Gladys Leola Eileen Pavo Penny (née Jones) passed away April 29, 2024 from the effects of a stroke. She enjoyed a long life full of family, learning, community service, travel, quilting and love of reading.
Gladys was born July 22, 1934 in Riverhurst, SK to Jean (McLaughlin) Jones and James Cecil Jones. Later in life, she would tell people that she grew up on a ranch under Lake Diefenbaker, because the Lazy J Bar Ranch on the banks of the South Saskatchewan River was expropriated for the construction of the Gardiner Dam. She went on to become an elementary school teacher and raised a family in the Birsay area, returning to the University of Saskatchewan to complete a BA in 1984 and a Master of Divinity from St. Andrew’s College in 1987. As an ordained United Church minister, Gladys served pastoral charges in Lethbridge, Carnduff/Glen Ewen, Fillmore/Osage and Abernethy/Lemberg, retiring in 2000. In that year, she remarried, to Abernethy farmer Kenneth Penny. Together they enjoyed life on the farm and then in Regina.
Gladys was predeceased by her parents; sister Marlene and brother Robert. She is survived by husband Ken; children: Adriane (Marc Verbrugge), Michael (Olivia Palmer) and Keith (Laura Anholt); grandchildren: Brodie, Taylor, Spencer, Noah, Nancy (Ryan Klatt), Nathan (Kyla) and Amelia; brother Doug (Judy) and numerous nieces, nephews, grand-nieces and grand-nephews. Remarriage into the Penny clan added to her family and she leaves behind Chad (Tania), Carmen (Brad White) and Craig (Leanne) and their children and siblings-in-law Jack (Jackie), Ray (Betty) and Marj (Larry Middleton).
Many thanks to loving friends and to the skilled and caring staff of Victoria Park Care Community, Wascana Rehab, and the Regina General and Pasqua hospitals.
The funeral service took place in Broadway United Church, 105 Broadway Avenue, Regina, Saskatchewan on Saturday, May 11, 2024 at 1:00 p.m. Interment followed in the Abernethy Cemetery.
The service was livestreamed with the church's zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/268763601?pwd=V2xOR1BPKzZDZ2ZTMi9DVjRTZEptdz09
Meeting ID: 268 763 601
Passcode: 862735
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