?Gladys Waterbury

September 25, 1928 – March 24, 2015

“A friend loves at all times”

~ Proverbs 17:17

Gladys exemplified the love of Christ in her actions and words, always.

She was a beloved wife, mother, grandmother, aunt, mother-in-law and friend to all.

GLadys was born September 25, 1928 in Moxee, Washington to Charles August Schmidt and Mary Florence Cavin Schmidt, the youngest of seven children.

She married David “Wayne” Waterbury on May 21,

1948 at the First Reformed Church just a quarter mile north of the old Moxee Central School, where they first met as children. Gladys and Wayne were married for 67 years.

She is survived by Wayne and her sons Bradley (Kim) and David (Corinne) Waterbury and daughter Wende (Wayne) Richardson as well as grandchildren Megan Colyar (Kale), Lauren Waterbury and Bryan and Tyler (Dannielle) Richardson. Her great- grandchildren are Aleighia and Sawyer Colyar.

Gladys was a hard worker, starting with her family’s hop fields as a child, in a cannery as a young mother and finally as office manager in an Orthodontist’s office, where she worked for 25 years.

When Wayne retired from the Washington State Patrol Gladys retired with him.

They enjoyed their trailer club, the Yakima Crickets, the Elks Club and socializing with their many friends and relatives.

Gladys grew up attending the First Reformed Church in Moxee. She and Wayne moved off the farm to Yakima in 1955, then moved to Sequim in 1995 where they attended the Sequim Presbyterian Church.

When Gladys became too ill to go to church she spent Sunday morning watching TV services, what she called “church in a chair.”

Gladys and Wayne’s final move was on Thanksgiving 2014, to Brookdale, a retirement community two miles from David and Corinne’s house in Newberg, Oregon.

After a two-year bout with cancer, Gladys died peacefully at home on March 24th, 2015. She is now residing in a penthouse in heaven.

Services are scheduled for 11 a.m., April 17, 2015 at the Rainer Center at Terrace Heights Memorial Cemetery, Yakima.

Gladys requested that remembrances be given to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, at http://www.fredhutch.org.