Gladys Louise Bond

Marietta Monitor

March 5, 1993, page 4 Courtesy of Ray and Elreeta Weathers

Submitted by: Martha N. Reddout

Mrs. Bond was born November 22, 1926, in White Rose, and died February 18, 1993, in an Ardmore hospital. She was the daughter of Steve J. and Doris Sanders Dedek.

A resident of Thackerville most of her life, she worked for the Tourist Information Center and Bomber-Bait in Gainesville for 30 years. She married Art Bond March 29, 1945, in Marietta. Mrs. Bond was a member of the First Baptist Church of Thackerville.

Survivors include a son, Mike Bond of Thackerville; three daughters, Donna Wilson, Ann Craft, and Sue Reed of Thackerville; five brothers, Clent Dedek of Edmond, Kenzie Dedek of Corvallis, Oregon, Michael Frank Dedek of Dallas, Texas, Steve Dedek, Jr., of Gainesville, and David Dedek of Oklahoma City; four sisters, Helen Long of Marietta, Linda Morgan of Irving, Texas, and Barbara Gregg and Burnedia Nammingo of Dallas; six grandchildren and 10 great-grand-children.

Mrs. Bond was preceded in death by her husband on June 28, 1986; a son, Art Bond, Jr.; and a brother, Henry Dedek.

Interment was in Lakeview Cemetery under the direction of the Anderson-Kennedy Funeral Home. Serving as pallbearers were Elvis Monkres, Wesley Liddell, Jr., Luke Langston, Bill Fussell, Sr., Merle Flanagan, Orvil Brown, Dean Pearman, and Anthony Reed.