Gloria (Seals) Stearley, age 66 passed away suddenly on April 28, 2020, after experiencing a ruptured brain aneurysm.  She was preceded in death by her parents, Dale and Elma Seals of Arbela, Missouri.  Gloria's family moved to their farm north of Memphis when she was two years of age. She and her siblings attended Scotland County R-1 schools from kindergarten through her senior year of high school.  She then attended the University of Missouri and graduated with a degree in Art.  She married her husband, Ralph, in Columbia in 1976.  She and her family lived in Grand Rapids, Michigan, from 1992 until her death.

Gloria is honored by husband Ralph and children Samuel, Ursula (Mike) Koster, and Jane (Brett) Langschied, and grandchildren Cayden and Bettie Langschied.  She is survived by six beloved siblings:  Owen (Kathy) Seals of Green River, Wyoming; Wanda (John) Meyer of Luverne, Minnesota; Ross (Reta) Seals of Linn, Missouri; Monte (Bekki) Seals of Rogersville, Missouri; Mark Seals of Kirksville, Missouri; and Karla Seals (Bryant Arioso) of Jefferson, South Dakota, and many nieces and nephews.   Gloria was a quiet but joyful person who loved to joke and laugh.  She possessed a keen eye for color and texture, which expressed itself in her love for wildflowers and gardening, as well as in knitting and weaving at a series of ever-larger and more complicated looms.  She exemplified the noble woman of Proverbs, Chapter 31:  "She holds the distaff in her hand, and her fingers grasp the spindle…when she opens her mouth, it is to speak wisely, and loyalty is the theme of her teaching."   She loved her family and God deeply.  She was able to donate organs through Michigan Gift of Life, for which we are all grateful.

A Celebration of Life Service will be Tuesday, June 20, 2023 at 2:00 p.m at the Memphis Funeral Home in Memphis, Missouri with family receiving friends from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Interment will be at Mt. Moriah cemetery in Azen, where she will be in interred near her parents.

An expression of sympathy in memory of Gloria (Seals) Stearley may be left to the Mt. Moriah Cemetery in Azen. A memorial may be left at or mailed to the Memphis Funeral Home 378 S. Market Street, Memphis, Missouri 63555.