The Norman Transcript
July 13, 1997
Gladys P. Bartholomew, 91, Noble, died wednesday, July 9,
at Noble Health Care Center.
Services are scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Monday, at Strode Funeral
Home in Stillwater, with the Rev. Mike Nicolson officiating. Burial will
be at Fairlawn Cemetery in Stillwater, under the direction of
Strode Funeral Home.
She was born Dec. 20, 1905, in Ripley, to Francis Victor and Dallas
Eaton. She attended public schools in Oklahoma, and graduated in 1923
with the first graduating class of Skedee High School. She graduated
from Oklahoma A&M in 1932, where she was a member of Phi Kappa
Phi, a scholastic honor society in land grant schools. She began her
teaching career in 1924 in Skedee, later teaching in Terlton, Glencoe,
Sapulpa and Norman. From 1949 to 1952, she piloted the first
elementary school special education classes for University school,
under the administration of the University of Oklahoma. She retired from
Norman Public Schools in 1970, after 16 years of teaching first grade
in Lincoln and Jackson schools and serving as reading coordinator
for the Norman schools from 1966 to 1970. She also was employed
by Economy Book Co. from 1960 to 1964, as reading consultant for the
southwest region, holding phonics seminars for area elementary teachers.
She was chosen as Norman's Teacher of the Year in 1964. She was
one of the few members of the League of American Pen Women recognized
as both an artist and author. Her book, "The Long Line of Letters' was
published in 1972. She also had numerous articles published on teaching
and phonics. Her watercolors have hung in various local exhibits including a
noted series of one-room schoolhouses entitled "Historic Schoolhouses of
Oklahoma." Her painting of the Bugtussle school that Carl Albert attended
now hangs in the Carl Albert Center at the University of Oklahoma. For
many years she taught Sunday school for first graders at McFarlin Memorial
United Methodist Church, where she was a member. Her watercolor of
the church has been used on notes and programs.
She was a member of Norman Retired Teachers, Oklahoma retired Teachers,
League of American Pen Women, Norman Galaxy of the Oklahoma Writers
Federation, Kappa Chapter of Kappa Phi, and was a volunteer at Norman
Regional Hospital's Nu-N-Nuff Shop.
She married Roland Neil Bartholomew on Aug. 30, 1930, in Webb City.
She was preceded in death by her husband on June 2, 1996; her parents;
and a daughter, Sarah Lynn.
She is survived by two sons, Robert Bartholomew and his wife, Barbara,
of Norman and John Bartholomew and his wife, Pauline, of Lake Dallas,
Texas; five grandchildren, Brad Bartholomew and Karen Fain, both of Moore,
Michele Proctor of Oklahoma City, May Ling Wysong of McKinney, Texas,
and Devon Bartholomew of the U.S. Marine Corps; and six great-grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation,
825 N.E. 13th St. Oklahoma City, Ok 73104.
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