Ida Gilmore

GILMORE

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Date: 1/20/2003 at 15:14:25

Red Oak, The Sun, October 11, 1951

Mrs. Ida Gilmore Buried Here Tuesday

Funeral services were held Tuesday, Oct. 9, at 2 p.m. at the Perryman Chapel for Mrs. Ida Gilmore, 89, who died Saturday Oct. 6, at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Lelia Dirrim, at Fremont, Neb. She has suffered with a heart ailment for two and one-half weeks.

Rev. Lloyd A. Lattis of the First Methodist church was the officianting minister. Pall bearers were Carl J. Carlson, Thomas F. Kirby, Martin O. Johnson, Claude Griffith, Veimer Johnson and Lester Hollingsworth. Music was by Douglas Johnson, soloist, and Mrs. Ray Cozad, organist. Burial was in Evergreen cemetery, Red Oak.

Ida Idella Gilmore was born in Saratoga, N. Y., Dec. 3, 1861, the daughter of William and Emiline Thompson. When a small child she moved with her family to Appanoose county, Iowa. She was married in 1883 to Louis R. Gilmore and spent most of her married life on a farm in Grant township. In recent years she has lived with two daughters in Indianapolis, Ind.

She is survived by a son, Frank B. Gilmore, of Red Oak; three daughters; Nettie C. and Leona M. Gilmore, of Indianapolis; Mrs. Lelia A. Dirrim, of Fremont, Neb., a niece, Mrs. Earl M. Miller, who was reared in the home as a daughter, and four grandsons. A brother, A. E. Thompson, of Katy, Tex., also survives.

Mrs. Gilmore was a member of the Methodist church.