Name: Austin, Glenda Gale(Gable)
Burial Date: 1999, 01/06
Age at Death: 77
Plot Location: 459 E
Notes: wife of Willis Fred Austin

Glenda Gale Austin, Ellsworth, died Friday, Jan. 1, 1999 at Ellsworth Memorial Hospital, at the age of 77.

She was born on April 28, 1921, in Wilson County, near Coffeeville,  Kansas, the daughter of Charles William and Hazel June (Partington) Gable. She had been a resident of Ellsworth for 12 years, formerly of Larned.  She was a homemaker and attended the United Methodist Church, Ellsworth, Kansas.

On July 17, 1939, she married William Fred Austin at McPherson., KS.  He died Dec. 23, 1986.

Survivors include a daughter and son-in-law, Glenda and Jerry Armstrong, Ellsworth; two brothers, Harold Gable, Chase, and Verle Gable, Exeter, MO; five sisters, Joyce White, Gardner; Fain Boley, Republic, MO; Shirlie Bower, Loveland, CO; Mae Riedel, Bellevue, WA; and Donna Graves, Shell Knob, MO; three grandchildren, J.D. Armstrong II, and Audrey Armstrong, Ellsworth, and Jennifer Gaston, Concord, NC. She was preceded in death by two brothers, Dwight Gable and Dean Gable.

Services were held at 10″30 a.m. Wednesday at Sillin Funeral Home, Sterling, with Dr. John Snook officiating. Burial was in the Sterling Community Cemetery. Memorials to the Ellsworth Needy Family Fund or the Ellsworth United Methodist Youth, in care of the mortuary.

Glenda Gale Gable

1921–1999