Gladys M. Hutson

Gladys M. (Baker) Hutson was born in Miami County, Kansas to John Anna Cornelius and died at the age of 93 on January 12, 2009.

Gladys moved to Topeka in 1929 and graduated from Topeka High School in 1933. In 1937 she married Samuel P. Baker. They had three daughters. He died in 1970. She retired after 24 years as secretary at State Street Elementary School in Topeka. In 1977, Gladys married Marvin S. Hutson and moved to the Kansas City area, living in Prairie Village, Overland Park and finally at Lakeview Village in Lenexa in 1993. Marvin died in 1995.

She is survived by her daughters and sons-in-law, Linda and Dwight Vogel of Claremont, California, Helen Bliege (and the late Charles Bliege) of Overland Park, Kansas and Kathy and Jim Thornburg of Columbia, Missouri; step-son and daughter-in-law, Harold and Bev Hutson of Kissemmee, FL; and step-daughter, Nancy Bridge of Overland Park, Kansas. Gladys also had 12 grandchildren, 22 great grandchildren and four great great grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be given to Cross-Line Community Outreach, 736 Shawnee Ave., Kansas City, Kansas 66105, which serves the poor and homeless in the Greater Kansas city area.

Services

A celebration of Gladys' life will be Tuesday, January 20 at 1:30 p.m. at Lakeview Village (9100 Park in Lenexa) in the Rose Garden Room (Heritage Place).