2006
Gloria Walter Childers, 73, a native Washingtonian and former
Greenbelt resident who worked as an administrative assistant in
the 1960s, died of cancer July 14 at her home in Nokomis, Fla.,
where she had lived since 1976.
Mrs. Childers, who attended McKinley Technical High
School, worked at a doctor's office in Greenbelt, the Goddard
Space Flight Center in Greenbelt and the Arbitron media
research firm.
A son, James Childers, died in 1983.
Survivors include her husband of 57 years, James C.
Childers Sr. of Nokomis; two sons, John Childers Sr. of
Greenbelt and Jeffrey Childers of Seaside, Ore.; a brother; seven
grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren