Gloria Lee Daley, a resident of Fortuna, Calif. for the last 18 years, died on July 24, 2008, at the age of 83.

She and her husband, James, had three children, Stephen, Nan Lynn and Jennifer, during their life. She is survived by James; Stephen, a resident of Eureka; and Jennifer Richardson, a daughter in the San Francisco Bay Area. She will be buried at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in the Bay Area, adjacent to Nan Lynn, her oldest daughter, who died in 1994.

She is also survived by her younger brother, Jack Kingsbury; and sister-in-law, Jay, who live in Gardnerville, Nev. Also surviving are 7 first cousins, 8 nieces and nephews, and 10 grandnieces and grandnephews.

Gloria Lee and James lived at 206 Franklin Avenue in the Rancho Buena Vista Subdivision in Fortuna where they had a house built in I990. In May of 2000, because of poor health, they moved to Sequoia Springs in Fortuna.

Gloria Lee was born June 5, 1925, in Cokedale, Colo. Her father, Harry, had moved the family there after he went to work as manager of a retail store. She was the first-born child.

Later, Gloria Lee moved with her parents and brother, Jack, first to Coe’r d’ Alene, Id. and then to Rosalia, Wash., where she grew up and spent her childhood. Harry had gotten a job as Texaco Company bulk dealer serving that part of Eastern Washington. For health reasons, Harry moved the family back to northeastern New Mexico, where his family had settled. Gloria Lee graduated from Albuquerque, N.M. high school in the summer of 1942.

That fall, she enrolled again at the University of N.M. and got a job at The Albuquerque Journal, the largest daily circulation newspaper in the state, eventually becoming Sports Editor.

She was a proofreader in the printing shop and there she met her future husband, James N. Daley, who was working at the time in the editorial department. Later, James enlisted in the University’s V-12 program to become a Naval Officer attached to a Seabee battalion in Okinawa during World War II.

James and Gloria Lee were married April 1, 1945 in Wilmington, Calif., and spent their honeymoon in Ventura, near the Seabee Base in Port Hueneme before James was shipped out to Okinawa with his Seabee battalion. When Japan surrendered, James was discharged in February 1946, and attended graduate school at the University of N.M., where he got his B.A. degree in 1947. The Daleys moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he had enrolled as a graduate student at the University of Berkeley, eventually getting his Master’s degree and teaching credential from the UC system.

In I960, Gloria Lee and her family moved to the Fall River Valley in northeastern California where Jim started his first teaching job. They lived there until they moved to the Antelope Valley, where Gloria Lee’s parents, Harry and Nan Kingsbury, lived. Jim went to work at Antelope Valley High School and later as an administrative assistant to the then District Superintendent, Roy Knapp.

In the 1960s, the family moved to Orange County and bought a home in Costa Mesa, where they lived for 26 years. Gloria Lee went to work for the Davis Intermediate School Library as a library assistant and dearly loved working with the school-age group-pre-teens. The family because of Jim’s retirement moved to Fortuna in 1990.

Gloria Lee and her husband loved to travel during their summers off, and over the course of two decades in the summer they visited the British Isles, including Ireland, Scotland and England, all of the European countries and eventually, Greece. Their last vacation overseas they visited the Scandinavia in 1994. One of her favorite summer vacations was in the early 1970s when she, James and daughter Jennifer had a nostalgic visit to Rosalia, Wash., where she had a storybook childhood.

Her immediate and extended family and myriads of good friends will sorely miss her ready smile and loving, affectionate nature, always accompanied by floods of endearments and hugs-all of which became hallmarks of her personality throughout her lifetime. A mass of Christian burial will be held 10 a.m., Tuesday, July 29, 2008, at St. Joseph Catholic Church. Services and guidance entrusted to Goble’s Fortuna Mortuary, Inc.