Gladys Langston

DEXTER, Mo. -- Gladys Langston, 91, of Dexter, Mo., died Monday, Aug. 26, 2002, at Mulberry Manor at Dexter.

She was born Sept. 17, 1910, at Bloomfield, Mo., daughter of Elisha B. and Edna Moore Lincoln. She and Loren E. Langston were married June 17, 1934, at St. Louis.

Langston was employed as a clerical worker for Office of Personal Management in St. Louis, Mo. She was a member of the First General Baptist Church in Dexter and a 50-year member of the Order of the Eastern Star No. 311.

Survivors include two nieces, Lena Lind of Dexter and Helen Jolly of Fisk, Mo.; three nephews, Samuel Lincoln of Oakwood, Ga., Robert Lincoln of Cape Girardeau, and Russell Graves of Dexter.

She was preceded in death by her husband; her parents; four brothers and two sisters.

Friends may call at Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter from 5 to 8 p.m., today. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Kenneth Biggs will officiate, with burial in the Dexter Cemetery.