Obit of Gillespie, Edna Paulene Harris (g421) - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 14 Jul 2002 Return to Roger Mills Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Surnames: Gillespie, Harris, Burk, Miller, Rupe Edna Paulene Gillespie, 94, died Tuesday morning February 20, 1990, at Clovis High Plains Hospital. Mrs. Gillespie was born February 8, 1896 in Tingley, Iowa, to the home of Lizzie and Joseph Harris. As a small child, she moved to Kansas, and a few years later moved to Oklahoma, where she grew up. In Cheyenne, Oklahoma, on January 27, 1917, she was married to Roy Gillespie. The family moved to Portales in 1937. Except for bried periods of time, this has been her home since. She was a member of Emmanuel Baptist Church. She is survived by three sons, Dale C. Gillespie, Oakdale, California, Delmer Gillespie, Portales and Bennie J. Gillespie, Los Alamos; by two daughters, Charlotte Burk, Yucaipa, California, and Floretta Miller, Lubbock; by 13 grandchildren, 15 great grandchildren and one great-great grandchild. She was preceded in death by one son, Leonard Gillespie, who died in 1985; by a daughter, Theda Mae Rupe, who died in 1977; by her parents, two brothers and a sister; and by her husband, Roy, who died in November 1959. Services were held Thursday February 22, 1990 at 10:30 a.m. in the Wheeler Starlight Chapel with Rev. Jim Horton officiating. Burial was in the Portales Cemetery. Pallbearers were Mark Miller, Bob Gillespie, Ben Gillespie, Danny Burnett, Troy Clark and Claud McAfee. Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Roger Mills Archives http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html