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Geneva Ida Hutchings Glaze

Sherman Herald Democrat, Wednesday November 17, 2004
transcription by Sue Glaze Dale

Geneva Ida Hutchings Glaze, formerly of Hugo, Oklahoma and a resident of Denison, departed this life on Friday November 12, 2004 at Parkland Hospital in Dallas of injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday November 18, 2004 in the Waldo Funeral Home Chapel. Rev. Danny Wood of West Sherman Baptist Church will officiate and the burial will follow at West Hill Cemetery.

Geneva was born on April 4, 1919 near the Messer community in Choctaw County, Oklahoma, a child of Thomas Jefferson 'Clyde' Hutchings and Mattie Blanche Askew Hutchings, She attended schools in that area and on October 2, 1937 she married Elzie Lawrence Glaze in Hugo, Choctaw County, Oklahoma. He preceded her in death on February 12, 1966.

She was a devoted housewife and homemaker who always took pride in the care of her home. She enjoyed gardening and was a skilled seamstress. While living in Lubbock, Texas she worked for the Lubbock school system and was also employed at TG&Y. She also worked with her husband as apartment managers in Dallas, Lubbock and Arlington.

She is survived by her four children; Dale Glaze of Denison, Bobby Joe Glaze and wife Peggy of Oklahoma City, Rita Sue Glaze Dale and husband Lawrence of Blossom, Texas, and Elzie Dean Glaze and wife Sylvia of Austin, as well as seven grandchildren, 14 living great grand-children and two great-great grandchildren. She is also survived by her sister Juanita Hutchings Boone of Hugo, Oklahoma and Sue Hutchings Strickland of Bossier City, La., a brother, Noah Hutchings of Oklahoma City, as well as many nephews and nieces. She was preceded in death by three great-grandchildren and brothers Reghal Hutchings of Lubbock and Harold Hutchings of Eufaula, Oklahoma.

Pallbearers will be Dennis Nelms, Scott Glaze, David Staggs, Jeremy Nelms, Jarrett Nelms and Sean Glaze. The family will receive friends at Waldo Funeral Chapel from 1 p.m. Thursday prior to the services. [resided Hugo, Oklahoma again from 1977 to 1985]