Glennadyne Jessie Rhodes Hinkle

Glennadyne Jessie Rhodes “Glennie” was born on October 7, 1933 in the small town of La Center, Washington. Her parents were Charles Lee Rhodes and Florence Irene Anderson Rhodes. She was born at home, as was the tradition in those days. She had one sister Char, who was three years older, and two younger brothers, Eddie and Rod. She had a very happy childhood in La Center surrounded by her parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. When she was little, her Dad and his brother Ralph owned one of the two stores in town, called the “The Rhodes Brothers Store.” It was the height of the depression, but the family made do. Mom’s parents had a big garden each year as well as an apple tree, and her Mom canned and preserved a lot of their vegetables and fruits to last through the winter. Her Dad also hunted in the fall and went fishing a lot so the family had meat. When Glennie was 2 1/2 years old, she and her sister were playing at a neighbors house and she fell out of a hammock and broke her leg. When it healed, she had to learn to walk again. Glennie started school in La Center in 1939. She was in the first grade. She made friends that year that would remain with her throughout her life. Beginning when she was nine years old she got a job picking strawberries for a neighbor from Sweden, and continued every summer for many years. She was ages 9 through 12 during World War II and she remembered having to cover their windows with a brown covering during black out periods. Glennie’s older cousin Jan would come every summer and stay with the family and help babysit. Glennie always loved Jan from that early childhood. Jan would take them for picnics in the woods and to the park.The family loved to vacation at the ocean each summer and also spent one whole summer up near Mt. Saint Helens at Lake Merrill where they lived in a cabin and her father worked for the Forest Service.Glennie worked at her friend’s cafe in high school and worked as a switch board operator at the telephone company before school during her high school years until an ice storm came and the old phone wires broke and fell, and she was out of a job. During high school she was the secretary for her coach and wrote sports articles for the Vancouver Columbian newspaper. She also was the scorekeeper for the Football, Basketball and Baseball teams and was in the school plays. She graduated from La Center High School in 1951, and there were 24 in her graduating class. In the fall of 1951 Glennie went with her sister Char to Ellensburg, Washington to attend Central Washington College where she studied Art. In January of 1952, she met Ole Olson and they began dating. They were engaged in May of 1952 and married in La Center in August of 1952. Glennie loved Ole’s family and stayed close to his parents and his sister Shirley for the rest of their lives.Cathie was born in September of 1953, while they lived in Bothell. Caren was born in June of 1955 while they lived in Skyway. They then moved to Alki Point for Ole’s employment. In 1957 they bought a house near SeaTac airport and shortly after they moved in, Gary was born in September of 1957.In May of 1958, Glennie joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was a huge milestone in her life and the lives of many of her posterity. Because she didn’t drive, others picked her up for church. Eventually she got her drivers license and was able to be more active in her church.In February of 1959 they sold their home in Skyway and sold their home near SeaTac, and purchased a farm in Kent on five acres. Then the east hill of Kent was considered the country. Colleen was born in February 1959. Shortly after that they got some horses, (Laddy, Mike, Goldie, and Cocoa Puff.) Ole’s father, who Glennie called “Cougar” helped with getting the horses. In October 1960, Kim was born.“So we lived in our wonderful old farm house from 1959 to 1967… Living there was some of our best years.” She canned pears from the pear tree and she gave the peelings to the horses, who loved them. They had a dog named Bobalouie and a cat named Meowny who had many litters of kittens. Cousins came over often, and Dad would saddle the horses and take them for rides. In 1967 they sold the farm and built a beautiful custom home in a subdivision about 3 miles north in Kent. A little later Glennie worked as a display case assistant at JC Penney and at Van’s furniture store. They had a dog named Panda who everyone claimed but who loved Glennie the best and would sit on the stairs and put her head through the railing moping until Glennie came home. In 1974 Glennie and Ole divorced. About that time, Glennie began taking interior design classes and then about a year later she began working at the Safeway grocery store. She was also busy with weddings, receptions, new grandchildren and graduations as her five