Date of birth: 10 Sep 1903
Date of death: 16 Apr 1962

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Burial Information

Section 09 (Click Here for Section Map)
Cemetery: Odd Fellows Cemetery
Plot: 0339-04
Status: Occupied

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Notes

Obituary

Doug Gilmore Dies Of Heart Attack

Douglas Eugene Gilmore, well known Lexington mechanic and farmer, died suddenly at his home early Monday morning of a heart attack. He was 58.

Mr. Gilmore worked as a mechanic for Weathersby Chevrolet-Buick Company for many years before failing health forced his retirement. He was a member of the Oregon Memorial Methodist Church.

Funeral services were held from the Southern Funeral Home Chapel in Lexington at 2:00 p. m. on Tuesday with the Rev. Crawford Ray of officiating.

Interment was in Odd Fellows Cemetery, with Southern in charge of arrangements.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Julia Barrentine Gilmore, Lexington; a son, William E. (Billy) Gilmore, Lexington and Greenwood; three brothers, J. E. Gilmore, Birmingham. Alabama, J. J. Gilmore, Durant and Claude Gilmore, Morton; two sisters, Mrs. H. B. Moss, Vicksburg and Mrs. Nona Maxwell, Jackson.

Pallbearers were employees of Weathersby’s as follows: Norman Weathersby, Frank Hughes, Bill McLellan, Edgar Gwin, Billy Upchurch, Roy Spell, Boyd Moss, Hilton Holley, Earl Ellis, Vernon Hathcock, Roy Young, Mack Grantham, John McBride, Z. D. Spell and Dan Pepper, also Paul Weems.

The Lexington Advertiser (Lexington, MS)
April 19, 1962, vol. 125, no. 3, pg. 1

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Family Members

Parents
William Franklin Gilmore
1873–1943

Effie Elizabeth Edwards Gilmore
1872–1959

Siblings
Elizabeth Howard "Lizzie" Gilmore
1899–1923

Nona Gilmore Maxwell
1905–1978

Maye W. Moss
1909–2007

William Claude Gilmore
1918–1994

Spouse
Julia Barrentine Gilmore
1910–1986

Children
William Everett "Billy" Gilmore
1933–1977

More information, family relationships, and images may be found by CLICKING HERE (external link)

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