Gloria L. Erikson

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 7, at Rancho Bernardo Community Presbyterian Church in Rancho Bernardo. Private entombment will be at El Camino Memorial Park in San Diego. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to Rancho Bernardo Community Presbyterian Church or the Scripps Cancer Center at Scripps Health Foundation. El Camino Memorial Park and Mortuaries in San Diego is in charge of arrangements.

Gloria was born on June 21, 1924, to Edwin and Hazel Cornish, in Boonville, Mo. When she was a small child, her parents moved to Oklahoma City, Okla., where she was raised and attended school.

In 1944, she met and married Thomas Joseph Fieldman, in Oklahoma City. The couple subsequently moved to Chicago, Ill., where they had their first daughter, Johanna, in 1950. Their second daughter, Anita, was born in 1953. Gloria was a homemaker until her children entered school, when she became church secretary at Faith United Church of Christ in Chicago. She became Assistant to the Pastor at the church and continued to serve in that position following its merger with Pilgrim United Church in Oak Lawn, Ill. When she retired in 1980, the unified Pilgrim Faith Church recognized her for “20 years of friendship, caring, and devoted service.”

After Gloria retired from the church, she and her husband Thomas moved to Rancho Bernardo, San Diego, Calif. In late 1980, Thomas died.

In 1982, Gloria married Erik G. Erikson in San Diego, where they resided. In San Diego, Gloria was a volunteer at Scripps Hospital radiation oncology unit. There she was known as “the cookie lady” due to her prodigious gifts of baked goods given to patients and their families. She was also an active member of Rancho Bernardo Presbyterian Community Church, where she was a deacon and a member of The Pew Angels.

Her hobbies included sewing, knitting, needlework, cooking, baking, and reading. She was known as an accomplished hostess, and she was an avid fan of the San Diego Chargers and the San Diego Padres. Above all, she enjoyed spending time with her friends and family.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her sister, Shirley (Cornish) Curry; her first husband, Thomas Fieldman; her second husband, Erik Erikson; and her brother-in-law, John Crites.

Gloria is survived by her sister, Edwina (Cornish) Crites of Irvine, Calif.; her brother-in-law, Henry “Bud” Curry of Tucker, Ga.; her children, Johanna (Fieldman) Kruckeberg and husband Thomas of Coralville, Iowa, and Anita Fieldman of Mill Valley, Calif.; her grandchildren, Amanda Brown and husband Matthew Post of Mill Valley, Calif., Christopher Kruckeberg and wife Lynell of Red Lodge, Mont., and Kurt Kruckeberg and husband David Morgan of Seattle, Wash.; and her great-grandchildren, Colin Post and Alison Post of Mill Valley, Calif.