Glory Lee Wedge

Glory Lee Wedge, neé Wisniewski, passed away in the loving company of family and friends on Sunday, July 27, 2025, in New Port Richey, Florida, after a battle with cancer. Glory was 82 years old. She is deeply loved and deeply missed.

Glory, born on June 9, 1943, was the first child of Alexander and Caroline (Hiscock) Wisniewski. The family lived in North Brookfield, Massachusetts, where Glory was voted Prom Queen and graduated from high school in 1961. She and her first husband, Donald Wedge, lived in North Brookfield and raised three children: Kathy, Sherrie, and Donald, Jr.

A lifelong lover of the beach, Glory moved to Cape Cod in the mid-1980s with plans to open a Bed & Breakfast with one of her closest friends. Life had other ideas, however, when she answered a classifieds dating ad and met, Alan Duckworth. The two married in 1987 and made a home together for 25 years in Sandwich, Massachusetts. In addition to teaching night courses at Cape Cod Community College, Glory managed the medical practice of a local doctor in Hyannis throughout her career on Cape Cod until her retirement and subsequent move to another oceanside town, New Port Richey, Florida, in 2012. She lived with Alan in a community there, where she made many new friends, reconnected with former schoolmates, and enjoyed an active social life, gracing dances, costume parties, and karaoke nights at the local clubhouse with her lively and warm presence. After Alan passed in 2020, Glory met and married her final spouse, Chuck Beverly, in 2021, and continued to reside with him in her home for the last three years of her life.

Glory was a lifelong reader and often had a book in her hands when she relaxed in the evenings. She was interested in her family's genealogy and kept and shared the stories of the people and special items in her family's history with her children and grandchildren. As a grandmother, Glory supported her grandchildren in following their passions by encouraging them to participate in extracurricular activities and taking them on educational trips to museums and other places of interest around New England during their childhoods. Glory enjoyed traveling. In addition to return trips to visit family and friends in New England, Glory visited each of her eldest daughter's homes as she moved from Colorado, New Mexico, and California. She went to the coast of Maine, where she honeymooned with her late husband Alan, as often as she was able. Glory also took several cruises and trips around Florida during her retirement.

Everyone that knew Glory loved her. Glory loved to be supportive and make those around her feel happy, always lending a helping hand and a listening ear to all of her loved ones throughout her life. Her friends describe her as loyal, supportive, real, loving, sweet, kind, gracious, down to earth, a lot of fun, caring, joyful, compassionate, courageous, and a beautiful soul. She had incredible strength and fought her battle with cancer with grace and openness. She was the best friend to many.

Glory leaves behind four siblings: Alan Wisniewski and his wife, Becky, of Lowell, Massachusetts; Betty Bruley and her husband, Richard, of Spencer, Massachusetts; Merry Obrzut of North Brookfield, Massachusetts; and Dean Wisniewski and his wife, Laurie, of West Brookfield, Massachusetts. She also leaves behind her three children and four grandchildren: daughter Kathryn Huber, and her husband Donald, of Martinez, California; daughter Sherrie Messana and her husband, Frank, of Winchester, New Hampshire; son Donald Wedge, Jr., of New Braintree, Massachusetts and his wife Kara; grandson Ian Davies and his wife, Cassandra, of Newton Massachusetts; grandson Don Wedge III of Hubbardston, Massachusetts; grandson Michael Albrecht of Brooklyn, New York; and granddaughter Jessica Riel and her husband, Marc, of Westhampton, Massachusetts; along with stepdaughter Stephanie Duckworth of Franklin Park, New Jersey; many cousins, nieces, and nephews; her husband, Chuck; and many friends.

A service will be held for Glory at Trinity Presbyterian Church, 4651 Little Road, New Port Richey, Florida on August 30, 2025, at 10 o'clock in the morning. A second service will be held at Brookfield Cemetery, 43 Main Street, Brookfield, Massachusetts on October 4, 2025 at 11 o'clock in the morning.

Donations may be made to Gulfside Hospice: 2061 Collier Parkway, Land O' Lakes, FL 34639, gulfside.org.