El Paso Co. TX - Obit for CLARA LOUISE GILLESPIE

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Submitted by: Don Brownlee
        Date: 2 June 2006
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5/31/2006  Los Angeles (CA) Daily News

CLARA LOUISE GILLESPIE Oct. 25, 1914 - May 26, 2006 Beloved wife
and mother died May 26, at the age of 91, in her home in Granada
Hills, California. Louise was born in El Paso, Texas, October 25, 1914,
and grew up in Fort Worth, Texas. She received her Bachelor's Degree
in Mathematics at Texas Christian University and her Master's Degree
in Mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin, graduating summa cum laude.
After college she worked as a Professor of Mathematics at Tarleton State College.
Later she worked on a project for the Atomic Energy Commission at Sandia
Corporation in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She then worked for many years as
a Professor of Mathematics at Los Angeles Valley College until her retirement. 
She was a volunteer at Descanso Gardens in La Canada, California, where she was 
known as "The Herb Lady" because of her extensive knowledge of herbs. She is 
survived by her husband, Edmond Stanley Gillespie; and her four children, 
Ellen Gail Boatwright, Denis Earl Grady, Edmond Stanley Gillespie, Jr., 
and Frieda Lois Gillespie. A Memorial Service will be held at Emerson Unitarian 
Universalist Church at 7304 Jordan Ave., Canoga Park, CA 91303, at 3:00 p.m., 
on June 4, 2006. There will be a reception following the service at: 17835 Minnehaha St., 
Granada Hills, CA 91344.