Gloria M. Cranford

Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, February 10, 2021, at Sunset Memorial Park Funeral Home for Gloria M. Cranford, 83, who passed away to be with our Lord and Savior, February 2, 2021. Visitation and viewing will begin February 10th at 10:00am, and the services will begin at 11:00am.

Pastor Donald Valenta of Live Oak First Baptist Church will lead the services.

Cremation, per her wishes, and burial services at Fort Sam cemetery, will be held privately at a later date. She’ll be buried together with her husband of 40+ years, Clifton Cranford, who preceded her in death.

A life long native of San Antonio, Gloria M. Cranford was born on March 21, 1937 to the late Felicitas P. Hernandez and Marcelino Mendez. She enjoyed a career in Civil Service at the local military bases, as librarian, clerical typist, and secretary, and retired early at the age of 55. She enjoyed raising three children, occasional camping weekends to the beach or Garner State Park, gardening, taking care of her home, and reading her bible. Gloria was close to her Church community at Live Oak First Baptist Church, and enjoyed joining their fellowship events. Gloria loved her family and friends dearly, was a loving wife to Clifton, and a wonderful Mother, Grandmother, and Great Grandmother. She’ll be dearly missed by all as she joins her loved ones that preceded her into heaven.

Gloria is survived by her two daughters, Susan M. Lyons and Linda A. Powell; son John A. Senger (wife Wanda Senger); brother Marshall P. Mendez (wife Norma Mendez); sister Angelita R. Mendez; six grandchildren, SueNah Lyons-Schulman (husband Michael Schulman), Kristen Lyons-Worthy (husband Aaron Worthy), Joshua Lyons, Caitlin Senger-Gavurnik (husband Sebastian Gavurnik), Hailey Senger, Shannon Baker; and great-grandchildren, Felis Worthy, Sasha Schulman, Flora Schulman, and Amaya Munoz.

Gloria was preceded in death by her husband and parents.

Services will be live-streamed via Facebook for those that prefer to join remotely.

In-person attendees must wear masks and observe proper social distancing in consideration of the health interests of others attending.