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In Memory Of Our Poets

Edith Gloria Goodson (Pitts Kelley) (1927-1998) - Class Of 1944

Gloria Goodson Pitts Kelley

The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Reneau Goodson, Gloria graduated from Sidney Lanier High School in Montgomery Alabama, and attended Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia.  She continued her studies at the University of Alabama where she was a member of Chi Omega Sorority and where she was a campus favorite.

Gloria married first Wallace Screws Pitts, and they had two children:

Wallace Screws Pitts, III

Emily Ann Pitts Glaser

Grandchildren:

Richard G. Poff

Jennifer L. Pitts

W. Shepherd Pitts

Great granddaughter:

Sarah K. Poff

Wallace passed away in 1965, and in 1972, Gloria married Thomas E. Kelley.  She and Thomas lived in Millbrook, Alabama until her death.

Gloria passed away Friday, December 11, 1998.

From Many of the Descendants of William Fitzpatrick and Celia Anne Phillips
By Minna Dent Roth Hill