Gladys Egan Totten Guertin

Gladys Egan Totten Guertin, age 94, a former resident of Little Rock, Ark., died July 2, 2011, in the Jewish Retirement and Health Care Senior Assisted Living Facility in Tulsa, Okla., where she had lived since suffering a stroke in February 2011. She was born Oct. 17, 1916 in Morrilton, Conway County, Ark., the youngest daughter and fourth child of Percy Norman and Gladys Mary (Egan) Totten. She was married to Kenneth Warren Guertin of Sibley, Iowa, at the home of her sister, Catherine Suffridge, in Perryville, Ark., on April 25, 1943 just prior to his deployment to England in preparation for the D-Day Invasion. He died Nov. 22, 1976 in Little Rock. She is survived by one son, Kenneth Warren Guertin Jr., and daughter-in-law Carol of Tulsa, Okla.; five grandchildren, Jennifer Goldman of Enid, Okla., Dr. Julie Sullivan of Kansas City, Mo., Joe Guertin of Tulsa, and Keith and Kevin Guertin of Kansas City, Mo. She has three great-grandchildren, Jared and Mira Ann Goldman of Enid and Kathleen Sullivan of Kansas City. Other survivors include four nephews: Dr. Norman Totten Jr. of Newton, Mass., Dr. Buford Suffridge Jr. of North Little Rock, Ark., Dr. Jim Fulp of Semora, N.C., and George Fulp of Madison, N.C.; and two nieces, Catherine "Katy" Suffridge Warren of Roland, Ark.; and Helen Totten McClard of Bismarck, Ark. In addition to her husband she was preceded in death by her brother, Frank Norman Totten of Benton and two sisters, Catherine Helen Totten Suffridge of Perryville, Ark., and Patricia Norma Totten Fulp of Stoneville, N.C.. Gladys graduated from Morrilton High School in 1934 and was the sole surviving member of that class. She worked for several years in her brother's variety stores in Morrilton and later in Carlisle. She attended Draughon's School of Business in Little Rock and following graduation from Draughon's held jobs with the Arkansas Department of Health in Little Rock and as secretary to the Perry County School Supervisor in Perryville. After raising her son she was a long time employee of the Arkansas Employment Security Department in Little Rock. Gladys was a former member of the Geyer Springs Methodist Church and for the past 50 plus years a faithful member of the Perryville United Methodist Church. Her burial will be with her husband in the National Cemetery in Little Rock, Arkansas.