Gladys M. Willis, 92, retired Wichita public schools teacher, died Friday, Dec. 19, 1997. (Wichita Eagle, December 20, 1997)

Memorial: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=143866214

Mrs. Willis retired in 1971 (1971 Trail Yearbook):

Before coming to West, Mrs. Gladys Willis received her Bachelor of Science at Columbia University. She also did graduate work at Alva, Oklahoma, and attended Kansas University and Wichita State University where she received her Masters. She has taught in Missouri and Oklahoma; she taught in Planeview during the war. She worked both with junior high and high school students before coming to West in 1956. Her future plans are to travel with her travel trailer as means of transportation, and to just enjoy herself.