Gladys Verle Brannon was born in Guelph, North Dakota on February 11, 1930 to Chester "Harry" and Blanche Belle Wilmsen Engle. She was the sixth child of seven. Her siblings are: Chester "Chet" Harry Engle JR (Audrie), both are deceased, Ardith Luella Day (Hal), both are deceased, Audrie Elsie Haug (James), both deceased, Davy Kirk Engle (Mickie), Elaine Katherine Greenwood, (Don, deceased) and Janet Blanche Greenwood (Don-deceased).

While still an infant, her family moved to Hecla, South Dakota. When Gladys was in the fourth grade the family moved to Frederick, South Dakota. She lived in Frederick until she graduated from Frederick High School in 1948. She then moved to Kansas City, Missouri to attend flight attendant school. She was too short to be a stewardess so she worked at the front desk selling tickets. While in Kansas City she met and married William Holland Prindle on September 16, 1950. They had 5 children: Barbara Ann Collins (Dennis) of Henderson, Nevada, Patricia Lea Prindle (died at birth), Gloria Jean Horrocks (Lynn)of Rexburg, Idaho, William "Skip" Holland Prindle III (Nancy) of Rexburg, Idaho, and Robert Blake Prindle of Oroville, Washington.

Gladys and her family moved to Livermore, California in 1960. Gladys and Bill Prindle divorced in 1970. Later in 1970 they remarried each other and moved to Orleans, California where they owned a café. Gladys was the cook and ran the café until she and Bill Prindle divorced again in 1973.

Gladys and her two sons, Skip and Blake, then moved to McKinleyville, California where she worked in a restaurant as a cook. In McKinleyville she met Bill Brannon. Bill Brannon owned some land in Stilwell, Oklahoma, so they moved to Oklahoma and got married on August 25, 1980. They raised horses on the ranch until Bill Brannon died as the results of an accident in May 1996.

In 1997 she joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. In 1999, Gladys moved to Rexburg, Idaho where she lived with her daughter Gloria. In 2000 Gladys served a Family History mission in Salt Lake City, Utah for one year. She then returned to Rexburg and served several family history missions from home. When the Rexburg Temple was completed in 2008 she began serving in the recording office of the temple. She stopped working in the temple after suffering a heart attack in the beginning of 2015. Her health never recovered after surgery to put in a stent. She suffered from Parkinson's disease as well, which rapidly progressed after her health declined. Gladys quietly left this world on April 28, 2015 at 2:35 pm. while at her daughter Glorias' home in Rexburg, Idaho. She will forever be missed. Gladys was affectionately referred to as the "Energizer Bunny" because she was always doing and going.

Gladys has left the building.

Memorial services will be held 11:00 a.m. Saturday, May 2, 2015 at the Rexburg 19th Ward, located at 2332 W 2000 S, Rexburg. Bishop Robert Tietjen officiating.