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Gladys Para was born Gladys Cecilia Hutchinson on Sept. 25, 1928, in Spokane, Washington (in the early morning hours) at Sacred Heart Hospital, to Mildred Kohlhagen Hutchinson, German and second generation, and George Clement Hutchinson, British and first generation from New Zealand.

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Gladys Para
November 4, 2022 11:17 a.m.

Gladys Para

Gladys Para was born Gladys Cecilia Hutchinson on Sept. 25, 1928, in Spokane, Washington (in the early morning hours) at Sacred Heart Hospital, to Mildred Kohlhagen Hutchinson, German and second generation, and George Clement Hutchinson, British and first generation from New Zealand. Her father worked at the dam at Little Falls in Spokane when mom was born, and after briefly moving back to her mother’s family in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, they returned to Spokane where she and her brother George Ronald grew up until she passed fifth grade.