Obit of Gilliland, Reba Keahey - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma

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::Groom Cemetery--Groom TX

Reba Keahey Gilliland

PAMPA - Reba Keahey Gilliland, 96, died Tuesday, Oct. 5, 1999.

Graveside services will be at 3 p.m. Thursday in Groom Cemetery with the 
Rev. Byron Williamson, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Groom, 
officiating. Arrangements are by CarmichaelWhatley Funeral Directors of 
Pampa.

Mrs. Gilliland was born in Indian Territory, Oklahoma. She lived in 
Crawford, Okla., for 40 years and moved to Pampa in 1992. She was one of 
the first telephone operators for GTE in the Texas Panhandle and was a 
Baptist.

Her first marriage was to Doy Keahey in 1922 at Cheyenne, Okla. He died in 
1951. In 1954, she married her second husband, Frank Gilliland, who died 
in 1985. She also was preceded in death by a daughter, Nadine Black, in 
1986.

Survivors include two brothers, Claybirn Ross and Veril Ross, both of 
Fritch; three sisters, Sylvia Pool of Watson, Okla., Margaret Leech of 
Tacoma, Wash., and Juanita Leddy of California; five grandchildren; 11 
great-grandchildren; seven great-great-grandchildren; and a son-in-law, 
Kenneth Black of Groom.

The family will receive friends from 6 until 7 p.m. today at the funeral 
home. They suggest memorials be to the Groom Ambulance Service.

Amarillo Daily News, Oct. 6, 1999
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