Obit: Sibyl Smith Gilmore, 2000 Lincoln Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by: Dorothy Rinehart Taylor,
111 Racove Drive, West Monroe, LA 71291




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The Ruston Daily Leader, Sunday, March 28, 2000

Sibyl Smith Gilmore

Services for Sibyl Smith Gilmore, 93, of Epps, LA were held Saturday,
March 25, 2000 at 2:00 p.m. in the Epps Baptist Church in Epps, LA with
Rev.,Jason Cole officiating.

Interment was in Epps Cem-etery under the direction of Cox Funeral Home
of Delhi, LA.

Mrs. Gilmore died March 24, 2000 in the Richland Parish hos-pital in
Delhi, LA.

Mrs. Gilmore was born in Weston, LA to Dr. Neal Dwight Smith and Leam
Oxford Smith.  She married Clarence W. Gilmore on February 11,  1928 in
Jonesboro, LA.  She was a retired high school math teacher
and homemaker.  She was a member of the Epps Baptist Church, a 1925
graduate of Weston High School and a 1930 graduate of La.  Tech
University.  She taught high school math for 33 years, 27 of them at
Epps High School.  She and Mr. C. W. cel-ebrated 72 faithful years
together in February of this year.

She was preceded in death by her parents; brothers, Gordon Smith and Joe
Smith, and a sis-ter, Helen Moore.

Survivors include her hus-band, Clarence W. Gilmore of Epps, LA; a son
and daughter-in--law Joe William and Jo Ann Gilmore of Ruston, LA; a
daughter and son-in-law, Sibyl Ann and William G. Leach of New Orleans,
LA; one brother, N. D. Smith of Weston, LA; one sister, Ruth Strain of
Delhi, LA; five grand-children and six great grandchil-dren.

Pallbearers were Bobby Cleve-land, Inmon Powell, Virgil Johnson, Frank
White, Douglas Fairchild and Dennis Labatt.

Honorary pallbearer was C. E. Corley.

Any planned memorials may be made to the Epps Baptist Church.