Dates
Gladys was born September 7, 1922 in Elbert, Texas in Throckmorton County to Lula Pearl and Francis Marion Whitmire.
She was the third of six children born in this family of five girls and one boy. She grew up on the farm at Lamesa, Dawson County, Texas and graduated from Sparenberg High School in 1940. She attended beauty school in San Angelo after high school.
She married Mervin Allen Tennyson on December 21, 1941, two weeks after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. They were married for 73 years at the time of her death. They lived in California during the War until Mervin was drafted into the Navy, and she moved back to Texas.
She was a homemaker and mother of three girls. Her husband was a Baptist minister and she helped him serve the Lord at churches in Texas and New Mexico. They retired to San Angelo in 1983. She was a member of Southland Baptist Church and the Friendship Sunday School Class.
She is survived by her husband Mervin Tennyson of San Angelo; daughters Brenda Burg and husband Henry of Stonewall, Texas and Marsha Dickens and husband Jerry of Huntsville, Texas; son-in-law Dudley Kidwell of Abilene, Texas; six grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, her daughter Judy Kidwell, and three sisters.
Family visitation is Tuesday, May 5, 2015 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Johnson's Funeral Home. Graveside service is at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, May 6, 2015 in Lawnhaven Memorial Gardens with Dr. Taylor Sandlin of Southland Baptist Church officiating.
Memorial may be made to Water for All International c/o Southland Baptist Church, 4300 Meadowcreek, San Angelo, TX 76904.
irection of Johnson's Funeral Home, San Angelo, TX.