Elma Louise Glass Obituary (2024)

Elma Louise (Eloise) Glass, 100, of Yakima, passed away on November 4, 2024 at Crescent Health Care in Yakima. She was born on May 17, 1924 to Elmer James and Bessie Ransom in New Plymouth, Idaho. Eloise moved to Payette, Idaho as a child and lived there until she graduated from Payette High School in 1942. She went on to spend the following two years attending Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. There she met the love of her life, Robert (Bob) Glass, after she was invited to spend Thanksgiving at a college friend's house, to which Bob had been invited too. They hit it off immediately, and dated until Bob joined the U.S. Army in the fall of 1943 and was soon shipped off to fight in the Philippines. Upon his return and discharge from the Army in January 1946, they married the very next month, on February 22, 1946. They spent a few more years in Salem, where they welcomed their first two sons, Jim and Chuck, then moved to Yakima in 1954, welcoming daughter Nancy, son Tom, and another daughter, Jeanne. While Bob worked the rest of his career at KIMA TV, Eloise was a homemaker for the next 20 years, occupying her time sewing, quilting, knitting, baking cookies almost daily, playing her treasured organ, and chasing after five kids! In the mid-70's, as her nest was emptying, she began a career as a bookkeeper at Good Samaritan Health Care Center, where she worked until her retirement in 1989. That same year Bob passed away after a short battle with cancer. She kept busy in retirement, traveling to a variety of bucket list destinations in Europe, Australia, China, and Scandinavia, just to name a few. When she wasn't planning a new trip, she kept busy volunteering at the Discovery Shop, working at a fabric store, and helping out in the kitchen at the same facility where she took her last breath, Crescent Health Care in Yakima. She also enjoyed spending time with her seven grandkids, and in recent years, several great-grandkids as well. Eloise was preceded in death by her husband Bob, parents Elmer and Bessie Ransom, her sister Ruth Reiniger, brother James Ransom, and daughter Nancy Paine. She is survived by three sons, Jim Glass, Chuck Glass, and Tom Glass, all of Yakima; daughter Jeanne (Cal) Thompson, also of Yakima; son-in-law Jim Paine of Moxee, WA; and grandkids Kelly (Melissa) Glass of Williston, ND; Shannan (Misty) Glass of Lynnwood, WA; Chelsi (Dan) Lucero of Portland, OR; Jameson (Lori) Garlington of Moxee, WA, Jackson (Alyssa) Garlington of Ypsilanti, MI; Dillon (Shea) Thompson of Eagle, CO; and Courtney Ackerman of W. Sacramento, CA. She also leaves behind seven great-grandchildren. A Celebration of her remarkable long life will be held at 2 p.m. on Friday, November 15th, 2024 at the Yakima Alliance Church, 902 S 36th Avenue, Yakima. Brookside Funeral Home & Crematory - Memories and condolences may be shared at: www.brooksidefuneral.com