1926
Gloria
2014
Gloria Fidelas Swepston
January 15, 1926 — December 19, 2014
Gloria Fidelas Swepston
January 15, 1926 - December 19, 2014
Gloria Fidelas Swepston, 88, of Amarillo died on Friday, December 19, 2014. Memorial Services will be at 10:00 am, Tuesday, December 23, 2014 at LaGrone Blackburn Shaw Coulter Road Chapel with Sherman Eastland, Chaplain of Gentiva Hospice officiating. Arrangements are LaGrone Blackburn Shaw Funeral Directors, 8310 S. Coulter.
Gloria Swepston, was born on January 15, 1926 in Albuquerque, NM to Thomas and Rosetta Brazil. Gloria lived in Alaska when it was still a territory and also lived Cloudcroft, NM where her family raised angora goats. She enjoyed knitting and quilting. Gloria was a nurse's aid and a homemaker later in her life.
She was preceded in death by her parents; two husbands, Allie Lee Otto, Jr. and John P. Swepston; two daughters, Patricia Otto and Doris Louise Otto Sirmon McLemore; three sisters, Harriet Lawrence, Faye Hoffman and Ray Dean Terry; a brother, Herbert Brazil and a half brother Clyde Brazil.
She is survived by five sons, Stanley Ray Otto and wife Mary, Jerry Don Otto and wife Shirley, Thomas Lee Otto and wife Donna, James Ralph Otto and wife Theresa, and Mark Dennis Otto and a daughter Linda Sue Otto Mixon and husband Fred; twenty grandchildren and over thirty great grandchildren.
January 15, 1926 - December 19, 2014
Gloria Fidelas Swepston, 88, of Amarillo died on Friday, December 19, 2014. Memorial Services will be at 10:00 am, Tuesday, December 23, 2014 at LaGrone Blackburn Shaw Coulter Road Chapel with Sherman Eastland, Chaplain of Gentiva Hospice officiating. Arrangements are LaGrone Blackburn Shaw Funeral Directors, 8310 S. Coulter.
Gloria Swepston, was born on January 15, 1926 in Albuquerque, NM to Thomas and Rosetta Brazil. Gloria lived in Alaska when it was still a territory and also lived Cloudcroft, NM where her family raised angora goats. She enjoyed knitting and quilting. Gloria was a nurse's aid and a homemaker later in her life.
She was preceded in death by her parents; two husbands, Allie Lee Otto, Jr. and John P. Swepston; two daughters, Patricia Otto and Doris Louise Otto Sirmon McLemore; three sisters, Harriet Lawrence, Faye Hoffman and Ray Dean Terry; a brother, Herbert Brazil and a half brother Clyde Brazil.
She is survived by five sons, Stanley Ray Otto and wife Mary, Jerry Don Otto and wife Shirley, Thomas Lee Otto and wife Donna, James Ralph Otto and wife Theresa, and Mark Dennis Otto and a daughter Linda Sue Otto Mixon and husband Fred; twenty grandchildren and over thirty great grandchildren.
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