Gladys Anne Duggan Koontz
Gladys Anne Duggan Koontz passed away on April 17, 2019 from a long illness in a nursing home in League City, Texas at the age of 66 years. She is the middle of three daughters born to Jack O. Duggan and Mary Dixon Duggan. She was born in Ardmore, Oklahoma, but the family lived in Healdton, Oklahoma.
She is preceded in death by her parents (1991 and 2012), her younger sister Jackie Lois Duggan Barnes and her husband Greg Barnes (1987), all grandparents, and her husband Joseph Patrick Koontz (2008).
She is survived by her sister Shirley Duggan McGehearty and her husband Michael J. McGehearty, a nephew Kevin S. McGehearty, a niece Sarah B. McGehearty and her husband Lee Davis and a sister-in-law Shelly Koontz Leach. Also surviving are many cousins and a multitude of Rainbow and other friends.
While Gladys was in Corpus Christi public schools she and our family were in the Masonic organizations. We were in the Order of the Rainbow for Girls. She played the piano. She went to Del Mar Junior College in Corpus Christi, Texas. She majored in the card game Spades. After graduating from Texas A & M University she worked at UTMB for thirty years. She did several jobs such as teaching employees about insurance, scheduling outpatient clinics and being one of the team that changed the UTMB computer program to Epic. While her husband was alive they became travel agents so that they could travel often. They learned to scuba dive. They always had a packed bag in their vehicles just in case they decided to take a quick trip. After his death, Gladys learned to travel on her own but mostly with friends. She never liked to be alone so she would visit friends. She had a cheerful friendly disposition, a gift of gab and blues eyes that she put to good use. A friend introduced her to sailing. She liked sailing so much that she joined the sailing club. She could be generous with her time and money.
Thanks to Baywind Village Skilled Nursing and Rehab and to Faith Community Hospice for taking care of her.
Visitation will be at 1:00 P.M. followed by a memorial service at 2:00 P.M. on Saturday, May 18, 2019 at the Crowder Funeral Home, League City, Texas. Online condolences for the family can be left at www.crowderfuneralhome.com
I miss going to the movies with Gladys, having our girls’ night in having dinner and watching our NCIS night, traveling around, and just being friends. Gladys, I know you’re sailing wherever you are. Fair winds and favorable seas.
Gladys loved cats, and we shared that love with my sister Marianne. She would stop by the house with Joe just to visit and to spoil our cats. After Joe’s death she was a good friend to Marianne and even came to visit me at the convent in San Antonio. She always had great stories to tell and loved to watch Marianne’s cats and dog when she came to visit me. Gladys had a wonderful laugh and an infectious smile. I know you are visiting all your kitties in heaven, Gladys. Give them a hug for me. Praying for you and your family as they grieve your loss.
St. Marjie Filler
My deepest sympathies and prayers go out to Glady’s family and friends and sailing friends.
I met Glady’s on a sail with our sailing club. She brought such joy and laughter to each of us. She will be greatly missed and always live in our hearts.
May she RIP and sail in the heavens above
I believe her last trip was with me, when we went to Alaska. We went to Denali first and did the wilderness tour and saw both Denali peaks. Then we rode a train to Seward then got on a boat that took us to Vancouver. We had three great days there then flew home.
We met wonderful people and Gladys did not know a stranger. Iwill miss talking to her and going on the Paddlewheel trip she always wanted to take.
Gladys and I were friends and Rainbow sisters for over 50 years. We took many trips together including many between Houston and Corpus Christi, both visiting friends and family and organizing and attending King HS reunions for our class of 1971. She helped me move my parents from CC to assisted living in Houston – a benison for which I still owe her. Gladys, Denice Harris and I shared girls’ weekends several times a year for many years, and she will be greatly missed and remembered with love.