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IN LOVING MEMORY OF Gladys Ditto
Gladys
Ditto
September 5, 1923 – December 30, 2015
Gladys Ditto's Obituary
GLADYS DITTO
ELIDA — Gladys I. Ditto, 92, of rural Elida, went to meet her Lord and Savior at 6:32 AM Wednesday, December 30, 2015 at Primrose Retirement Home in Lima.
She was born September 5, 1923 in Allen County, a daughter of John Peter and Susanna Roberts Zuber, who are deceased. On April 21, 1946 she married Roger L. Ditto, who died August 23, 2006.
Gladys was a 1942 graduate of Spencerville High School and had worked at the former Kresge Store and the Lima Packing Company, both in Lima, the the Holtzapple Egg Company in Elida and later retired after 15 years as a cook at the Delphos Jefferson Middle School.
She attended the Lima Baptist Temple for many years and was active in its Ladies Missionary Society and faithfully attended the Horizon Group Sunday School class. She enjoyed gardening, canning and playing the piano.
Surviving are three children ; Jane A. (Daniel) Smith of Findlay; Janice K. Basinger of Bluffton and Jerry L. (Mary Jo) Ditto of Lima. Four grandchildren; Amy Basinger of Columbus; Shelley (Joel) Compton of Allen Park, MI.; Scott (Kate) Basinger of Pandora and Heidi (Sam) Wright of Delphos; 8 great grandchildren; Ethan, Hewitt, Nolyn and Quinn Wright, David Compton, Morgan, Natalie and Brooklynn Basinger; her brother-in-law; Ray Whetstone of Cridersville and her sister-in-law; Jayne Zuber of Elida.
She was preceded in death by an infant son Donald Eugene Ditto; 3 infant great grandchildren; 8 Siblings; Kenneth Zuber, Louise Miller, Kathryn Beamond, Francis Zuber, Helena Adams, Marie Whetstone, Margaret Lamb and Robert Zuber, Jr. and her son-in-law Marvin L. Basinger.
Funeral services will be 10:30 AM Monday in the Lima Baptist Temple with Rev. Gary Hohman officiating. Burial will follow in the Walnut Grove Cemetery in Delphos.
Friends may call from 2/4 and 6/8 PM Sunday at the Thomas E. Bayliff Funeral Home in Spencerville and after 9:30 AM Monday at the church.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Lima Baptist Temple or to its Missions program.
Condolences may be sent to tbayliff@woh.rr.com.
ELIDA — Gladys I. Ditto, 92, of rural Elida, went to meet her Lord and Savior at 6:32 AM Wednesday, December 30, 2015 at Primrose Retirement Home in Lima.
She was born September 5, 1923 in Allen County, a daughter of John Peter and Susanna Roberts Zuber, who are deceased. On April 21, 1946 she married Roger L. Ditto, who died August 23, 2006.
Gladys was a 1942 graduate of Spencerville High School and had worked at the former Kresge Store and the Lima Packing Company, both in Lima, the the Holtzapple Egg Company in Elida and later retired after 15 years as a cook at the Delphos Jefferson Middle School.
She attended the Lima Baptist Temple for many years and was active in its Ladies Missionary Society and faithfully attended the Horizon Group Sunday School class. She enjoyed gardening, canning and playing the piano.
Surviving are three children ; Jane A. (Daniel) Smith of Findlay; Janice K. Basinger of Bluffton and Jerry L. (Mary Jo) Ditto of Lima. Four grandchildren; Amy Basinger of Columbus; Shelley (Joel) Compton of Allen Park, MI.; Scott (Kate) Basinger of Pandora and Heidi (Sam) Wright of Delphos; 8 great grandchildren; Ethan, Hewitt, Nolyn and Quinn Wright, David Compton, Morgan, Natalie and Brooklynn Basinger; her brother-in-law; Ray Whetstone of Cridersville and her sister-in-law; Jayne Zuber of Elida.
She was preceded in death by an infant son Donald Eugene Ditto; 3 infant great grandchildren; 8 Siblings; Kenneth Zuber, Louise Miller, Kathryn Beamond, Francis Zuber, Helena Adams, Marie Whetstone, Margaret Lamb and Robert Zuber, Jr. and her son-in-law Marvin L. Basinger.
Funeral services will be 10:30 AM Monday in the Lima Baptist Temple with Rev. Gary Hohman officiating. Burial will follow in the Walnut Grove Cemetery in Delphos.
Friends may call from 2/4 and 6/8 PM Sunday at the Thomas E. Bayliff Funeral Home in Spencerville and after 9:30 AM Monday at the church.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Lima Baptist Temple or to its Missions program.
Condolences may be sent to tbayliff@woh.rr.com.
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