Gladys Jean Stevens

She was involved for many years in the Rancho Bernardo Community Presbyterian Church where she sang in the Church Choir. She loved listening to classical music and playing golf or bridge with her friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents David and Margaret “Daisy” Beattie as well as 4 siblings, David, Elizabeth, William “Norman” and Margaret. She was also preceded in death by her husband Robert E. Stevens and son Scott F. Stevens. She is survived by her daughter Gail Thompson and son-in-law Michael Thompson, her daughter Ellen Phillips and son-in-law William Phillips and grandchildren Ian Thompson, Megan Thompson, Corey Stevens and Erin Stevens.

As part of her memorial she wanted to share the poem “To Those I Love” by Isla Paschal Richardson:

If I should ever leave you, whom I love, to go along the Silent Way, grieve not, nor speak of me with tears, but laugh and talk of me as if I were beside you there. (I’d come I’d come could I but find a way! But would not tears and grief be barriers?) And when you hear a song or see a bird I love please do not let the thought of me be sad…for I am loving you just as I always have. You were so good to me! There are so many things I wanted still to do. So many things to say to you. Remember that I did not fear…it was just leaving you that was hard to face. We cannot see beyond but this I know: I love you so…it was Heaven here with you!

The family would like to thank Leslie Corbin (Kurtz) for living with and caring for our mother in her home for several years before Gladys moved to a residential care facility. We would also like to thank Weaver’s Twin Oaks Villa for the care and compassion they showed our mom in her final days.

Gladys will be interred alongside her husband Robert in the Memorial Garden at the Rancho Bernardo Presbyterian Church at a date yet to be determined.