Gloria Neighbors, 87
Gloria Neighbors, 87, of Trenton died on Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Highland.
Visitation will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. on Sunday April 10 at Moss Funeral Home in Trenton and from 9 to 10 a.m. on Monday, April 11 at Highland Community Church in Highland. A funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. on Monday April 11 at Highland Community Church in Highland, with the Rev. Larry Wise, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Trenton Cemetery. The St. Joseph’s Hospital Auxiliary will have an honor guard at her funeral service.
She was born on Oct. 2, 1928 in Tilden, Ill., to Hilton and Alice (Coke) Stone. She married Bobby Neighbors on May 20, 1951 in Tilden, Ill., and he preceded her in death on May 3, 2008.
Mrs. Neighbors taught home economics. She retired from Wesclin Grade School in Trenton. She had previously taught at New Athens High School, Cahokia Junior High School and O’Fallon Township High School.
She was a pastor’s wife in Trenton, at First Baptist Church. She was also a member of the Woman’s Missionary Society and church choir in Trenton.
She was a homemaker, too, and enjoyed making homemade bread, sewing, reading, St. Louis Cardinals baseball and Wesclin High School baseball.
She was a member of the Highland Community Church in Highland, the Retired Teachers Association, and the St. Joseph’s Hospital Auxiliary in Breese.
She is survived by sons, Dr. David (Jan) Neighbors of Trenton and James (Terri) Neighbors of Burke, Va.; grandchildren, Matthew (Teal) Neighbors, Kelly (Nathan) Johnson, Beth Neighbors and LeeAnne Neighbors; a great-grandson, Elliot Johnson; a sister, Pauline Close of Caseyville; brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, Earl (Alicia) Neighbors of St. Louis, Mo., Joyce (Dwight) Saffel of Plano, Texas, and Pat Neighbors of St. Libory.
She was also preceded in death by her parents; a brother, Hilton Francis Stone, and his wife, Lillian; and brothers-in-law, Gary Neighbors and Edward Neighbors.
Memorials can be made Trenton Library.
This story was originally published April 7, 2016 at 8:36 AM with the headline "Gloria Neighbors, 87."