Gloria Viola Gentry

GLORIA VIOLA PRICE GENTRY WAS BORN JULY 27, 1940, IN NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE TO THE LATE REVERAND FELTON PRICE AND MRS. MATTIE PRICE. SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HER PARENTS, HER HUSBAND JOHN GENTRY JR. HER BROTHER JAMES WALKER JR AND HER SISTER GWENDOLYN PRICE GENTRY, GRANDAUGHTER DESIRAE GRANT.

SHE ACCEPTED CHRIST AT AN EARLY AGE AND WAS BAPTIZED AT FOURTEEN AVENUE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH UNDER THE PASTORATE OF HER FATHER, REVEREND FELTON PRICE. SHE SUNG IN THE CHIOR.

LATER IN LIFE SHE JOINED MT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF BISHOP JOSEPH WARREN WALKER III. SHE SERVED ON THE USHER MINISTRY OVER 20 YEARS AND SERVED AS PRESIDENT OF THE MT ZION PACE MATRONS MINISTRY SEVERAL YEARS. SHE LOVED HER PASTOR AND CHURCH FAMILY.

GLORIA WAS EDUCATED IN NASHVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, GRADUATING FROM PEARL HIGH SCHOOL. GLORIA COMPLETED THE CERTIFICATION FOR NURSING TECHNICIAN.

GLORIA MOVED TO CHICAGO, ILLINOIS AND WORKED FOR ST THERESA HOSPITAL AS A CERTIFIED NURSING TECHNICIAN. SHE LATER MOVED BACK TO NASHVILLE AND WORKED FOR ST THOMAS WEST MEDICAL CENTER FOR 25+ YEARS, LATER RETIRING. GLORIA WAS KNOWN AT ST THOMAS AS THE CAKE LADY BECAUSE SHE BAKED & SOLD DELISCIOUS HOME MADE CAKES.

GLORIA WAS A RED HATTER. SHE WAS KNOWN FOR HER SWEET SMILE AND SHE ENJOYED MUSIC AND DANCING. GLORIA LOVED GOD AND SHE LOVED HER FAMILY.

SHE LEAVES TO CHERISH HER MEMORIES: HER DEVOTED CHILDREN: WANDA (NATHAN) HARDIN, AND CAROLYN (JESSE) MOONEY; DEVOTED GRANDCHILDREN: DARLENE ORR, DOMONIQUE GRANT, CLAUDE JR (SHEREKA) GRANT, JESSICA (ANTWAN) HOLMAN, PASTOR JAYMES (VICTORIA) MOONEY AND JELISA SANDERS; GREAT GRAND CHILDREN: JUSTIN ORR, DESIRAE PATTON, CHRISTOPHER CAMPBELL, TEZ HOLMAN, GIONNA GRANT, DEYLAND GRANT, GISELLE GRANT, CAYSEN GRANT, TAYLOR MOONEY, CALEB GRANT, NALA HOLMAN, AND RAEYN MOONEY; GREATGREATGRANDSON: ADONIS BUCHANAN; BONUS CHILDREN: JOHN III (GERALDINE) GENTRY, KEITH (DEBORAH) GENTRY, MICHAEL GENTRY; SISTER ROSIE WOODARD; SISTERS-IN-LAW: MATTIE WILLIAMS, ELDER OPAL SCALES AND SELENA BOWERS; BROTHER-IN-LAW: THEODORE GENTRY; DEVOTED NIECES: GLORIA (ERIC) REID, AND ROSALYN (DEDRIC) NORRIS; NEPHEW, LEONARD SMITH; DEVOTED CARETAKER: NADINE HICKERSON; DEVOTED FRIENDS: PAULINE PHELPS & LYNETTA WHITE AND A HOST OF DEVOTED NIECES, NEPHEWS ALONG WITH GREAT NIECES & NEPHEWS, OTHER RELATIVES, FRIENDS, CHURCH FAMILY AND MT ZION PACE MATRONS.