Cowlitz-Grays Harbor County WA Archives Obituaries.....Glading, Ralph Edmond  February 19, 2006
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Published in The Daily News on 2/22/2006.
 	 	
Ralph Edmond Glading, 93, who had lived on the Harbor since 1996, died Sunday, 
Feb. 19, 2006, at Pacific Care Center in Hoquiam. 

He was born March 16, 1912 in Lorain, Ohio to Carl and Anna (Strubel) Glading. 
He graduated from Lorain High School and Oberlin College, then received a 
doctorate of paper technology from the Institute of Paper Chemistry in 
Appleton, Wis. He was hired by the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company in 
Luke, Maryland. In early 1944 he went to work for A. B. Dick Company in 
Chicago, Ill. He had articles published in Chemical Abstracts magazine. In 1962 
he was hired by Weyerhaeuser in Longview to work in their research and 
development department. He retired from Weyco in 1975 and continued to work as 
a consultant for them for several years. 

On Dec. 18, 1939 he and Thelma Mae Redden eloped in Russel, Ky. 

In the mid 1950s they organized the Little Squares square dance club and Gay 
Ginghams, a round dance group in the Chicago area. After moving to Washington, 
they took up rock hounding, playing bridge, ballroom dancing and traveling with 
friends. Ralph continued to call and teach square dancing, inviting many of his 
children's friends over for lessons in do-si-doing and "swing your partner." To 
this day, many of the "younger folks" remember learning to dance to "Blame it 
on the Bossa Nova" in the Glading's basement. 

Ralph and Thelma were active members of the Longview Community Church for over 
30 years, Ralph serving as treasurer for much of that time. 

After Thelma died in 1991, Ralph stayed on in the family home in Longview for 
another five years. In 1996 he moved to Channel Point in Hoquiam to be closer 
to his daughter and her family. He enjoyed sharing his love of reading and was 
often found in the parlor at Channel Point reading to a room full of folks. 

Ralph's family is very grateful to the staff at Channel Point, Westhaven Villa 
and Pacific Care Center for the excellent care and loving kindness they showed 
him. 

He is survived by his son, Keith and his wife Kathy of Indianapolis, Ind., his 
daughter Karen Barkstrom and her husband Mike of Aberdeen, and grandchildren, 
Tara Walls of Black Diamond, Tyler Barkstrom of Everett and Tami Barkstrom of 
Aberdeen. 

The family will hold a private service. 

Friends and family may sign the on-line guest register at 
www.colemanmortuary.net 

Arrangements are by Coleman Mortuary of Hoquiam 

Memorials are suggested to the Longview Community Church or a local animal 
shelter. 

	


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