Gladys Gray DeRemer

Gladys DeRemer, 91, of Arlington, died August 10,
2005.
She was born February 4, 1914, in Warren,
Pennsylvania, the daughter of John E. and Rose Jones
Gray.
On November 14, 1946, she married Roy W. DeRemer, of
Meadville, Pennsylvania, and in February 1947, they
came to Seattle, Washington, where they bought a home
and their own business in the North End. In 1959, they
purchased a farm on the Jordan Road, near Arlington.
From 1965 until 1978, Gladys was employed at the
Arlington Times Office, where she made many new
friends and became devoted to her work.
Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by her
husband, Roy; brother, Merritt L. Gray, of North
Warren, Pennsylvania; and her sister, Evelyn Dunn, of
Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Surviving is her daughter, Nadine (John) Wight, of
Bothell, Washington; two granddaughters, Kari Anne
Wight, and her children, Jasmine and Hunter, and Stacy
Wight (Juan) Marquez, and their children, Juan A. and
Jocelyn, all of Everett; special nieces, Deanne
Harris, of Las Cruces, New Mexico, and Samantha Dunn,
of Los Angeles; and numerous other nieces, nephews and
cousins she loved deeply throughout the East.
Gladys appreciated her many friends and enjoyed living
a long and happy life. She loved the country life,
working in her flowers and yard and feeding the song
birds faithfully year in, year out. In her younger
years she hunted wild game and fished the ocean, lakes
and streams with her husband in our beautiful entire
Washington State and Idaho as well.
A private family gathering will be held. Burial will
be in the Arlington Cemetery following cre-mation.
Memorials may be made to the American Diabetes
Asso-ciation.
At the end of this obituary, which Gladys composed,
she wrote:
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Arrangements entrusted to Weller Funeral Home.


Published in the Daily Herald on 8/12/2005.