Gretchen Gloryetta Hamlett Obituary

We are sad to announce that, on February 8, 2023 we had to say goodbye to Gretchen Gloryetta Hamlett (San Jose, California). Leave a sympathy message to the family in the guestbook on this memorial page of Gretchen Gloryetta Hamlett to show support.

She was predeceased by: her son Colie Jaco III; her husband Zack Earl Hamlett, Jr.; her daughter Carla Colice Jaco-West; her mother Catherine Carr Curtis; her siblings, Ellen M. Edwards, Robert A. Jackson, Jr. and Floyd Jackson McGee; and her grandson Winston William Jaco Jr..

She is survived by: her great-uncle Henry; her aunt Julia Slaughter; her former husband Carl Colie Jaco; her children, Pat Gloryetta Jaco, Carl Colie Jaco, IV (Ivy), Winston William Jaco, Sr. (Kerry) and Gretchen; her sisters, Roxanna Mayes, Rosalind Miller and Myrtle Curtis; her grandchildren, Shelly Quintana, Willie Earl West, Nateka West, Dianne Jaco, Dana Jaco and Taunya Jaco; Zack Earl Hamlett III, Bruce G. (Hamlett), Diane Cooper, Stephanie Stevenson and Reginald Hamlett. She is also survived by great grandchildren, nieces, nephews and extended family and friends.

In 1993 - 1994, under the leadership of Rev. Leon Howard Sullivan's International Foundation for Education and Self-Help (IFESH) program, Gretchen and Zack spent 10 ½ months in the Gambia, West Africa as Teachers for Africa.