Gloria Fine

Gloria Fine, age 88, of Cave Junction, passed away peacefully at her home on Wednesday, August 27, 2014.

A memorial service will be at 1:00 p.m., Saturday, September 6, 2014 at Hull & Hull Funeral Directors.

Ms. Fine was born in Bakersfield, California to Lewis & Julia Ramos, April 20, 1926. She attended Bakersfield High School and after graduation moved to San Francisco, California to begin her working career with Bank of America. In 1952 she married Coleman O. “Hobby” Brockett and had two children. After her husband's death in 1956, she moved to Saratoga, California and later met and married her second husband, Ray L. Fine and moved to San Jose, California. They also had two children. In 1968, they purchased and managed a motel in So. Lake Tahoe, California, where they lived for four years before returning to San Jose. Upon retirement, Gloria and her husband moved to Grants Pass, Oregon where they bought a home on the Rogue River and enjoyed raising Fine Arabians and Gloria found her talent in oil painting. After a few years, they got the travel bug and took pleasure in traveling the states by RV. Widowed a second time by Ray's death in 1993, Gloria, then, decided to busy herself volunteering as a “Pink Lady” with Josephine Memorial Hospital, now Asante Three Rivers, for 27 years, in which she felt was truly rewarding. Ms. Fine lived with her daughter, including her beloved lap dogs, in Cave Junction, Oregon for the last seven years.

Ms. Fine was preceded in death by her late husband, Ray L. Fine and her sister, Thelma (Ramos) Glenn.

She is survived by her brother, Lionel Ramos of Bakersfield, CA; three sons, Michael Fine (Darlene) of Fremont, CA, Robert Fine of Grants Pass and Ronald Fine (Michelle) of Los Gatos, CA; a daughter, Patricia Fine of Cave Junction, OR; three grandsons, Raymond and Robert Fine of Grants Pass, OR; Bradley Fine of Los Gatos, CA and two granddaughters, Jessica and Victoria Fine of Los Gatos, CA.