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Gladys Edith Crumley Minden Davey Burton |
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October 6, 1923 ~ January 20, 2018 |
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January 22, 2018 |
Gladys Edith Crumley (Minden-Davey-Burton)
passed away January 20, 2018, at the age of 94.
Funeral Services will be held at 10:30 a.m.
Tuesday, January 23, at Woodland Mennonite
Church, 7336 Olympic Way, Bonners Ferry, with
interment in the Woodland Mennonite Cemetery.
Born October 6, 1923, in Rainier, Washington to
Charles Crumley and Mary Esther Midkiff Crumley,
Gladys was the youngest of six siblings. She
grew up in Yelm, Washington.
While working in the shipyards during World War
II she met and married submarine sailor Saron
Keith Minden in 1942. Oldest son Virgil was born
in Centralia in 1944. After the war, they moved
to Spokane, where Saron’s family lived, and in
1951 they homesteaded a small farm north of
Moses Lake, where Gladys was in charge of
milking 30-40 cows every day.
Twin sons Edward Alan and Teddie Lynn were born
in Spokane in 1950 and youngest son Kenneth
James was born in Moses Lake in 1952.
After their divorce in the 1960s, Gladys moved
to southern California, where she met and
married Ed Davey. After his death, Gladys
married George Burton, who also preceded her in
death.
Gladys had a giving heart and this served her
well in her career of being a care-taker of the
elderly and home bound, including famous 1930s –
1940s movie star William Powell and several
other patients, until she was 80 years old.
She and George lived in College Place,
Washington, before she moved to the Restorium in
Bonners Ferry in June, 2011. She spent the last
two years at the Sunset Home.
Her sons Ted (1983) and Ken (2014), also
preceded her in death.
Gladys is survived by sons Ed Minden, Bonners
Ferry, and Virgil Minden, Sandpoint, 12
grandchildren, 26 great-grand children and five
great-great-grandchildren. |
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