Gladys Dieckmann passed peacefully with her daughter and son-in-law (Kathy and Kevin Garner) by her side on May 29, 2024, in Queen Creek, AZ.
Gladys was born into a Coast Guard family in Alabama (Herminia McClean Mason & Justus Jenkins Mason) and moved around the east coast following Dad’s Coast Guard assignments before the family made their way to San Francisco, where she met a young fellow ‘Coastie’ friend of her dad’s named Hank Dieckmann, whom she would marry and build a life and family with the rest of her years.
After living in the bay area and Sonoma, CA in the late sixties Hank and Gladys moved their family to accommodate Hank’s job with the Bell Telephone company in Reno to Lucas Road in Fallon, Nevada, where Gladys would raise her family and remain thru 2023. In mid-life Gladys became interested in researching her family history, and became a genealogy ‘junkie’, spending hours at the local LDS church researching her family and helping others, said time leading her to become a member of the LDS church, which became and remained a source
of comfort and strength to her for the rest of her life-notable also for the many lifelong friends she made there. Despite the at times harsh climate of Fallon, Gladys was an avid gardener and could be seen diligently planting and attending to her garden and trees.
As her children left home for their own pursuits, Gladys re-discovered her love of painting and took classes at the Western Nevada College-Fallon Campus where she became quite an accomplished painter (primarily landscapes) for which she received many accolades and awards.
The past several years Gladys spent Winter weeks in Queen Creek AZ with her Daughter Kathy’s family, escaping the cold Fallon winters, moving there in 2023 full-time.
She is preceded in death by her husband, Henry (Hank) C. Dieckmann.
Gladys is survived by her 3 children, Dan Dieckmann, John Dieckmann, and Kathy Dieckmann-Garner, her brother Butch Mason and his wife Judy. Gladys was devoted to all her grandchildren; Warren, Nicholas, and Brandon Baglin, Aaron, Talia Dieckmann-Flemming, &
Kaz Dieckmann, and Kaitlin Garner-McInnis. She enjoyed her time with her great grandchildren, including Damian Baglin, Zaden, Hennessy, & Kyla Baglin, Conway and
Ohnray Flemming, Emma/Theo Dieckmann, and Ezra. She was also close to her brother Butch’s children, Sandy, Deana, and Kenny and their families.
At Gladys’s request no formal services will be held, but there will be a family and friends celebration of Gladys’s life later this year.