Biography:
Gladys May Newman
1916 –01/02/1940
Gladys May Newman

Plot 974 Gladys May Newman (née East) (1916-1940)
Gladys was born Gladys May in 1916 to Frank and Emily (née Williamson) East.
Her father was a “grocer also upholsterer” according to the 1921 census and was a furniture dealer. The family lived at 8, Castle Street
She married Abraham John Newman in Berkhamsted in June 1938. The Bucks Examiner report revealed that they were married at Berkhamsted High Street Methodist church and that the bridegroom was from Chesham. Gladys wore a “charming wedding gown of white brocade with veil and headdress of orange blossom” and carried a shower bouquet of red roses. Her four attendants wore “dainty dresses of crepe suede in respective tones of mauve, gold, turquoise and pink” and carried bouquets of sweet peas. The reception was held at the Old Mill House Hotel, Berkhamsted before the couple left for “their new home at Ley Hill [in Chesham].” Among the presents was a canteen of cutlery from the bride’s fellow workers in the Banker Envelope department at John Dickinson’s, Apsley Mills.
Tragically, after this romantic beginning to her marriage, Gladys died less than two years later at the age of 23 at the Herts and Bucks sanatorium, Rotherfield Peppard, Henley on Thames. This was a hospital specialising in chest diseases, especially TB.
Her parents are buried in plot 911.

in the cemetery
Plot 974 Gladys May Newman (née East) (1916-1940)
Gladys was born Gladys May in 1916 to Frank and Emily (née Williamson) East.
Her father was a “grocer also upholsterer” according to the 1921 census and was a furniture dealer. The family lived at 8, Castle Street
She married Abraham John Newman in Berkhamsted in June 1938. The Bucks Examiner report revealed that they were married at Berkhamsted High Street Methodist church and that the bridegroom was from Chesham. Gladys wore a “charming wedding gown of white brocade with veil and headdress of orange blossom” and carried a shower bouquet of red roses. Her four attendants wore “dainty dresses of crepe suede in respective tones of mauve, gold, turquoise and pink” and carried bouquets of sweet peas. The reception was held at the Old Mill House Hotel, Berkhamsted before the couple left for “their new home at Ley Hill [in Chesham].” Among the presents was a canteen of cutlery from the bride’s fellow workers in the Banker Envelope department at John Dickinson’s, Apsley Mills.
Tragically, after this romantic beginning to her marriage, Gladys died less than two years later at the age of 23 at the Herts and Bucks sanatorium, Rotherfield Peppard, Henley on Thames. This was a hospital specialising in chest diseases, especially TB.
Her parents are buried in plot 911.