COOS BAY - A Celebration of the life of Glenna Stone, 84, of North Bend/Coos Bay will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 29th, at the First United Methodist Church in North Bend, Oregon. Glenna was born in Sells, Arizona in January of 1924 to Leo F. and Glenna Gretchen (Keller) Walker.  She passed away on March 14, 2008 in Coos Bay, Oregon.  Glenna spent the first 14 years of her life on several different Indian Reservations where her parents taught school.  She graduated from Corvallis High School and Oregon State College.  She married AJ Stone on June 9, 1946 in Corvallis, Oregon.  After AJ finished college they lived in Dayton two years before moving to Amity, Oregon where they raised their three daughters.  Glenna lived in Amity 47 years.  During that time she was a piano and organ teacher to 41 students and the pianist/organist for the Amity Methodist Church.  She was a news reporter for three newspapers for many years.  Glenna and AJ raised the gigantic eremurus flowers they shipped around the United States.  Glenna continued doing this after AJ's death in 1991 until she moved to North Bend, Oregon in 1998.Glenna loved her family, friends, music, gardening, and church.  These things continued to be her focus in North Bend.  She became organist for the First United Methodist Church and substitute organist for four other churches.  She loved being a part of the Carol-lons Bell Ringers.  She spent a lot of time in her garden and was an active member of two garden clubs.Survivors include daughters, Beth Guthrie of Prineville, Oregon, Carol Ulin of Fremont, California and Marilyn Johnson of North Bend, Oregon; granddaughters, Adrienne Backues of Madison, Wisconsin and Karen Isley of North Bend, Oregon; grandsons, Kevin and Brian Ulin of Berkley and Fremont, California; great-granddaughter, Rebecca Backues of Madison, Wisconsin.  The family Suggests memorial contributions be made to Friends of Shore Acres Botanical Gardens, P.O. Box 1172, Coos Bay, Oregon.Arrangements are under the directions of Myrtle Grove Funeral Service-Bay Area, 800-396-3158.


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