Obit of Gilbert, Vita - McIntosh County OK Thanks to http://www.amarillonet.com/ for permission to upload their obits to the USGenWeb Archives. Copyright, http://www.amarillonet.com/ 18 Sep 2005 Return to McIntosh County Archives: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ok/mcintosh/mcintosh.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Amarillo Globe News 12 Mar 1998 Vita Gilbert Vita Gilbert, of Amarillo, died Tuesday, March 10, 1998. Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Friday in Checotah Cemetery in Checotah, Okla. Local arrangements are by Schooler Funeral Home Inc., 4100 S. Georgia St. Arrangements in Oklahoma are by Merritt Funeral Service in Eufaula, Okla. Mrs. Gilbert was born in Dierks, Ark. She lived in Bell, Calif., for 36 years before moving to Amarillo eight years ago. She worked for Ball Drug Co. in California. She was Methodist. Mrs. Gilbert was preceded in death by her husband, Jim Gilbert, in 1947; and by a son, Dalton Gilbert, in 1995. Survivors include two daughters, Billie Jean Keith of Amarillo and Marilyn Cogburn of Broken Bow, Okla.; a son, James W. Gilbert of Tuskahoma, Okla.; two sisters, Nell Lord Strasner of Kittery, Maine, and Hope Jessup of Conway, Ark.; a brother, Douglas Townsend of Lake Isabell, Calif.; 10 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and two greatgreat-grandchildren. Amarillo Globe-News, 12 Mar 1998 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to McIntosh County Archives: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ok/mcintosh/mcintosh.html