Las Sabinas, Volume 4, Number 1, July 1978 Page: 34
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GLADYS CARPENTER ODOM, A CENTURY OLD ON NOVEMBER 23
By Nina Harden
Gladys Odom was only 96 years old when I wrote an article
about her for the Opportunity Valley News. She was living alone
at the time in apparently good health. Since then she has moved
to the Bridge City nursing home, Green Acres, where she celebrated
her 100th birthday on Nov. 23. Among those attending the party
were Mrs. Odom's only surviving child, Mrs. Eva Leman, 80, who
is also residing in the nursing home; and her stepdaughter, Rita
Kibodeaux, who is employed as an LVN. Mrs. Odom's feature story
carried on Feb. 20, 1974 follows:
RELIGION COMES FROM HEAVEN, NOT CHURCH - GLADYS CARPENTER ODOM, 96
On November 23, 1877 a baby girl was born in a small cabin
to Jules and Mary Lalieu Thibodeaux Carpenter, dirt farmers near
New Iberia, Louisiana. They named her Gladys and welcomed her
as they did the 10 other children already born, or yet to be. The
parents were good, honest, hard working Catholic people of French
descent.
Jules owned 60 acres of land and Gladys and her brothers and
sisters helped him to eke out a living from the farm. She remembers
the love and the enduring good spirits of her mother.
"My mother would waste nothing. She would save and save.
But always she would sing and laugh. Our cabin had one big room
and a kitchen full of cracks. But my mother was so good. She
loved us and taught us to love everybody and to be good Catholics.
I taught catechism to the younger children after I learned to
read and write.34.
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