Gloria Wilkinson

Gloria Lori M. Wilkinson
A rosary is scheduled 7:00 p.m., Friday, January 8, 2010 at the Ballard Funeral Home Chapel for Gloria Lori M. Wilkinson, 72, of Roswell who passed away January 5, 2010 at Roswell Regional Hospital. A funeral mass is scheduled for 9:30 a.m., Saturday, January 9, 2010 at Assumption Catholic Church. Father Bill McCann will officiate. Burial will follow at South Park Cemetery. Lori will lie in state on Friday, January 8, 2010 at 5:00 p.m. thru the Rosary.
Lori was born on December 13, 1937 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Austin Pulley and Agatha Edel Pulley. Her parents have preceded her in death as well as her step father John Olson and a daughter, Carrie Hadsall who passed away in June of 2007.
Lori married Timothy Wilkinson on May 28, 1966 in Chicago. Her husband survives her at the family home.
Lori is also survived by her daughters: Cindy K. Gazdik and her husband Terry of Roswell, and Christy Jo Wilkinson of Ruidoso her brothers: Mark Pulley and wife Linda of Ft. Meyers, Florida and James Pulley and wife Kathy of East Troy, Wisconsin her sisters: Pat and her husband Jim Koehler of Muskego, Wisconsin, Mary Jo and husband John Brensinger III of Burlington, Wisconsin and Linda and husband Jeff Bilton of Clifton, TX as well as eight grandchildren and five great grandchildren.
Lori has lived in Roswell for 30 years and worked as a Real Estate Agent for Professional Real Estate Service. She was a member of Assumption and the Pecos Valley Potters Guild. Lori, whose given name at her Catholic baptism was Gloria Mae, lived her name. She brought glory to God through her lifes example. Lori had an incredibly deep prayer life. The strength that she received from her faith in God the Father and the special relationship she had with the Blessed Virgin Mary was shared regularly with her family and friends. Her devotion as a wife, mother, grandma and greatgrandma was an obvious extension of her faith. After God, her family was her lifes focus. She was a Proverbs 31 woman, learning to sew clothes for her children and grandchildren. Soon her creativity expanded to include gardening, canning, jewelry making, ceramics and pottery.
One of Loris favorite prayers was the Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi:

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love
where there is injury, pardon
where there is doubt, faith
where there is despair, hope
where there is darkness, light
and where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console
to be understood as to understand
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen
Pallbearers will be Aaron McGuire, Terry Gazdik, Ryan Burden, Jason Gazdik, Jeffrey Gazdik and Chet Pfiefer.
Arrangements have been entrusted to Ballard Funeral

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