Glenda Kay Gilbert

Glenda Kay (Fairbanks) Gilbert passed away on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the age of: as Kay would say, "That's some more of your business.". She was born on October 24, 1950, in Yale, Oklahoma. She was the daughter of Pete and Jewel (Horton) Fairbanks. On July 29, 1967, she married Gary Dwayne Gilbert. She went on to finish her Senior year at Cleveland High School, graduating with the Class of 1968. Kay and Dwayne had three children: Gary Dwayne, Jr., Lisa Kay, and Justin Wade.

Kay lived her entire life in Cleveland only after high school she went on to Northeastern Oklahoma Beauty Academy in Tahlequah. She owned and operated her beauty shop in Cleveland on Main Street. She operated this shop for a few years and then had a shop at her home in the country. She later quit the hair business and started working at a law firm for five years in downtown Tulsa. She was married to Dwayne for nearly 36 years. He was truly the Love of her life. 

Kay was a member of the Cleveland Pentecostal Holiness Church, where she was proud to have played the piano there since she was nine years old. 

Later, following the death of Dwayne, Kay met Charles Cordray and spent the last 20-plus years together.

 Survivors include her companion, Charles Cordray; two children, Lisa Poole and husband Harold, Justin Gilbert, and wife Casandra; two brothers, Willie Branson Fairbanks, James Victor Fairbanks; one sister Linda Marie Page; daughter in law Nina; five grandchildren Shelby Skye Parrick and husband Cody, Kelby Dawn Johnson and husband Zac, Jesse James Poole, Bryce Wade Gilbert, Blaine Elizabeth Gilbert, three great grandchildren Isaac Liam, Amelia Rose, Evie Layne and a host of other relatives and friends. In addition to Kays's parents, Pete and Jewell Fairbanks, she was preceded in death by her husband, Gary Dwayne Gilbert, and a son, Dwayne Gilbert, Jr.

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