In Memory

Gretrude Stonestreet

Gertrude "Trudy," Stonestreet,

KALISPELL — Gertrude "Trudy," Stonestreet, 81, a former Kalispell resident visiting friends in the Flathead Valley, died Friday in a Whitefish hospital. 

Service, 2 p.m. Monday at the Northridge Heights Church of God in Kalispell; burial in Glacier Memorial Gardens. 

Born in Oklahoma Indian Territory. Graduated from high school in Ardmore, Okla. Earned teaching degree at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tenn., then taught at high schools in Arkansas and Montana.

Married John Stonestreet in 1956 in Las Vegas. 

Lived in Flathead Valley from 1958 until moving to Bismarck, Ark., in 1979.

Survivors: husband; son, William Lines in El Dorado, Ark.; sisters, Ruth Lawson of Missoula and Bonnie Gaines of Kansas City, Mo.; six grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. Weatherford Funeral Home.