Glenna Hundley Cannady was born August 29, 1932 in Hollis, Oklahoma, to James Byron and Ozella Wilson Hundley.

Glenna was a student and a teacher. After graduating from Hollis High School, she attended Panhandle A&M College, now Oklahoma Panhandle State University, in Goodwell, Oklahoma. She was an outstanding student and received the J.R.P. Sewell Award as the outstanding senior student. She was the first female to receive that award. Following graduation, she accepted a teaching position in Texoma, Texas. That was the beginning of a career that lasted 50 years. Glenna was a classroom teacher in the Vega, Lamesa and Greenwood, Texas public schools. She also taught and studied at Pan American University, now the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, in Edinburg, Texas, and during that time received her master’s degree in education. She then joined the Texas Education Agency’s Region One Service Center in Edinburg, and worked with classroom teachers for a number of years. Following her time at Region One, she continued instructing a new generation of teachers with Teach For America.

Glenna traveled the world: from Russia and China to South America, throughout Western Europe and Iceland, and extensively in North America. Each place she visited she saw the promise it held and the beauty of the people she met there. She always returned with a new understanding and shared her excitement with all. Glenna was a great cook, an accomplished artist and had a tremendous love of life. She had many friends and loved to entertain them in her home with good food, stories, games and always laughter.

More than anything, Glenna was proud of and loved her family. Her parents and their siblings settled in the Texas panhandle and along the western edge of Indian Territory in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Glenna took great pride in her pioneer heritage. She loved her brothers, Clarence and Lawrence, her sisters, Nettie and Melba, as well as her aunts and uncles, all of whom have gone before her. She was the last of her generation in her family and she will be sorely missed, but always loved and remembered.

Glenna is survived by her son, Gregg and wife Connie Cannady of Amarillo, Texas; grandsons Russell Cannady of Dallas, Texas; Graham and wife Molly Cannady of Dallas, Texas; Reece Cannady of Amarillo, Texas; great granddaughter Harper Lynn Cannady of Dallas, Texas; nieces Ruthie and husband Wayne Matheson of Hollis, Oklahoma and Linda and husband Murray Metcalfe of Pleasanton, Texas; nephew Gary Hundley of Abilene, Texas; former husband Alvin Cannady of Reno, Nevada; and many cousins, great nieces and nephews. She loved them all.

Visitation will be Sunday, October 23rd from 5-7 pm at Harmon County Funeral Home with graveside services on Monday, October 24th at 10am at Fairmount Cemetery in Hollis, Oklahoma.

Arrangements are under the direction of Harmon County Funeral Home, Hollis.