Gladys Johnson Lindsley passed away peacefully July 16, 2006, six days shy of her 90th birthday. She was born Gladys Carolyn Johnson on July 22, 1916 to Anna and Ole Johnson. She was raised on Puget Sound and along the Columbia River in Cathlamet. Her family moved to Oak Harbor and Bellingham, where Gladys graduated from Oak Harbor High School in 1934 and later from Bellingham Business College.

She began as an usher and ended up managing three of the five movie theaters in Bellingham in the late 1930s. Bob Lindsley courted here and won her heart and they married August 18, 1940. They traveled around the country as newlyweds, from Navy base to Navy base, settling after the war in Kirkland in 1946. Gladys was a homemaker and worked part-time as a bookkeeper and secretary for various Kirkland businesses. She loved to travel and to dance; she and Bob danced all over the world and made lifelong friends wherever they went. They were lovingly married for 63 years until Bob’s death in 2003.

Gladys was a generous, strong and loving woman whose family meant the world to her. She is survived by her daughter Robyn Carlisle, son-in-law Len Fellez, grandchildren Shannon Carlisle, Christopher Carlisle-Kovacs, Erin Fellez and Lenny Fellez, and four great grandchildren with the fifth due in September in Budapest, Hungary. She is also survived by her sister, Hazel Olsen of Bellingham, and her brother, Harold Johnson of Oak Harbor, and many nieces, nephews and their families.

At her request there will be no services. Remembrances may be made in her name to Community Services for the Blind, 206-525-5556, 9709 3rd Ave. NE No. 100, Seattle WA 98115-202. Her family thanks the staff and residents of Northgate Plaza Retirement Home where she and Bob received many years of loving care and friendship.