Gloria Pearson Wiley

Gloria Joyce Pearson Wiley

11/15/32-9/26/25

Gloria Joyce Pearson Wiley born to George and Myrtle Pearson in Bryceland, La. She attended Minden High School graduating in 1953. She worked for the Bell Telephone Company and was a seamstress at Singer Sewing Service before retiring then owned and operated Webster Sewing Service in Minden for 10 years but went back to work years later in Minden’s 1st Walmart and worked at all 3 of the locations in Minden until 2018. She loved to travel, traveling to Israel, Alaska, several cruises and to Nicaragua and New Mexico on several mission trip. Serving the Lord was her passion. She was a Sunday school teacher in the 60’s-70’s and helped every year at VBS at Antioch Baptist Church in Dixie Inn, La but later joined First Baptist Church in Minden, La. If you ever asked her how she was doing she would tell you “I’m doing good just feisty and mean as ever” when everyone would tell her she was just a sweetheart.

She is proceeded in death by her parents George and Myrtle Pearson, Brothers: Ira, Joe, Bill and Ralph Pearson, Sister: Georgia-Anne Campbell.

Those left to cherish her memories are her sons Jack Welch lll (Nancy) of Brandon, Ms, George (Deedee) Welch of Minden and Joseph Welch (Cindy) of Center, Tx, grandchildren: Hollie Crawford (Kevin), Joseph Welch (Nicole), Sean Welch, Ashley Arnold (Shad) and Morgan Youngblood (Chad). Great grandchildren: Gracie Cummings (Jackson), Sara Crawford, Cannan and Caeson Youngblood, Riley and Kinsley Arnold, Wylie and Kacey Welch, Benjamin and Jovie Welch and Great Great Granddaughter Lila Cummings and a slew of adopted grandkids because everyone called her “Mamaw” and Sisters: Effie (Bunch) Cox of Cotton Valley and Sybil Gonzales (Manual) of Lufkin, Tx and an abundance of nephews and nieces as well as great nieces and nephews.

Services will be at 10:00 a.m. Friday October 3, 2025, at Whispering Pines Missionary Baptist Church with Bor. Bill Crider officiating. Burial to follow at Whispering Pine Church Cemetery in Minden, LA. The family will receive friends Thursday, October 2, 2025, from 4:00 until 7:00 p.m. at Rose Neath Funeral Home in Minden, Louisiana.

Pallbearers being: Wade Butcher, Chad Youngblood, Kevin Crawford, Jon Conway, John Triplet and Cannan Youngblood and Honorary Pallbearers will be Caeson Youngblood and Wylie Welch.

The family would like to thank Passages Hospice as well as a special Thank you to Renita Killough for taking such great care of her in the last year.