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Gladys Ethlyn <I>Avery</I> Whitney

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Gladys Ethlyn Avery Whitney

Birth
Whitefish, Flathead County, Montana, USA
Death
17 Jun 1984 (aged 71)
Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA
Burial
Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA Add to Map
Plot
Remembrance Lawn, Lot 3209, Space 1a
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Service for Gladys E. Whitney, 71, will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Our Lady of Fatima Roman Catholic Church, E1517 33rd, where she was a member. Rev. Eugene F. Lester will officiate, and burial will follow at Riverside Memorial Park with Ball & Dodd-Thornhill & Langbehn Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Whitney died Sunday at her home here.

Born June 3, 1913, in Whitefish, Montana, she married Glenn Whitney in 1932 at Whitefish. Her home had been in Spokane since 1945.

Her husband, a music teacher, taught in Whitefish and Wallace before coming to Spokane. He taught band instruments for the Spokane All City Band, and he taught 33 years at Reardan, Edwall, Sprague and Latah in Eastern Washington and at Worley, Idaho. He now gives lessons at Hoffman Music Co.

Mrs. Whitney was a charter member and member of the board of Fort George Wright Historical Museum.

Survivors include her husband, at the home; two sons, Bernard Whitney of Bremerton and Jerry Whitney of Albuquerque, New Mexico; one daughter, Marci Whitney-Schenck of Chicago; one brother, Willis Avery of Anchorage, Alaska; and four grandchildren.

—Obituary from The Spokesman-Review and Spokane Chronicle; Tuesday, June 19, 1984. Additional information added from newspaper funeral notice.
Service for Gladys E. Whitney, 71, will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Our Lady of Fatima Roman Catholic Church, E1517 33rd, where she was a member. Rev. Eugene F. Lester will officiate, and burial will follow at Riverside Memorial Park with Ball & Dodd-Thornhill & Langbehn Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Whitney died Sunday at her home here.

Born June 3, 1913, in Whitefish, Montana, she married Glenn Whitney in 1932 at Whitefish. Her home had been in Spokane since 1945.

Her husband, a music teacher, taught in Whitefish and Wallace before coming to Spokane. He taught band instruments for the Spokane All City Band, and he taught 33 years at Reardan, Edwall, Sprague and Latah in Eastern Washington and at Worley, Idaho. He now gives lessons at Hoffman Music Co.

Mrs. Whitney was a charter member and member of the board of Fort George Wright Historical Museum.

Survivors include her husband, at the home; two sons, Bernard Whitney of Bremerton and Jerry Whitney of Albuquerque, New Mexico; one daughter, Marci Whitney-Schenck of Chicago; one brother, Willis Avery of Anchorage, Alaska; and four grandchildren.

—Obituary from The Spokesman-Review and Spokane Chronicle; Tuesday, June 19, 1984. Additional information added from newspaper funeral notice.


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