Gladys Elgie (Stone) Soroka Parkhurst, 95, died December 22, 2007 in Whitingham, VT. She was the widow of Rev. Dr. John Q. Parkhurst, a retired UU minister from Joliet, IL, who died in 1989. Her first husband, John E. Soroka, a tool and die maker at Ford Motors, died in 1977. She worked for four decades as a nurse in Detroit. Late in her career she served as a medical evaluator in the Levels of Care Program, inspecting nursing homes. In 1983 she returned to her birth state of Vermont. She was an active volunteer in the historical societies of southeastern Vermont and traced her ancestry to John and Priscilla Alden. She is survived by her daughters, Sherry Duff and Mary Frame, a brother, five grandsons and two great grandsons.