In Memoriam
Santa Clara Funeral Home
In Memory of
GLADYS MAE HANSON
BORN
November 9, 1898
North Dakota
DEPARTED THIS LIFE
April 20, 1978
San Jose, California
MEMORIAL SERVICES HELD
Friday
April 21, 1978 at 3:p.m.
Santa Clara Funeral Home
OFFICIATING
Virginia Field, C.S.
PRIVATE INURNMENT
This is my grandmother Lucy Mary Huyck Baker's younger sister. She died about 2 days before I was hoping to see her. I was at school in Utah and was headed to California for spring break and there was some delay in my leaving and she died while I was traveling. I missed seeing her one last time and attending her funeral.
My Aunt Gladys was very special to me. She was like her older sister, my grandmother, in that she was always kind and supportive in what ever you did. I loved her very much, but it was her time to go. I was told she died the night before the doctors were going to put her on all kinds of life support. In 1978 the doctors still had not embraced the concept of right to die with dignity and they wanted to save her. She and her family knew there was no "saving her" they knew her cancer had progressed to far. She was ready to die, she lived a full life, raised 2 children, watched 3 grandchildren grow and even saw her first great-grandchild be born. I am now glad the doctors now have learned to let people die when it is their time.
I love you Aunt Gladys.
