Glenda Renee LaCoy

Glenda Page LaCoy passed away peacefully in her home on July 4, 2010 after a short but intense battle with Lung Cancer; she was forty-eight years old. Glenda was born in Fort Bening, Georgia at Martin Army Hospital as the third child to Donald and Maxine "Betty" Page of Trout Lake, Michigan. She attended and graduated from Rudyard Schools in 1979, where she played basketball and excelled in welding. Glenda married Brian Vogel in 1981 and went on to spend the next fifteen years living the life of an Army wife, returning to Fort Bening where she welcomed her son, Brian in 1983 and traveling overseas to Germany where she gave birth to her daughter Ashley in 1986. While living on Base at Fort Drum in Watertown, New York, among several places she traveled while Vogel was in the service, Glenda kept herself busy by cleaning base housing and being Government Housing Assistant Site Mayor, helping with the organization of community block parties and other such events for base youth. The marriage dissolved in 1996, but the two maintained an amicable relationship. Glenda was working for Kewadin Casinos in the motor pool department as a bus cleaner when she met her second husband, Frank "JR" LaCoy Jr. After a ten year courtship, she and LaCoy married in a simple ceremony on March 20, 2004. She gained three step-children, Brandi, David and Daniel. Glenda was known for her fantastic cooking skills, great parties and cake decorating skills. All three of which had been passed on to her by her own mother. Also for her willingness to give you the shirt off her back if you needed it, often putting other needs ahead of her own. She had a great sense of humor and loved to spend time with friends and family during camping trips at Soldier''s or Trout Lake or by playing a simple game of cribbage, watching sporting events, particularly Football and NASCAR in which she favored Dale Earnhardt Jr., during holiday meals or just having a beer on a Friday night. Glenda loved many things but none perhaps more than her children. She often spent hours on the phone with her son and many nights watching Crime TV shows such as Forensic Files and The First 48 with her daughter. She often told her friends that her gray hairs were from her children but when all was said and done she got off pretty lucky raising two children without too many big problems. She was preceded in death by her mother, Maxine "Betty" Page, twin sisters, Pamela and Tamila Page, father-in-law Frank LaCoy Sr., sister-in-law Tracy LaCoy and one of her Boston Terriers, Baxter. Glenda was survived by her husband, JR LaCoy, daughter, Ashley (Chad) Macklin, father, Donald Page all of Sault Ste. Marie, MI, as well as son, Brian Vogel of Dallas Texas, brother, John (Joy) Page of Marquette, MI, and sister Glennis (Paul) Sewell of Gaylord and Ionia, MI, nieces Nicole and Sarah Page of Marquette, MI, nephews Paul and Josh Sewell, of Gaylord and Ionia, MI and step children, Brandi Ellis and David LaCoy of Santa Barbara, CA and Daniel LaCoy of Hawaii. She was also survived by mother-in-law Florence "Molly" LaCoy, brother-in-law, John LaCoy, sister-in-law, Robin Jackson, and sister-in-law and close friend, Karen LaCoy as well as Nieces, Madeline LaCoy, and Angela Jackson, nephews, Scott, Michael, and Taylor LaCoy all of Sault Ste. Marie, MI, niece and nephew Trena and Trevor Mounts of Florida as well as two beloved Boston Terriers, Namoosh and Bristol. There are no services planned at this time. Clark Bailey Newhouse Funeral Home is assisting the family with arrangements.

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Glenda Renee LaCoy

October 23, 1961 - July 4, 2010