Gladene Hartzog

Her only sibling was a younger brother, C. L. Farmer, who lived his entire life in Pampa, Texas, before preceding her in death. Gladene was proud to have graduated from Pampa High School in the Class of 1944. She found work as a bank teller after graduation. Her favorite customer was a personable gentleman named Harry Hartzog who kept telling her about one of his younger brothers. After WW ll ended, and the boys came home, Harry did arrange for her to meet this younger brother.

She wanted a man who was handsome and who loved to travel. She found that perfect man, and the love of her life, in the younger brother: Carl Hartzog. They married in June of 1946 at first Baptist Church in Amarillo and first lived in Pampa where Carl worked in the oil fields. They first moved to Fort Worth, where Carl found work as an Aircraft Mechanic at Convair, in 1946 while Gladene was carrying her first of two children. In the following years Gladene, and Carl, began the travelling adventures that both loved. They travelled, and lived, in numerous places in California, Colorado and at several places in Amarillo. The family, along with the family of the older brother, Harry, first moved to Alaska in 1961, in their most adventurous move yet. After Alaska, the family moved to San Antonio where Carl continued to advance in appliance and equipment sales. Gladene devoted herself to being a home maker, while always being ready to pack for the next great adventure. These adventures included many trips, and family vacations, to Mexico, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and the Dominican Republic. During the 1980s, in the trip of a lifetime, Carl and Gladene, flew around the world and had the certificates to prove their circumnavigation! After discovering the joys of RV Travel, Carl and Gladene, and their beloved Yorkie named Trixie, travelled thousands of miles across the US, the Great Southwest, making several trips back to Alaska to visit family, and the hundreds of friends they met in these travels. Their usual companions on many of these travel-fishing trips were Carl's brother Lew, and his wife Sally. They caught, smoked, and canned, many trout from their favorite spot: Navajo Lake in NW New Mexico. From Texas up to South Dakota, or across New Mexico to California and on to Alaska, there were few areas where these two adventurers did not have friends who'd welcome another visit. Of all the places they lived, their longest, and most loved residence, was their home of more than 20 years in Fort Worth. Gladene nursed Carl through several cardiac surgeries there, and, in the last few years, Carl provided most all of her care and meals. Their mutually deep devotion to the other's health, and happiness, during those years was an inspiration to all who knew them. Her warm smile, and loving presence, will be greatly missed by her husband of 69 years, Carl Hartzog, her son Calvin, of Houston, and her daughter Dawn Longoria, of Santa Rosa, California, three grandchildren and one great granddaughter. A memorial Service will be held at Shannon Rose Hill Funeral Chapel on November 5, 2015 at 2:00 pm.