Gwendolyn Harris Worthy-Goodspeed

On August 28, 1957, Gwendolyn Harris Worthy was born to Ollie Mae and Wheeler Worthy. ( who both have preceded her in death,)m in Redwood City, California at Sequoia Hospital. The family had moved from Louisville, Mississippi in 1955, two years prior to Gwendolyn's birth, to the San Francisco Bay in Redwood City, California. The family lived in Redwood City for a year and then moved to East Palo Alto, California in the Bay area. Gwendolyn was born when the family was living in East Palo Alto. The family moved back to Redwood City in 1961.

Gwendolyn, started school in 1962, attending Washington Elementary, Hoover Elementary and Jr. High School and Sequoia High School. In January of 1973, Gwendolyn gave birth to a baby boy and named him, Shelton. After the birth of her son, Gwendolyn did not go back to school. She was very young at the time and still living at home with her mother. She was so young, that her mother and other family members, band together to help her raise her son.

In 1978, Gwendolyn went to work for Silter Semi-Conductor company in Redwood City, where she worked until the company moved its business to Salem, Oregon in 1980. She did not move with the company, but remained in Redwood City. Not long after that, she started working for her brother, Harry as an Interior Decorator. She loved doing that type of work and it was a real challenge to make things look pretty. She worked with her brother Harry for several years.

In 1992, Gwendolyn and her husband, Charles, moved to Portland, Oregon. Gwendolyn wanted to get closer to relatives Lee Grover Collins and wife Karen who had moved to Portland from the Bay area in 1987. She and Charles lived with her brother Lee and wife Karen for a year. After that, they started managing apartment buildings in the North Portland area. Gwendolyn and Charles did quite well for themselves. Charles and Gwendolyn were together for 29 years, there was a lot of love between those two.

Gwendolyn Harris Worthy, was called home on October 16, 2014 at the age of 57. Gwendolyn loved her family very much as we loved her very much. She lives in our hearts and minds forever more. Gwendolyn was preceded in death by her parents, brother Walter Collins in 1997 and brother Harry Worthy in 2007. Gwendolyn is survived by her son, Shelton Worthy of Portland, Oregon, brothers, Lee Grover and wife Karen Collins of Portland, Oregon, George and wife Michelle Collins of Fremont, California, Perry and wife Georgia Collins of Meridian, Mississippi, sister, Shirley Edwards of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and a host of nieces and nephews and friends all around the country.

For Gwendolyn

" The time comes when those whom we have loved the longest an the best will travel far ahead into a place of joy and rest and we must walk a lonely path through the shadows for a while without a certain kindred voice, a dear familiar smile. Yet each day brings us nearer to horizons, yet unknown and even when the way is dark, we never walk alone. For memories, travel with us toward the happy destination where we will join our loved ones in eternal celebration."

~K. Collins~

Arrangements under the direction of Caldwell's, Hennessey, Goetsch & McGee Funeral Home, Portland, OR.