS IT ON TO A GREAT GRAND DAUGHTER (IF SHE CARES ABOUT THE MACHINE AND WANTS TO USE IT WITH HER DAUGHTER...)
GLADYS WAS AROUND EIGHT YEARS OLD WHEN HER PARENTS MOVED THE FAMILY TO JEFFERSON COUNTY TEXAS. GLADYS GREW UP LIVING ON THE DAIRY THAT HER PARENTS OWNED.
GLADYS' MOM COULD SEW FAIRLY GOOD AND COULD MAKE CLOTHES BY HAND. HOWEVER, SHE HAD NOT USED A SEWING MACHINE VERY MUCH.
WHEN GLADYS WAS TWELVE YEARS OLD, HER MOM BOUGHT HER A SEWING MACHINE SO THEY COULD LEARN TO USE IT TOGETHER.
THEY WORKED ON PROJECTS FOR A FEW YEARS UNTIL HER MOM STARTED GETTING SICK OFTEN. GLADYS HAD TO TAKE OVER COOKING MEALS AND DO A LITTLE HOUSE WORK. THE FIRST TIME GLADYS HAD TO CUT UP A CHICKEN, HER MOM HAD HER BRING A BOWL, KNIFE AND A SMALL TABLE TO HER BEDSIDE SO SHE COULD INSTRUCT GLADYS ON HOW TO CUT THE CHICKEN.
NOT LONG AFTER THAT, GLADYS' MOM WENT TO STAY IN THE HOSPITAL FOR FOUR DAYS. SEVERAL HOURS AFTER GETTING HOME FROM THE HOSPITAL, GLADYS' MOM DIED... THAT WAS A FEW DAYS BEFORE GLADYS' 16th BIRTHDAY.
GLADYS' DAD ASKED HER AUNT LUCILLE TO STAY WITH THEM FOR AWHILE SO SHE COULD KEEP GLADYS COMPANY AND HELP AROUND THE HOUSE.
THE TIME CAME WHEN AUNT LUCILLE COULD NO LONGER STAY WITH GLADYS. GLADYS LIVED WITH HER DAD OFF AND ON BUT ALSO LIVED WITH RELATIVES.
IN 1932, GLADYS MARRIED JESSIE SEP JACOBS. THAT WAS DURING "THE DEPRESSION" ERA. THEY WERE VERY POOR BUT HAD THREE KIDS BY 1940. GLADYS AND JESSIE MOVED FROM ONE DUMPY ROOMING HOUSE TO ANOTHER AND TRIED TO FEED THE KIDS.
WHEN GLADYS COULD FIND PIECES OF MATERIAL (MOSTLY USED MATERIAL)SHE USED THE SEWING MACHINE HER MOM HAD BOUGHT FOR HER TO MAKE CLOTHES AND UNDER GARMENTS FOR HER KIDS.
IN 1942, THEIR 4TH CHILD WAS BORN. BY THEN, THEY WERE RENTING MORE THAN ONE ROOM AT A TIME BUT COULD NOT AFFORD MUCH FOOD. THEY STILL LET THE KIDS SPEND A LOT OF TIME WITH RELATIVES SO THE KIDS COULD EAT.
BY 1950, JESSIE HAD BEEN WORKING AT A SHOP WHERE HE MADE A DECENT SALARY. BUT RENT, UTILITIES, AND TRANSPORTATION TOOK MORE THAN HE MADE. THEIR OLDEST DAUGHTER MARRIED BUT LATER DIVORCED HER HUSBAND AND MOVED BACK HOME WITH A DAUGHTER.
BY THEN, GLADYS HAD ANOTHER BABY.
IN 1954, GLADYS HAD HER LAST BABY. (A TOTAL OF SIX.)
BY 1959, GLADYS ONLY HAD TWO KIDS LEFT AT HOME TO RAISE. THAT WAS THE YEAR THAT GLADYS WENT TO SPEND THE LAST FEW WEEKS OF HER DADS LIFE AT HIS HOME. HER MIDDLE DAUGHTER STAYED WITH THE TWO YOUNGER ONES WHILE GLADYS WAS AWAY.
AFTER HER DAD DIED, GLADYS SPENT THE NEXT 18 YEARS RAISING HER LAST TWO KIDS AND A SET OF THREE GRANDKIDS. BEFORE THOSE THREE GRANDKIDS WERE ADULTS, GLADYS HAD TO HELP RAISE ANOTHER SET OF THREE GRANDKIDS.
