I am a sports columnist for cleveland.com & The Plain Dealer. I grew up in the Cleveland area, attended Benedictine High and Cleveland State. I also spent 22 years at the Akron Beacon Journal before returning to the PD in 2007. For more information, you can check me out at www.terrypluto.com and on Facebook at http://www.facebook.
For Gloria Williams, that meant singing while she worked at the Fairlawn Walmart. It meant talking to friends, praying with some.
Oh, and there is the friend whose daughter is in the middle of a divorce and has moved back in with Mom – bringing along her teenage daughter. There is another friend raising her grandkids. Another had an adult child on drugs. I met Gloria 25 years ago. I was doing ministry for the men at Portage County Jail. Gloria was ministering to the women at the same facility. She also was struggling in various parts of her life. No drugs or alcohol, but relationships and some medical issues.
She was a superstar in jail and the Haven of Rest. Some guys had heard her sing for years and would ask her to do their favorite songs. She loved to bang on her tambourine in church and while singing. Like many creative people, Gloria never worried about keeping an immaculate home. But when the calendar turned to October, she asked Roberta to help her do a big house cleaning. “For my birthday,” she said.On October 5, I took Gloria to work at Walmart and picked her up. She was in a great mood. We ate at Rockne’s, one of her favorite Akron restaurants.We often put a song on the I-phone and sing to and from work. That was what we sang on October 5, her last day at Walmart.
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