Gladys Amelia Worsham

May 6, 1925 – December 20, 2015

Gladys Amelia Worsham, a resident of Moses Lake, passed away Sunday, Dec. 20, 2015 at Brookdale at Hearthstone. Viewing will be from 9:30 to 10:20 a.m., Monday, Dec. 28 at the Emmanuel Baptist Church, 516 E. Nelson Road, Moses Lake followed by funeral services at 10:30 a.m. Please sign the online guestbook or leave a note for the family at www.kayserschapel.com. Arrangements are in care of Kayser’s Chapel & Crematory.

Gladys was born on May 6, 1925 to Hazel and Cornelius Norwood in Springfield, Ark. As a young woman living and working in Texas, she met Edgar J. Worsham in February 1946. A week later they married on Feb. 21, 1946, a marriage that has lasted almost seventy years. They had two children, Joseph E. Worsham, and Gloria Worsham Bailey.

Gladys had five brothers, Neal Norwood, Wayne Norwood, Wendell Norwood, Edwin Norwood, and Elmer Norwood. Neal and Elmer preceded her in death. She has one sister, Martha Garton of Merced, Calif. She had an infant sister who was stillborn. Her mother, Hazel Norwood, lived to be 102 years old. Her father and mother preceded her in death.

Gladys and Edgar raised their two children in Bridgeport, Wash. Gladys was the sweetest and kindest person we knew. She never met a stranger. She attended the Emmanuel Baptist Church in Moses Lake for many years. She was a faithful and devoted wife to her husband for sixty-nine years.

She leaves behind her husband, Edgar of Moses Lake, her son Joe (Jeanne) of Soap Lake, Wash., and her daughter, Gloria (Dan) of Kelso, Wash. She had six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.