Glorioustean “Gloria” Veals, the “first lady” of City Church in Tulia, died Aug. 18. She was 74. She was born May 30, 1949, in Liberty, Miss., to Charlie and Gracie Powell Faust. She attended Prentiss Junior College in Prentiss, Miss., receiving a certificate in education. She and Matthew Veals married March 15, 1971, in New Orleans. They moved to Houston in 1975, where she worked first as a seamstress and then in the radiology department at Methodist Hospital. In 1980, they moved to Tulia, and she worked in retail. Her last job was working 15 years at Panhandle Transit until her retirement. She served faithfully in the community outreach program at City Church, where her husband is pastor, and she cooked many meals for the children who benefited from its ministry. Gloria loved to sew for her friends, who knew she had a big heart to help anyone in need. She also was supportive and eager to help in the activities of Caprock Plains Baptist Association. She was preceded in death by her sisters, Dorothy Hunt and Hattie Rose Faust; and a brother, George Faust. She is survived by her husband Matthew Veals; daughter, Mecca Perkins and husband Greg of Waco; son Albert Knighten and wife Monica of Baton Rouge, La; seven grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; brothers Arthur Ben Faust and Roscoe Faust of Houston, Charlie E. Faust of Oxnard, Calif., and Charlie Faust Jr. of Liberty, Miss.; sisters, Betty Faust of Kenner, La., Rita Davis of New Orleans, Yelva Washington of Glenburnie, Md., and Cephus Winding of Liberty, Miss.
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