Gladys Bittle Obituary

With heavy hearts, we announce the death of Gladys Bittle (Tumbling Shoals, Arkansas), who passed away on April 20, 2020 at the age of 96. Family and friends are welcome to send flowers or leave their condolences on this memorial page and share them with the family.

She was loved and cherished by many people including: her parents, Lee Roy Heigle and Ethel Salters Heigle; her grandfather Frank Heigle; her former husband George Richard Whitaker; her husband Wiley C. Bittle; her brothers, Hubert, Buck and Isaac Heigle; her son Terry D. Bittle; her sisters, Ruby Davidson and Eileen Heigle; her granddaughter Randi Leigh Clanton; her daughter-in-law Edwina Lea Whitaker; her children, George R. Whitaker of Piedmont, SD and Sharon Kay Brown (Lloyd) of Quitman, AR; her daughter-in-law Kathy Bittle of Tumbling Shoals, AR; her granddaughter Tara Smith (Clint) of Conway, Arkansas; her great grandchildren, Charly Kay, Caston Boyce Clanton of Mississippi, Harper and Haven Smith; and her stepgrandchildren, Russell and Blake Baldridge of Tumbling Shoals, AR. She was also cherished by other extended family members and many friends.