Glenda Gloria Marino

Our Mom, Glenda Marino was received into the arms of Her Savior Jesus Christ on Thursday morning September 22, 2016. It is a profound understatement to say that she will be missed by those of us who have always known her presence. In the good times and in the bad, in the happy and in the sad, from near or from very far she was always a rock to count on. She always shared her shoulder to cry with, was always jubilant to share happy times and always made each and every one of us feel special and important. Born Glenda Gloria Bonner in Marshall Texas on November 13, 1931 she and her two siblings were moved from place to place in the early oil exploration days of Oklahoma and Texas, rarely staying in any one location long. She met her dear Johnny Marino and married into his Krebs Oklahoma Italian family at the tender age of 18, beginning their own family and significant legacy soon thereafter. Counting her nine children, their spouses, her twenty six grand-children and their spouses and now twenty great-grand children this family now numbers greater than seventy-seven lives that all claim Glenda as their own. To her, each one was special and she did her best to make all feel unique and loved. It's hard to say how much she invested into the Hallmark card company rarely missing a birthday note to any one of them. But immediate family only scratched the surface of the lives that Glenda touched over the years being an active Catholic in the local parishes of Corpus Christi, St John and Christ the King. There she participated in all facets of parish life and lived a good example for her family of how to live a life of faith and service to others. She made many close friends as she worked in the gift shop at Children's Hospital, and the day nursery at local churches and is a surrogate Grand-Ma to many other children that she was "nanny" to. The most recent family that she attached herself to was at St Anne Retirement village where she spent the last 18 months be-friending many and was ever-present to help cheer up residents and staff alike. Mom was preceded in death by her husband John Leo Marino in 1989, and has shown us her extreme strength of character and compassion during all these years as the head of this large family. She also suffered the death of two of her nine children. Joanna Marino Smith and John Glen Marino. Her mother Mildred Alice Evans and her father E J Bonner Sr have also preceded her as well as her brother E J Bonner Jr. and is survived by her sister Maureen Bonner Davis of San Antonio and a very large number of nieces and nephews on both sides of the family. Glenda has seven surviving children, and numerous grand and great grandchildren. Gregory and Laura Marino of Tulsa, Bob Marino, Monica and Mark Ward, David and Kathy Marino, Marcia and Joe Hogsett, Monica Lee Marino and Francis Xavier Marino of Oklahoma City, Tony and Lyndsay Marino of Houston. Her grandchildren are John and Julie Marino, Mark and Tara Marino, Paul and Lacee Marino and Christopher and Andrea Marino; Loren and Cullen Marino; Keith and Tiffany Ward, Anna and Amy Ward; Aaron Jack Smith; Alex and Cecy Marino, and Mary Beth Dawson; Stephanie Marino, Camden, Sterling and Jon Austin Marino; Jason and Laura Hogsett, Josh, Katy and Michael Hogsett; Ian Marino; Sam, Allie, Zach and Jacob Marino. Her great grandchildren are Emmarie, Nealy and Madeline Story Marino; Ryan, Owen, Caroline and Ruby Marino; Nolan, Leah and Carson Marino; Avery, Jax, Asher and Quaid Smith; Luke Ward; Katlynn Dawson; Isla Marino; and Jayden Marino.