GLADYS MADE CLOTHES FOR OVER HALF OF HER TWENTY-FIVE GRAND KIDS. SHE MADE ALL OF HER GRANDKIDS FEEL LOVED AND SPECIAL.
IN 1977, GLADYS SAT AT THE SEWING MACHINE HER MOM HAD BOUGHT HER AND MADE HERSELF A LIGHT COLORED DRESS. SHE ADDED GOLD COLORED TRIM ON THE SLEEVES AND NECK OF THE DRESS. SHE BOUGHT A NECKLACE AND SOME EAR RINGS TO WARE WITH THE DRESS. SHE WORE THE DRESS A FEW TIMES THEN WRAPPED IT IN CLEAR PLASTIC AND HUNG IT IN THE CLOSET WITH THE JEWELRY PINNED AT THE TOP. GLADYS TOLD HER YOUNGEST DAUGHTER THAT SHE WAS SAVING THE DRESS TO BE BURIED IN. SHE ALSO TOLD HER HOW HER BELONGINGS WERE TO BE DIVIDED...
IN AUGUST OF THAT YEAR, GLADYS' MIDDLE DAUGHTER TOOK GLADYS AND JESSIE TO HAVE PHOTOS MADE. THE THREE OF THEM HAD A GOOD TIME THAT DAY AND LAUGHED A LOT.
IN NOVEMBER, WHILE VISITING HER OLDEST DAUGHTER UP AROUND DALLAS, GLADYS' A-ARTERY RUPTURED AND SHE DIED...
LITTLE DID ANYONE KNOW THAT THOSE PHOTOS GLADYS TOOK IN AUGUST WOULD BE THE LAST PHOTOS GLADYS WOULD BE IN...
GLADYS WAS LAID TO REST IN RYAN CEMETERY CLOSE TO DATON TEXAS. NINE YEARS LATER, HER HUSBAND JOINED HER IN RYAN CEMETERY. IN 1998, THEIR YOUNGEST CHILD DIED OF CANCER AND JOINED THEM IN RYAN CEMETERY... BEFORE THE YOUNGEST SON DIED, THEIR TWO OLDEST KIDS HAD DIED. (ONE IS BURIED IN CENTERVILLE CEMETERY AND ONE IS BURIED IN HOUSTON NATIONAL CEMETERY.)
NOW, IN 2010, GLADYS' THREE MIDDLE DAUGHTERS STILL SURVIVE... (LEONA MAE, CHARLOTTE ANN AND JACKIE SUE.) THEY ARE TOUGH OLD BIRDS THAT KEEP FLUTTERING ON...
THE 1926 SEWING MACHINE HAS BEEN PASSED DOWN TO A STABLE GRAND DAUGHTER WHO WILL PASS IT ON TO A GREAT GRAND DAUGHTER (IF SHE CARES ABOUT THE MACHINE AND WANTS TO USE IT WITH HER DAUGHTER...)
GLADYS BADON WAS THE ONLY DAUGHTER OF ROBERT JOSEPH BADON AND LEONCIA GUIDRY. GLADYS AND HER PARENTS WERE BORN IN LOUISIANA AS WELL AS HER THREE BROTHERS.
GLADYS WAS AROUND EIGHT YEARS OLD WHEN HER PARENTS MOVED THE FAMILY TO JEFFERSON COUNTY TEXAS. GLADYS GREW UP LIVING ON THE DAIRY THAT HER PARENTS OWNED.
GLADYS' MOM COULD SEW FAIRLY GOOD AND COULD MAKE CLOTHES BY HAND. HOWEVER, SHE HAD NOT USED A SEWING MACHINE VERY MUCH.
WHEN GLADYS WAS TWELVE YEARS OLD, HER MOM BOUGHT HER A SEWING MACHINE SO THEY COULD LEARN TO USE IT TOGETHER.
THEY WORKED ON PROJECTS FOR A FEW YEARS UNTIL HER MOM STARTED GETTING SICK OFTEN. GLADYS HAD TO TAKE OVER COOKING MEALS AND DO A LITTLE HOUSE WORK. THE FIRST TIME GLADYS HAD TO CUT UP A CHICKEN, HER MOM HAD HER BRING A BOWL, KNIFE AND A SMALL TABLE TO HER BEDSIDE SO SHE COULD INSTRUCT GLADYS ON HOW TO CUT THE CHICKEN.
