Can you imagine the growing pains! All that changed with the Republic but the change was slow in distant provinces such as Shansi. So, from an early age, diligent mothers would tightly bind their daughters’ feet. Until the overthrow of the Ch’ing Dynasty in 1912, it was considered fashionable and a sign of upper class breeding for Chinese women to have small feet. Not that the British were able to give much protection to missionaries out in the interior.īefore the violence that erupted in Shansi province in 1937, with the three cornered war between the Japanese, the Nationalists and “the Reds” as Mao’s forces were called, Gladys was hired by the mandarin of the city of Yangcheng to be chief “Unbinder of womens’ feet”. This was a huge and somewhat dangerous step in the precarious 1930s, as she would no longer be under the protection of the British government. Please visit Gladys’ online memorial and sign her guestbook at settled in China, she became so identified with the people that she eventually put aside her British citizenship and became Chinese. 13, 2022, at Yates Funeral Home – Coeur d’Alene Chapel, 744 N. She also has 13 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.Ī memorial service will be held at 5:30 p.m. Gladys had many grandchildren: Patrick and Desie, Elmer, Christi, Victor all of Rathdrum Mark (deceased) and Marie of Post Falls, Matt (deceased), Amanda (deceased), Melissa, Payton, and Owen of Hayden. (Lots of giggles and gossip) if your ears were burning on Wednesday, it was because we were talking about you! When Gladys was no longer able to travel to the other homes, they still played Wednesday afternoons at Gladys’ home. When COVID closed the senior center, Gladys and three friends (Helen Johnson, Iris Buchanan, and Donna Kislig) continued to meet every Wednesday at each other’s homes and had lunch and played cards. They had many dinners and breakfasts together as well as talks on the phone and in person. She met Wade Tombs at the senior center where they played cards. Gladys continued to live in the home in Hayden until March 2016, when she moved to senior citizen living in Hayden. They camped on the Washington and Oregon coasts many trips to Jack and Max’s in Philipsburg, Montana, Jackpot and Elko, and David Oliver’s in Thompson Falls, Montana and Kalispell, Mont., where Mike was living at the time. ![]() They camped in the summer with friends as well as going to Sargents, the Cedars and the Beach House during the winter. As the boys grew and left home, Norm and Gladys joined the Post Falls Eagles Camper Club and helped start the Elks Camper Club. Norm coached and Gladys kept score and helped in the concession stand. The boys became interested in playing baseball. She then worked for Kelly Services for one year and then eight years for Transector as an assembler and purchasing agent. Gladys worked for Clare Pendar for 15 years as an assembler and line lead. Her large garden supplied vegetables for canning their beef and milk cows, as well as pigs, fed the family while Norm’s skill at hunting kept their freezer full. Stan spent 22 years in the Navy Pat owned Benson Meats for 14 years Mike cut meat and inspected meat in Alaska, the Virgin Islands and American Samoa – they now have two restaurants in American Samoa: Bill owns BMC. They had six boys: Richard and Peg (both deceased) of Post Falls Stan and Virginia of Coeur d’Alene Pat and Ellen of Rathdrum Mike and Lean of American Samoa Ken (deceased) and Sherry of Post Falls and Bill and Stephanie of Hayden and foster son, David and Penny Oliver of Arkansas. In 1952 Gladys married Norman Benson and spent their next eight years at their home on South 19th Street in Coeur d’Alene and 53 years in Hayden. She graduated in 1951 from Coeur d’Alene High School. They even got to play for the Clark House. In 1949, JoAnn Johnson and Gladys taught and played music for PA’s and dance clubs. ![]() ![]() She was a member of Camp Fire Girls and Girl Scouts. Gladys spent summers in Lake Coeur d’Alene or roller skating. She is preceded in death by her father and mother-in-law, Elmer and Esther Benson brother and sister-in-law, Carl and Ida Benson of Dalton Gardens June and Jerry Miguta of Coeur d’Alene Jack and Maxine Benson of Philipsburg, Montana Harold and Nelda Benson of Worley Marilyn Lenz of Post Falls, and Tom of Anchorage, Alaska. ![]() She and her four siblings, Russell Call (deceased), Lorraine (Charles Lovell) (deceased), Elaine (Norm Hockering) (deceased), and Dorothy (John Jessick) (deceased). In the spring of 1936, the Calls moved to beautiful Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. 7, 1933, in Grey Eagle, Minn., to William (Bill) Call and Marie (Barrett) Call Williams. Gladys Marie (Call) Benson, 89, passed away on Aug.
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