Gloria Jean Pietsch

Gloria Jean Pietsch passed away on Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007, in Las Vegas, Nev., after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. She was 74.

Gloria was born Feb. 7, 1933, in Spokane, Wash., and was adopted by Jeannette and Laurin Pietsch in the first year of her life.

She grew up in Sandpoint, Idaho, at the family home on Euclid Avenue and attended Washington Elementary, Farmin Junior High and graduated from Sandpoint High School.

She graduated from Kelsey-Baird School of Business in Spokane, and worked for General Electric Corporation in that city.

While living in Spokane, she met, fell in love with and married Sgt. Trammel S. Hardin, who at the time, was stationed at Fairchild Air Force Base.

When her husband was transferred to Nellis Air Force Base outside Las Vegas, the family moved there. Las Vegas became her home for the remainder of her life.

Gloria is survived by her daughter, Deborah Marie Gudgel, and four grandchildren of Henderson, Nev.; a son, Darin of Las Vegas; and two brothers, Gary Pietsch of Sandpoint and Kent Pietsch of Virginia Waters, England, United Kingdom. Her husband, mother and father preceded in death. In the last years of her life, her friend and roommate Ed Balukas of Las Vegas had cared for her.

At her request, no funeral arrangements are planned. She will be cremated and her ashes interred at the Pietsch family home at Hope, Idaho, at a later date.