NOT LONG AFTER THAT, GLADYS' MOM WENT TO STAY IN THE HOSPITAL FOR FOUR DAYS. SEVERAL HOURS AFTER GETTING HOME FROM THE HOSPITAL, GLADYS' MOM DIED... THAT WAS A FEW DAYS BEFORE GLADYS' 16th BIRTHDAY.
GLADYS' DAD ASKED HER AUNT LUCILLE TO STAY WITH THEM FOR AWHILE SO SHE COULD KEEP GLADYS COMPANY AND HELP AROUND THE HOUSE.
THE TIME CAME WHEN AUNT LUCILLE COULD NO LONGER STAY WITH GLADYS. GLADYS LIVED WITH HER DAD OFF AND ON BUT ALSO LIVED WITH RELATIVES.
IN 1932, GLADYS MARRIED JESSIE SEP JACOBS. THAT WAS DURING "THE DEPRESSION" ERA. THEY WERE VERY POOR BUT HAD THREE KIDS BY 1940. GLADYS AND JESSIE MOVED FROM ONE DUMPY ROOMING HOUSE TO ANOTHER AND TRIED TO FEED THE KIDS.
WHEN GLADYS COULD FIND PIECES OF MATERIAL (MOSTLY USED MATERIAL)SHE USED THE SEWING MACHINE HER MOM HAD BOUGHT FOR HER TO MAKE CLOTHES AND UNDER GARMENTS FOR HER KIDS.
IN 1942, THEIR 4TH CHILD WAS BORN. BY THEN, THEY WERE RENTING MORE THAN ONE ROOM AT A TIME BUT COULD NOT AFFORD MUCH FOOD. THEY STILL LET THE KIDS SPEND A LOT OF TIME WITH RELATIVES SO THE KIDS COULD EAT.
BY 1950, JESSIE HAD BEEN WORKING AT A SHOP WHERE HE MADE A DECENT SALARY. BUT RENT, UTILITIES, AND TRANSPORTATION TOOK MORE THAN HE MADE. THEIR OLDEST DAUGHTER MARRIED BUT LATER DIVORCED HER HUSBAND AND MOVED BACK HOME WITH A DAUGHTER.
BY THEN, GLADYS HAD ANOTHER BABY.
IN 1954, GLADYS HAD HER LAST BABY. (A TOTAL OF SIX.)
BY 1959, GLADYS ONLY HAD TWO KIDS LEFT AT HOME TO RAISE. THAT WAS THE YEAR THAT GLADYS WENT TO SPEND THE LAST FEW WEEKS OF HER DADS LIFE AT HIS HOME. HER MIDDLE DAUGHTER STAYED WITH THE TWO YOUNGER ONES WHILE GLADYS WAS AWAY.
AFTER HER DAD DIED, GLADYS SPENT THE NEXT 18 YEARS RAISING HER LAST TWO KIDS AND A SET OF THREE GRANDKIDS. BEFORE THOSE THREE GRANDKIDS WERE ADULTS, GLADYS HAD TO HELP RAISE ANOTHER SET OF THREE GRANDKIDS.
GLADYS MADE CLOTHES FOR OVER HALF OF HER TWENTY-FIVE GRAND KIDS. SHE MADE ALL OF HER GRANDKIDS FEEL LOVED AND SPECIAL.
IN 1977, GLADYS SAT AT THE SEWING MACHINE HER MOM HAD BOUGHT HER AND MADE HERSELF A LIGHT COLORED DRESS. SHE ADDED GOLD COLORED TRIM ON THE SLEEVES AND NECK OF THE DRESS. SHE BOUGHT A NECKLACE AND SOME EAR RINGS TO WARE WITH THE DRESS. SHE WORE THE DRESS A FEW TIMES THEN WRAPPED IT IN CLEAR PLASTIC AND HUNG IT IN THE CLOSET WITH THE JEWELRY PINNED AT THE TOP. GLADYS TOLD HER YOUNGEST DAUGHTER THAT SHE WAS SAVING THE DRESS TO BE BURIED IN. SHE ALSO TOLD HER HOW HER BELONGINGS WERE TO BE DIVIDED...
IN AUGUST OF THAT YEAR, GLADYS' MIDDLE DAUGHTER TOOK GLADYS AND JESSIE TO HAVE PHOTOS MADE. THE THREE OF THEM HAD A GOOD TIME THAT DAY AND LAUGHED A LOT.
