Obituary: Kumnick, Gladys Ruth
Age 104
Born in Chicago, IL to Fred and Sophie Kumnick on October 24, 1909, she joined her two-year-old brother, Frederick William.
The family moved to Washington in 1915, settling in the Arcadia Orchards east of Deer Park.
Her elementary schooling was in Arcadia’s one-room school and she graduated from Deer Park High School in 1926 with a class of 25.
That summer the family moved to Spokane and Gladys enrolled in the Northwest Business College.
Early in 1927 she was hired as a temporary typist by The Spokesman-Review and Spokane Daily Chronicle’s General Advertising Department, where she stayed for 47 years, retiring in 1974 as Office Manager.
Upon retirement she enjoyed participation in a number of volunteer programs, including tutoring in her neighborhood elementary school and editing a monthly newsletter for all the Lutheran churches in Spokane and the Valley for five years.
She also enjoyed extensive traveling, league bowling and gardening until she really retired in May 2011 to Riverview Terrace, where she passed away.
Gladys was preceded in death by her parents, and her brother and his wife.
She is survived by two nephews and their wives, James and Betsy Kumnick of North Carolina and David and Susan Kumnick of Jasper, GA; and one niece, Roberta and her husband, John Pocos of Avon, OH; also by ten grand-nieces and nephews and their families.
A celebration of Gladys’s life will be held in September at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 5810 S. Meadowlane Road, on Hiway 195, five miles south of the intersection of Hiways I-90 and 195.
Private graveside will be at Riverside Memorial Park, Spokane.