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Submitted: 5/13/14 • Approved: 5/13/14 • Last Updated: 3/24/18 • R53271-G0-S3
February 24, 1917 - August 24, 2008
A Service of Witness to the Resurrection giving thanks for the life of Dr. James Frank Gladney, Jr. will be held at 2:00 pm Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at the First Presbyterian Church, Homer, LA. Burial will be at Arlington Cemetery immediately following the worship service. The family will receive friends August 26 at Rose-Neath Funeral Home in Homer from 5-7 p.m. __Dr. Gladney was born on February 24, 1917, in Homer, La. and died at his home surrounded by his family on Sunday, August 24, 2008.__Dr. Gladney married his childhood sweetheart, Margaret Gray Ford, on August 12, 1942. They celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary shortly before her death in 2007. He was also preceded in death by his parents, Dr. James Frank Gladney, Sr. and Jemmie Nelson Gladney and sister Frances Nelson Gladney. He is survived by his brother Dr. William Patrick Gladney and his sister Betty Ann Gladney, both of Homer; seven children, Patricia Anne Gladney Holland and husband George Alfred Holland, Austin, TX, Dr. Margaret Rose Gladney and Marcia R. Winter, Fernandina Beach, FL, Cynthia Ruth Gladney Steele, Homer, LA, Dr. John Davidson Gladney, Shreveport, LA, Darden Ford Gladney, Elizabeth Camille Gladney Abshire and husband Dr. Samuel Kirk Abshire, and James Patrick Gladney and wife Christina Black Gladney, all of Homer; twelve grandchildren, Laurel Holland, George Scott Holland, Kirk Gladney Holland, Grace Margaret Holland, Davidson Macdonald Steele, Teresa Diane Hughes, Kelly Elizabeth Gladney, James Andrew Abshire, Joseph Benjamin Abshire, Samuel Patrick Abshire, Christina Camille Gladney and Madalene Rose Gladney; three great-grandchildren, Taylor Gladney Holland, Sofia Holland Freed and Zachary Holland Freed.__Dr. Gladney was graduated from Homer High School, Southwestern at Memphis, and Tulane Medical School. He completed his internship at Charity Hospital, Shreveport in 1942. During WWII he served in the U.S. Army Air Corps in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters. Following the war he returned to Shreveport to pursue a surgical residency.__Dr. Gladney joined his brother in Homer as a general practitioner and surgeon in 1948 and retired from practice in 1986. He served on the Executive Board of Homer Memorial Hospital, the Board of Directors of Confederate Memorial Hospital, and as the first president of North Louisiana Area Health Education Committee. As a clinical instructor of Family Medicine at LSU Medical School, Shreveport, he influenced many medical students in their quest for rural primary care education. He received the Louisiana Rural Health Association Lifetime Service Award and was selected as the Louisiana Academy Family Practitioner of the Year in 1985.__He was a Deacon and a Ruling Elder in the First Presbyterian Church and was instrumental in founding Presbyterian Village of Homer, serving as president of its board of directors for many years. Dr. Gladney was president of The Friends of Arlington Cemetery. He was an active member of the Homer Lions Club, served on the Claiborne Parish School Board, and was named Homer's Outstanding Man of the Year in 1967-1968. He received the first Distinguished Alumnus Award from Southwestern at Memphis.__The family expresses their gratitude for his caregivers: Ethel Allen, Lovell Stevenson, Virginia Robinson, Jessie Ruth Cooper, Mary Ann Gilbert, and Dorothy Malray; the staff of Claiborne Home Health; and the staff of Homer Memorial Hospital.__In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorials to First Presbyterian Church, P.O. Box 297, Homer, LA 71040 and Claiborne Healthcare Foundation, P.O. Box 578, Homer, LA 71040.
Rose-Neath Funeral Home_Homer Chapel 927-6110
Courtesy of Sylvia Ford
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