Ouachita County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....GARTMAN, BILLIE PORTER June 13, 2015
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News Star World - June 21, 2015
BILLIE PORTER GARTMAN


Billie Porter Gartman , age 91, was born in Jacksboro, Texas on July 20, 1923, 
to Lillian and Thomas Rose Porter. The family, which included three older 
sisters, lived in different locations in Texas, Mississippi, and Louisiana, 
following Mr. Porter's employment supervising highway and bridge construction 
throughout the region. She graduated in 1940 from Bastrop High School, after 
which she attended business school. She then lived and worked for several years 
in the Shreveport/Bossier City area until her marriage when she moved to 
Columbia.

In 1947 she married David Miner Gartman, a Columbia native and the manager/ 
owner of Gartman Motor Company, a business which he took over following his 
father F.C. Gartman's untimely death. Gartman Motor Company later became Ward 
Chevrolet-Oldsmobile.

They lived for a brief time on Hearns Island, before moving to the home they 
built in Columbia in 1950, where she resided until her death on June 13, 2015. 
Billie and David raised their two daughters and son with great love in a home 
filled with joy and laughter. One of her greatest pleasures in life was seeing 
the many friends and family who passed through her always open and welcoming 
front door.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband David Miner Gartman, Sr. 
and her sisters Mildred Richardson, Miriam Henderson, and Madge Adams. She is 
survived by her sister-in-law Frances Gartman Holladay of Springhill, her son 
David Miner Gartman and wife Mary of Atlanta, GA; daughter Donna Gartman 
Schultz and husband Paul of Gig Harbor, WA, and daughter Susan Kay Gartman of 
Columbia. She also is survived by three grandsons, David Porter Schultz and 
wife Emily, Jackson Andrew Gartman, and Lucas David Gartman, as well as her 
great granddaughter Elinor Clara Schultz.

The family wishes to express their heartfelt thanks to her kind and faithful 
care-givers over the last few years of her life that enabled her to remain in 
her cherished home.

Funeral services will be held at 10:00 am Wednesday June 24 from the sanctuary 
of First United Methodist Church of Columbia with interment to follow in the 
Old Bethel Cemetery at Clarks. The family will receive guests on Tuesday June 
23 at the Riser Funeral Home located at 7131 U S Highway 165, Columbia; from 
5:00 pm until 7:00 pm.

Pallbearers include: Steve Sherman, Peter Adams, Jack McCants, Greg Copeland, 
David Schultz and Jack Gartman.

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