Colleen June Gutting

She spent a wonderful childhood in Hartley, surrounded by family and a multitude of cousins. After World War II broke out, she moved at fifteen years old to Los Angeles, California with her parents, brother, aunt and uncle and two cousins. Her parents and uncle went to work in the defense plants located nearby.

She contracted polio shortly after moving here and spent weeks in a hospital in Los Angeles. After she recovered, she returned to Hartley for a semester of school and then came back to Los Angeles to attend LA High. She made several lifelong friends during her school years.

After graduating in 1944, she went to work for the government in the rationing department.

She met her husband of 71 years, Jack Gutting, shortly after the war ended and married him on December 16, 1947. They had four children, Pamela Gutting Norton, Michael Gutting, Jack Gutting and Jill Gutting Jackson. They had eight grandchildren, Steven, Sheri, Jacquelyn, Wendy, Michelle, Raynee, Peter and JT. They also had nine great-grandchildren and twelve great great grandchildren.

She worked for 30 years at Jorgensen Steel and she loved her job and made many long-time friends there.

After raising the children, Jack and Colleen moved from Long Beach to Bakersfield and then to Sun Lakes in Banning where they moved next door to their daughter Pam. Colleen was visited frequently by her other children and her 29 grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great grandchildren.

She loved golfing, playing bunco, and socializing with her friends.

She was very much loved by her family and friends and the matriarch of our family will be greatly missed.

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