Gleaning Facebook: Gladys McCoulough

 In memory of Gladys McCullough. Gladys died today. She went to the hospital just Sunday night with an sudden intestinal problem that quickly turned very serious when it was compounded with a stroke. Her husband Lavay is my first cousin. Mother says Lavay seemed more like a little brother since he and his mother lived with her family during part of his childhood. Here is a picture of Gladys from Labor Day 2009.

• Selected comments from Facebook

  (Thanks to the many others who expressed their condolences as well.)

  
  

  Ruth Baird Shaw

  Thank you dear Terry for that remembrance and tribute to Gladys, a beautiful Christian lady! She wil be missed as long as any of us live.

  
  Lynne Crothers Williams
  Sorry to hear of your family's loss; your Labor Day's are becoming a time of celebration and remembrance.

  
  

  Terrell Shaw

  Thanks. I never lived close to Lavay's family, but they are the sort of folks who are so warm and genuine that you renew close feeling quickly at each wedding, funeral, or family reunion. The picture above was taken at the Baird Reunion at my mother's house last year. Gladys was a loving, smart mother, wife, grandmother, teacher. She and Lavay seemed to dote on each other in a marriage that lasted more than fifty years. If for no other reason, I would love this family for my Aunt Sis's sake. Louise (Sis) was my mother's wonderful older sister and Lavay's mom.