Gladys Lee Myers Cissna

GRAVESIDE SERVICES: TUESDAY,OCTOBER 20, 201510:00 A.M.OLD MARS HILL CEMETERYVISITATION: MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 20155:00-7:00 P.M.  MCCLAIN-HAYSINTERMENT:OLD MARS HILL CEMETERYOFFICIATING MINISTER: REV. RICHARD BURKSGladys Myers was a Mississippi native born to Audrey Mae (Johnson) Myers and Bob Lee Myers in the red hills of the Mars Hill community of Winston County on November 11, 1920, during a time of thriving sawmill industries. Her name sake was a writer of the Commercial Appeal, and her middle name was taken from her father’s middle name.Ms Cissna lived, schooled and attended church in the Mars Hill and Plattsburg communities, where she graduated grammar school in 1935. After moving to Noxapater, she attended Noxapater High School graduating in 1939. She worked as a telephone exchange helper.  She moved to Meridian in 1940, seeking employment. She was a waitress for a while later working for Owens-Corning Fiberglass Inc., where she retired in 1984.According to her witness, she was 11 years old at the pentecostal church when Jesus came into her heart and she received the Holy Ghost. She later attended First Assembly Of God. Heaven was her heart’s desire. She loved her Savior and family.