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The Ponca City News
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 

Gladys Lucille Waters

FAIRFAX — Gladys Lucille Waters, Fairfax resident, died Sunday evening, Sept. 12, 1999 at Hillcrest Medical Center in Tulsa. She was 81. 

The funeral will be held graveside at 2 pm Friday, Sept. 17, at the Fairfax Cemetery under the direction of Hunsaker-Wooten Funeral Home. The Rev. Jason Harris, pastor of Ralston First Baptist Church will officiate. 

Gladys Lucille (Donaldson) Waters was born July 19, 1918 in Kellyville, the daughter of Marion and Frances Alice (Tuttle) Donaldson. 

She was married to Raymond James Smith in 1934 in Sapulpa and later married Ralph James. Mrs. Waters was a homemaker and attended both the Baptist and the Assembly of God churches during her life. She was married to Theodore Waters on June 24, 1962. 

Survivors include two sons, Bobby Graves of Ripley and James Graves of Ralston; four daughters, Georgie Ruth Smith of Cushing, Frances Rube of Kellyville, JoAnn Young of Ralston and Nellie Louise Matthews of Berkley, Calif.; one sister, Bertha Jones of Kellyville; numerous grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by two husbands; her parents; three brothers, Homer, Buck and Herman Donaldson; and one sister Nellie Sams.

Source: The Ponca City News Archives [Dec 2001]