Gloria Starks

Gloria Delores Cole Starks, 78, died in her home near Kerrville, Texas on December 12, 2005. Mrs. Starks was born March 19, 1927 in Chicago Heights, Illinois, the daughter of Walter LeRoy Cole and Marjorie Delores Dunlap. She was baptized on April 10, 1938 at the First Presbyterian Church in Chicago Heights, where the family was long time members. She graduated from high school in Rock Island, Illinois on June 8, 1945. She married first Raymond Driver on April 13, 1947 at Central Presbyterian Church in Rock Island, where she was a member they had two children. In Rock Island, Gloria worked as a telephone operator for Illinois Bell Telephone Company and as an auditing clerk with the Supreme Office of Royal Neighbors of America. She moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1953 to be near her birth family that had relocated there in 1951. She was employed as a secretary with DriverMiller Plumbing Company and also with the City of Albuquerque from 19671977. She married Charles Henry Starks on February 15, 1971 at Rio Grande Presbyterian Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she was a long time member. After retiring from her job with the City of Albuquerque, and when Charles retired in 1982, they sold their home and began fulltime recreation vehicle traveling. They bought their home near Kerrville in 1989 and still continued parttime traveling, usually spending summers in Colorado. They were long time members of St. Pauls United Methodist Church. Surviving in addition to her husband, Charles, are her children one son, Donald Driver of Howard, Colorado, and one daughter, Linda Driver Jones of Jasper, Georgia one stepdaughter, Amy Starks Rigney of Pittsboro, North Carolina, and one stepson, Fred Starks of Jerseyville, Illinois nine grandchildren and six greatgrandchildren one brother, Walter Cole of Albuquerque, New Mexico she was preceded in death by one sister, Lois Cole Wilson.Memorial services will be 2:00 p.m., Friday December 16, 2005 at St. Pauls United Methodist Church in Kerrville with Rev. Sherry Strain officiating. Glorias remains will be cremated and put to rest in the National Cemetery in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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