Eloise (Williamson) Pillans

Eloise Pillans, 86, of Corsicana passed away Friday, Jan. 18, 2002 in
Corsicana.

Visitation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday at Griffin-Roughton Funeral
Home.

Services will be 11 a.m. Monday at Griffin-Roughton Chapel with Steve Orbison
and Russell Bankes officiating. Interment will follow at Resthaven Memorial
Park.

Pallbearers will be Ken Akers, George Aldama, Bill Roughton, Alfred Dickey,
John Brown and Gene Robinson.

Mrs. Pillans was born Nov. 1, 1915 in Fairfield to William Frank and Victoria
Elizabeth Love Williamson. She was a 1933 graduate of Fairfield High School and
continued her education at Baylor University in Waco receiving her bachelor's
and master's degree in education. She was a career teacher starting in
Freestone County, later moving to Corsicana teaching third grade at Travis
Elementary. In 1960, she became elementary coordinator of the Corsicana public
schools and worked in the Head Start program. She retired in 1982.

On Sept. 25, 1943, she married Jack Pillans in Glen Rose. She was a founding
member of North Beaton Church of Christ in Corsicana, teaching various Sunday
school classes.

She was preceded in death by her brother, W. F. Williamson Jr. of Corpus
Christi; and sister, Doris E. Williamson of Corsicana.

Survivors include her husband, Jack Pillans of Corsicana; son and
daughter-in-law, Phil and Lynda Pillans of Dallas; granddaughters, Stacie
Pillans Karl and husband Bob of Houston, and Julie Pillans of Dallas; and
numerous nieces and nephews.

Arrangements by Griffin-Roughton Funeral Home.