Gloria Jean Billingsley, age 77 of Prairie City, passed away on Monday, December 26, 2022 at the Comfort House in Pella. Funeral services will be held on Friday, December 30, 2022, at 10:30 am at Coburn Funeral Home in Prairie City. Burial will take place at Waveland Cemetery. The family will greet friends beginning at 9:00 am until service time on Friday. Memorials may be directed to Hospice of Pella Comfort House and condolences may be left for the family at www.coburnfuneralhomes.com

The daughter of Rose Cruz, Gloria was born on February 15, 1945 in Aiea, Hawaii. She met her husband James Joseph Billingsley in 1962 while he was deployed in Hawaii and they fell in love. On September 15, 1962, they were united in marriage. As a grandmother she was generous, loving and kind. She loved spending time with her children and grandchildren. In her free time, Gloria enjoyed sitting in the sun on her front porch and watching people walk by. She loved to bake and share her treats with others as well as crocheting. Gloria and Jim enjoyed camping and visiting with friends.

Those left to honor her memory include her three daughters, Sheila (Brent) Vander Leest, Bobbi (Michael) Streeter and Wanda (Kyle) Van Houweling; six grandchildren, Jamie (J.J.) Linderman, Tyler Vander Leest, Adam (Amy) Streeter, Seth (Jessica) Streeter, Courtney Van Houweling, and Koby Van Houweling; and seven great grandchildren, Blake and Brody Wyngarden, Rowen, Kentlee and Karsyn Streeter, and Ezra and Elijah Streeter. Also surviving are her siblings, Rosemarie Zane, Manuel Lacanaria, Lawrence Lacanaria, Eugene Lacanaria, Verona Rhoades, Alan Baclaan and Valerie McCormack; sisters and brothers-in-law, Sharon and Richard Boner and Karen and Doug Vande Krol along with several nieces and nephews.

Preceding Gloria in death was her mother, husband in 2018, mother and father-in-law James E. and Betty Billingsley and siblings, Helen Ebia, Miriam Inay, Lolita Basug and Gary Baclaan.