kids were growing up.In the fall of 1978, Glennie went to the Fiji Islands to visit Cathie and family who had moved there. By now Glennie had two grandchildren, David and Juliette.. She spent three weeks with them. In 1979, Cathie and her family moved back from Fiji and came to live with Glennie. Their friend Denise and her husband Francis set Glennie up with Denise’s father, Jack Hinkle who was a widower with four adult children. Later, she ran into him at a dance and they began dating. They were married on May 10, 1980 in Manti, Utah. The day they returned from their honeymoon, May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted. Jack was a real jewel of a guy and he treated Glennie wonderfully. They were very happy. Incidentally, they discovered that Jack was the salesman who came to their house and sold Glennie her first Kirby vacuum cleaner 13 years earlier.Because Jack was a Kirby distributor, they went on some very nice trips to Denver, Chicago, Las Vegas, Reno, Arkansas, and a cruise to Mexico. She also traveled to Colorado, Texas, New Mexico, Calgary, Florida, Missouri, Arizona, California, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana, to help her children with the birth of new grandchildren, and for special occasions. They also worked with Asian refugees at their church. Some jobs Mom had during this time were working at the Downtown Renton Antique Mall, and as an antique dealer, a real estate agent, and a helper at Jacks’s Vac Shoppe. She also helped her mother, as she got into her 90s and could no longer take care of herself.In 2004 , Glennie and Jack sold their house in Kent and bought a new home in Allyn, Washington. They left all of their stuff in their new home and left for a mission to the Family History Center in Salt Lake City in 2004. They loved their mission, made many new friends and learned a lot. When they returned in September of 2005, they settled into their new home in Allyn, Washington, and learned to love the people in their church and neighborhood there.Jack was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2008, and Glennie helped him through the chemo and procedures. He died in September of 2009. Though she was very sad, she was strong and adjusted to life without him.Glennie spent many happy days at the lake house, when kids and grandkids had their lake week each year, and when the girls had their ‘sisters week,’ She loved to sit by the window and watch the eagle and the osprey, the ducks and the birds on Benson lake. “One of my favorite things to do is to be with my family at my daughter’s little vacation home by a lake in Mason County.”In 2013, Glennie sold her house in Allyn, and moved back to Kent to be near Cathie and Gary and several grandchildren, and she lived in a small apartmentIn 2016, Glennie’s friend Anne Schneider was serving as a missionary at the Polynesian Cultural Center, in Laie, Hawaii. Two of Glennie’s daughters decided to take her to Hawaii for a week, since she’d never been there. It was a memorable trip.In 2018 she moved to Radcliffe Place senior living apartments in Kent, where she had a lovely apartment, and had two meals fixed for her each day.In the fall of 2023, Glennie’s children took her on a trip for her 90th birthday to Camano Island, north of Everett,. It was a beautiful spot.In January of 2024, Glennie was sick for several weeks, and it became apparent, that she wouldn’t be able to live alone. At the same time, her daughter Cathie invited Glennie to come live with her. It was a wonderful set up for her where she could look out at Cathie’s backyard, and watch the birds, the cats, and the squirrels. Also, Cathie is a great cook and she provided lovely meals. It couldn’t have been a better situation for Glennie in her last years. In April of this year Glennie fell, and she was hospitalized for two weeks, It became apparent that she was not going to get better, Cathie offered to have her come home to her house with the help of Hospice. Though it was extremely difficult, between the five of us “kids”, and Gwen, Julie and Jennifer, and the help of Hospice, we were able to keep her at home until she passed on Tuesday, May 19, 2026, surrounded by family. Glennie was proceeded in death by her husband Jack, her father and mother, her sister Char, her brothers Eddie, and Rod, her grandson John and great grandson Baby Usaia. She has five children, 18 grandchildren, 63 great grandchildren, and 3 great great grandchildren.Funeral Services for Glennadyne Jessie Rhodes “Glennie” Hinkle will be Thursday, June 11, 2026 at 12 noon at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints meetinghouse at 24419 94th Ave. South, Kent, Washington 98030-4746. Visiting with the family will be at 11:30 a.m. prior to the church service. Graveside Services will be held on Friday, June 12 at 12 noon at the La Center Cemetery in La Center, Washington.