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CHARLOTTE SUE GILTON, BORN: 2/22/1943 IN CORCORAN CALIFORNIA.
I, Bradley Gilton, her oldest brother, remember when she was born.
BORN TO WILLIAM HURSHEL GILTON AND LENNIE SUSAN (ROWE) GILTON
Charlotte joined her family going to Church and Sunday School as soon as she was able
to travel to the Corcoran Church of The Nazarene where she attended many years.
Charlotte started public school in Corcoran, Ca. 1948 at Mark Twain Elementary
School which was three blocks from our home at 1913 South Josephine. She finished
high school at Tulare Western High School in Tulare, Ca. She continued her education
At C.O.S., Visalia, Ca. for two years and then went on to Fresno State to complete her
Education degree in 1964. However, Charlotte got her first job working for her
Brother, Neil, at his A&W Rootbeer Drive-in where she met a young Gary Gunderman,
who was stationed at the Fairfield, Ca. Air Force Base.
On Sept., 5, 1964, she married Gary Lee Gunderman in Haviland, Ohio. To that union
was born on Feb. 13, 1967 twin boys, Damon Lee Gunderman and Bradley Scott
Gunderman.
Charlotte and her family moved to Waukena, Ca. in 1968 and Gary started farming with
Charlotte’s step father, the late Jack Fossett. Charlotte worked for Waukena School
District for twenty five years retiring in 1998.
After the Farm was sold, Charlotte and Gary moved to Turlock and Gary went to work
for Gilton Solid Waste where he worked until his death 12/31/2003.
Charlotte was very artistic and had many talents such as decorating, sewing. She mostly
enjoyed spending time with her family and traveling.
Charlotte is survived by her children and grand children: Damon Lee and Regina
Gunderman and their children Kayla BreAnn and Nicholas Lee, Bradley Scott and his
daughter Brandee Celeste and his fiancée Juanita Arrendondo and her children Pauline
Pena and John Pena. She is survived by two sisters and their husbands: Elaine and Don
Daughtry, from Placerville, Ca. Luella and Damon Ashford from Visalia, Two brothers
Bradley and wife Beverly Gilton from Visalia, Ca. and Neil Gilton from Merced, Ca.
And also, Step Sisters Clytis and husband Bill Pitzer from Morro Bay, Dorothy and
husband Bobby Steeley from Denair, Ca. Step Brothers George and wife Sharon Fugate, from Corcoran, Ca.,
Gilbert Fossett from Venice Beach, Ca. and Lawrence Fossett from Morro Bay, Ca.
Charlotte is also survived by a sister-in law Kelly Beahrs and her husband Ken of
Fort Wayne, Indiana as well as many nieces and nephews.
The chain of events that happened in the last month are as follows: Dec 12,2009,
Charlotte woke up from the couch thinking her arm was asleep. She tried to shake it
Off. She broke out in a cold sweat. She recognized that as a sign of a heart attack
And drove herself to the Turlock Hospital. There, they verified Charlotte’s fears
and stopped the heart attack. From there, she was transferred to Doctor’s Hospital,
Modesto where they prepared to perform angioplasty on Monday 12/14. it was then that
the doctors determined Charlotte needed a bypass so they prepared her for the operation
on Thursday 12/17. She failed to wake up after the normal recovery period. After
examinations and tests, they determined that she had experienced one or more strokes
after the operation. She was beginning to respond to questions. On Monday the 21st,
I prayed with her and she began to pat my hand. She understood and was responding. I knew then that she had made her peace with God
On Tues, she was better and more responsive. They removed the breathing tube and she
was trying to talk. On Wed. 12/23, she had a great day she was talking to the nurses and
Elaine. They began making arrangements for progress .Then on Thursday, 12/24,
something happened, Elaine, seated in the waiting room, heard a call, “code blue 275.”
Elaine called, room 275 was Charlotte’s room. She knew it was not good.
Her blood pressure dropped very low. The doctors put the breathing tube back in and
hooked up the pacemaker. Her kidneys and liver had all but shut down.
she was not responding. We spent the night there with her. On Friday 12/25 it was
apparent that she was very low. They tried to clean her blood on the dialysis machine, but
it kept clogging up. On Sat, 12/26/09 the doctors removed the breathing tube. She was
gone. She fought the good fight, and, God called her home! Now Charlotte is in Heaven.
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