IN NOVEMBER, WHILE VISITING HER OLDEST DAUGHTER UP AROUND DALLAS, GLADYS' A-ARTERY RUPTURED AND SHE DIED...
LITTLE DID ANYONE KNOW THAT THOSE PHOTOS GLADYS TOOK IN AUGUST WOULD BE THE LAST PHOTOS GLADYS WOULD BE IN...
GLADYS WAS LAID TO REST IN RYAN CEMETERY CLOSE TO DATON TEXAS. NINE YEARS LATER, HER HUSBAND JOINED HER IN RYAN CEMETERY. IN 1998, THEIR YOUNGEST CHILD DIED OF CANCER AND JOINED THEM IN RYAN CEMETERY... BEFORE THE YOUNGEST SON DIED, THEIR TWO OLDEST KIDS HAD DIED. (ONE IS BURIED IN CENTERVILLE CEMETERY AND ONE IS BURIED IN HOUSTON NATIONAL CEMETERY.)
NOW, IN 2010, GLADYS' THREE MIDDLE DAUGHTERS STILL SURVIVE... (LEONA MAE, CHARLOTTE ANN AND JACKIE SUE.) THEY ARE TOUGH OLD BIRDS THAT KEEP FLUTTERING ON...
THE 1926 SEWING MACHINE HAS BEEN PASSED DOWN TO A STABLE GRAND DAUGHTER WHO WILL PASS IT ON TO A GREAT GRAND DAUGHTER (IF SHE CARES ABOUT THE MACHINE AND WANTS TO USE IT WITH HER DAUGHTER...)
GLADYS WAS AROUND EIGHT YEARS OLD WHEN HER PARENTS MOVED THE FAMILY TO JEFFERSON COUNTY TEXAS. GLADYS GREW UP LIVING ON THE DAIRY THAT HER PARENTS OWNED.
GLADYS' MOM COULD SEW FAIRLY GOOD AND COULD MAKE CLOTHES BY HAND. HOWEVER, SHE HAD NOT USED A SEWING MACHINE VERY MUCH.
WHEN GLADYS WAS TWELVE YEARS OLD, HER MOM BOUGHT HER A SEWING MACHINE SO THEY COULD LEARN TO USE IT TOGETHER.
THEY WORKED ON PROJECTS FOR A FEW YEARS UNTIL HER MOM STARTED GETTING SICK OFTEN. GLADYS HAD TO TAKE OVER COOKING MEALS AND DO A LITTLE HOUSE WORK. THE FIRST TIME GLADYS HAD TO CUT UP A CHICKEN, HER MOM HAD HER BRING A BOWL, KNIFE AND A SMALL TABLE TO HER BEDSIDE SO SHE COULD INSTRUCT GLADYS ON HOW TO CUT THE CHICKEN.
NOT LONG AFTER THAT, GLADYS' MOM WENT TO STAY IN THE HOSPITAL FOR FOUR DAYS. SEVERAL HOURS AFTER GETTING HOME FROM THE HOSPITAL, GLADYS' MOM DIED... THAT WAS A FEW DAYS BEFORE GLADYS' 16th BIRTHDAY.
GLADYS' DAD ASKED HER AUNT LUCILLE TO STAY WITH THEM FOR AWHILE SO SHE COULD KEEP GLADYS COMPANY AND HELP AROUND THE HOUSE.
THE TIME CAME WHEN AUNT LUCILLE COULD NO LONGER STAY WITH GLADYS. GLADYS LIVED WITH HER DAD OFF AND ON BUT ALSO LIVED WITH RELATIVES.
IN 1932, GLADYS MARRIED JESSIE SEP JACOBS. THAT WAS DURING "THE DEPRESSION" ERA. THEY WERE VERY POOR BUT HAD THREE KIDS BY 1940. GLADYS AND JESSIE MOVED FROM ONE DUMPY ROOMING HOUSE TO ANOTHER AND TRIED TO FEED THE KIDS.
WHEN GLADYS COULD FIND PIECES OF MATERIAL (MOSTLY USED MATERIAL)SHE USED THE SEWING MACHINE HER MOM HAD BOUGHT FOR HER TO MAKE CLOTHES AND UNDER GARMENTS FOR HER KIDS.
