Baden, Dessie Gladys

Dessie Gladys, 97, of Salem and formerly of Craig County, Va. and Miami, Fla., died Monday, February 18, 2008, at Richfield Recovery and Care Center.

She was born in Craig County, Va., on July 22, 1910, to the late Grover Mason and Rebecca Clementine Stebars Hutchison. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Clovis W. Baden; and two brothers, Arnold Hutchison and Giles Hutchison.

She is survived by her two sisters, Grace H. Miller, of Christiansburg, Va., and Clara Walker, of Union, W.Va.; brother and sister-in-law, Carper and Laverne Hutchison, of Lancaster, Pa.; five nieces, Lucille Spangler and husband, Curtis, Nora Bell and husband, Eddie, Betty Stanger and husband, Joe, Terry Jackson, and husband, Dale, and Peggy Cromer; three nephews, Robert Hutchison, Lewis Hutchison and Danny Walker; and several great-nieces and greatnephews.

Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday, February 21, 2008, in the McCoy Funeral Home Chapel with Mr. James Bayne officiating. Interment will follow in the Clover Hollow Cemetery, Newport, Va. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday evening, February 20, 2008, at the McCoy Funeral Home, 150 Country Club Drive S.W., Blacksburg, Va.