Gladys M. Gyger
Published January 18, 2006
Gladys Marie Teeling Gyger died Jan. 18 on Bainbridge Island. She was 101, and a survivor of two cancers for more than 20 years.
She was born to George and Blanche Currie on Aug. 17, 1904 in Chicago, Ill. She was adopted as a baby by George and Laura Montague and came to Washington in 1905.
She lived in Rhyolite, Nev., and Tonopah, Nev., for a few years before returning to Kingston when she was 7 years old.
She married James Teeling in 1924 and lived on a farm by George’s Corner.
They had six children: Margaret Jeanne Smith of Bainbridge Island, Beverly (Victor) Clough of Poulsbo, Laura Lee Johnson of Silverdale, Robert (Marian) Teeling of Palmer, Alaska, Dorothy Teeling of Seattle and son James Teeling, who died in 1951.
Her husband died in 1954. She married Lew Hopkins in 1955 and he died in 1958; she then married Irvin Gyger in 1960, and he died in 1993. Survivors include her five children, 16 grandchildren, 33 great-grandchildren and 32 great-great grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Jan. 29 at Eagle Harbor Congregational Church on Bainbridge Island. Memorials may be sent to a favorite charity.