Story based on Thursday, June 22, 1967, Pullman Herald
article
Funeral rites Thursday for Janet Riley Gladish, wife of
Oscar Gladish, long-time Pullman High principal
Funeral services for Janet Riley Gladish, wife of the former
long-time principal of Pullman High School will be conducted at 10 a.m. Thursday,
June 22.
Mrs. Gladish,. 66, died Monday after being ill with cancer.
Born Nov. 8, 1900, in Lebanon, Ohio, she married Oscar E.
Gladish in 1925 at McMinnville, Oregon.
The couple came to Pullman in 1929, when Mr. Gladish became
high school principal, a post he filled until his retirement in in 1963. He
survives his wife at the 1812 Duncan Lane family home.
A member of the Palouse Weaving Guild and former past
president of the group, Mrs. Gladish was an extensive weaver of cloth, from
which she made garments, her husband said, “just for the pleasure of doing it.”
For many years she operated a children’s nursery in her
home, usually having more offers to care for children than she could take care
of.
Survivors besides her husband include a daughter, Mrs. Ed
Porter of Opportunity; three sons, Wendell of Diamond Bar, Calif., Richard of
Savage, Minn., and Charles of San Jose, Calif.
A sister, Mrs. Halsey Carsten of West Millford, N.J; and
four brothers, Kenneth Riley of Corvallis, Ore., Leonard W. Riley of Glide,
Ore., Norman Riley of Newberg, Ore., and Frances Riley of McMinnville.
The family suggests remembrances in the form of
contributions to Pullman Memorial Hospital.
The funeral will be at Kimball Funeral Home, Pullman. Music
will be by the Pullman High School Treble Triad, directed by Charles Swisher,
with Mrs. Orit W. Richard the accompanist.
Active and honorary pallbearers will comprise Pullman High
School faculty members there while Mr. Gladish served as principal.
Active pallbearers include C. H. Hill, Donald C. Holmes,
Gerald R. McFaul, C. W. Pierson, Dana L. Cleveland and George D. Bell.
Honorary pallbearers will be Raymond H. Hobbs, Roger W.
Morris, Guy C. Parkman, Peter J. Smith, John Odgen, Merle R. Cramer, Victor W.
Moore, James Wagner, Michael Rendish and Marcus Mitchell.
Burial will be in Pullman Cemetery.
