Miller County Georgia Obituaries - Mrs. J. B. Gilbert 1957
Submitted by Brenda King McNair Bmcnair614@aol.com
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Mrs. J. B. Gilbert Passes December 14

Funeral services were held at Union Baptist Church in Miller County Saturday 
afternoon for Mrs. J. B. Gilbert, 83, who died Saturday at the home of her 
daughter, Mrs. Crawford Sheffield.  The Rev. Ralph Graves and the Rev. Martin 
Gilbert officiated, and interment was in the church cemetery with Colquitt 
Funeral Home in charge.

Pall bearers were grandsons and included Lamar and Harold Cooper, Lavon and 
Glen Sheffield, Charles and Wayne DuBose.

Mrs. Gilbert, the former Alice Loyless, was a native of Miller County.  She 
had resided with her children since the death of Mr. Gilbert in 1947, making 
her home with Mrs. Crawford Sheffield for several years.  She was a member of 
Salem Freewill Baptist Church in Miller County.  She was a faithful wife, 
devoted mother and a loyal Christian expressing her faith in Christ wherever 
she went.  Her home going will leave a vacancy in the family circle but their 
loss is Heaven's gain.

Survivors include four sons, J. A. Odom of Dade City, Fla., R. W. Odom, 
Arcadia, Fla., C. H. Odom, New York City, and Willie Gilbert, Arcadia, Fla.; 
three daughters, Mrs. Crawford Sheffield and Mrs. W. T. Cooper, Colquitt, and 
Mrs. Buford DuBose of Lucile Community of Miller County; 23 grandchildren, 28 
great-grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews.

The family has the sympathy of many friends in their sorrow and grief.

Source:  Miller County Liberal # 16, Colquitt, Miller Co., GA, Friday, 
December 20, 1957.

*Note*  Martha Alice Loyless was daughter of Carter Loyless and Lucenda Jane 
McMillian.  She was born 13 February 1874 and died 14 December 1957.  She 
married James H. Odom abt 1890 and married second Joseph Brown Gilbert 09 
December 1906 in Miller Co., GA Book E, page 7.

Submitted by: Brenda King McNair <Bmcnair614@aol.com>