Mary Adele Zent's Obituary
Mary Adele Zent was peacefully called home by her Savior early Sunday morning, the day before her 87th birthday. Adele was born March 12th 1925 in Wray, Colorado. She was the oldest of three children born to Leroy Gant and Lorena Stewart Gant. Her younger sister was Dorothy Ardell and her little brother Richard Patrick.
Adele’s father died when she was ten and the little family moved to Aurora Colorado and then to Miami Florida where Adele started the sixth grade. She graduated from Miami High in 1943 and always said that her whole graduating class marched off to war. She attended Florida State College for Women, now Florida State University in Tallahassee for two years before marrying handsome Army gunner Alfred Reese Zent on June 10th 1945. The young couple moved west to Tucson, AZ to start college under the GI bill and where their first son Michael Robert was born in 1947. Her husband was called back to service with the Army during the Berlin Blockade. Their second son Ronald Alan was born Adele moved to Escondido, CA in 1967 following her divorce and started teaching second grade at Lincoln Elementary School for 7 years. She loved the people at Lincoln Avenue Baptist Church where she attended for 15 years and sang in the choir. She belo Adele suffered with a rare auto immune disease called Scleroderma and she most likely lived with this chronic illness longer than anyone on record. Donations can be made in her memory to www.Scleroderma.org. Adele will be laid to rest at Bluebonnet Hills in Colleyville Texas, where her mother and sister are also buried.
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