IN 1942, THEIR 4TH CHILD WAS BORN. BY THEN, THEY WERE RENTING MORE THAN ONE ROOM AT A TIME BUT COULD NOT AFFORD MUCH FOOD. THEY STILL LET THE KIDS SPEND A LOT OF TIME WITH RELATIVES SO THE KIDS COULD EAT.
BY 1950, JESSIE HAD BEEN WORKING AT A SHOP WHERE HE MADE A DECENT SALARY. BUT RENT, UTILITIES, AND TRANSPORTATION TOOK MORE THAN HE MADE. THEIR OLDEST DAUGHTER MARRIED BUT LATER DIVORCED HER HUSBAND AND MOVED BACK HOME WITH A DAUGHTER.
BY THEN, GLADYS HAD ANOTHER BABY.
IN 1954, GLADYS HAD HER LAST BABY. (A TOTAL OF SIX.)
BY 1959, GLADYS ONLY HAD TWO KIDS LEFT AT HOME TO RAISE. THAT WAS THE YEAR THAT GLADYS WENT TO SPEND THE LAST FEW WEEKS OF HER DADS LIFE AT HIS HOME. HER MIDDLE DAUGHTER STAYED WITH THE TWO YOUNGER ONES WHILE GLADYS WAS AWAY.
AFTER HER DAD DIED, GLADYS SPENT THE NEXT 18 YEARS RAISING HER LAST TWO KIDS AND A SET OF THREE GRANDKIDS. BEFORE THOSE THREE GRANDKIDS WERE ADULTS, GLADYS HAD TO HELP RAISE ANOTHER SET OF THREE GRANDKIDS.
GLADYS MADE CLOTHES FOR OVER HALF OF HER TWENTY-FIVE GRAND KIDS. SHE MADE ALL OF HER GRANDKIDS FEEL LOVED AND SPECIAL.
IN 1977, GLADYS SAT AT THE SEWING MACHINE HER MOM HAD BOUGHT HER AND MADE HERSELF A LIGHT COLORED DRESS. SHE ADDED GOLD COLORED TRIM ON THE SLEEVES AND NECK OF THE DRESS. SHE BOUGHT A NECKLACE AND SOME EAR RINGS TO WARE WITH THE DRESS. SHE WORE THE DRESS A FEW TIMES THEN WRAPPED IT IN CLEAR PLASTIC AND HUNG IT IN THE CLOSET WITH THE JEWELRY PINNED AT THE TOP. GLADYS TOLD HER YOUNGEST DAUGHTER THAT SHE WAS SAVING THE DRESS TO BE BURIED IN. SHE ALSO TOLD HER HOW HER BELONGINGS WERE TO BE DIVIDED...
IN AUGUST OF THAT YEAR, GLADYS' MIDDLE DAUGHTER TOOK GLADYS AND JESSIE TO HAVE PHOTOS MADE. THE THREE OF THEM HAD A GOOD TIME THAT DAY AND LAUGHED A LOT.
IN NOVEMBER, WHILE VISITING HER OLDEST DAUGHTER UP AROUND DALLAS, GLADYS' A-ARTERY RUPTURED AND SHE DIED...
LITTLE DID ANYONE KNOW THAT THOSE PHOTOS GLADYS TOOK IN AUGUST WOULD BE THE LAST PHOTOS GLADYS WOULD BE IN...
GLADYS WAS LAID TO REST IN RYAN CEMETERY CLOSE TO DATON TEXAS. NINE YEARS LATER, HER HUSBAND JOINED HER IN RYAN CEMETERY. IN 1998, THEIR YOUNGEST CHILD DIED OF CANCER AND JOINED THEM IN RYAN CEMETERY... BEFORE THE YOUNGEST SON DIED, THEIR TWO OLDEST KIDS HAD DIED. (ONE IS BURIED IN CENTERVILLE CEMETERY AND ONE IS BURIED IN HOUSTON NATIONAL CEMETERY.)
NOW, IN 2010, GLADYS' THREE MIDDLE DAUGHTERS STILL SURVIVE... (LEONA MAE, CHARLOTTE ANN AND JACKIE SUE.) THEY ARE TOUGH OLD BIRDS THAT KEEP FLUTTERING ON...
THE 1926 SEWING MACHINE HAS BEEN PASSED DOWN TO A STABLE GRAND DAUGHTER WHO WILL PASS IT ON TO A GREAT GRAND DAUGHTER (IF SHE CARES ABOUT THE MACHINE AND WANTS TO USE IT WITH HER DAUGHTER...)
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