Gloria and Linda Marshall Blackburn were, indeed, lifelong friends and they really enjoyed their teenage years together. When I (Judy Marshall Sexton) was lucky they would let me accompany them on their outings. We always had a ball! Linda and I found a purple fingernail polish several years ago that reminded us of those years. So we bought ourselves and Gloria each a bottle - not to use, but as a remembrance. If you turn the bottle upside down, the name of it is "Back in the Gloria days".
Gloria babysat with my two children ( Christy and Karen) for about a year while I was attending vocational school. She took such good care of them, and they remember her with love.