Bob Jessie Gilman of Unionville, prominent longtime resident of Dyer county, died at his home at 5:30 0-clock this morning. He was 89.
Mr. Gilman's body is lying in state at his home at Unionville until time for funeral services. Final rites will be said at three o'clock tomorrow afternoon,Wednesday, at the Mt. Vernon Baptist Church at Unionville. His pastor, the Reverend Tommy Rose, and the Reverend E.C. Cutlipp, will officiate.
Burial will be in the Mt. Vernon Cemetery with Bud Baker, Joe Borum, Murray Borum and Raymond Jennings, R.P. Mahon and Roy Hall serving as pallbearers. J.W. Curry and Sons will have charge of arrangements.
Born in Virginia, Mr. Gilman was the son of C.P. Gilman and Letitia Houston Gilman, natives of Virginia. He had spent the past 70 years of his life in Dyer county where he was active in religious, civic and political affairs of the community,county and state. He was a deacon of Mt. Vernon Baptist Church. His wife, Mrs. Mollie Mahon Gilman, died in 1955.
He is survived by two daughters, Miss Ruth Gilman, Unionville, and Mrs. C. D. Gean, Blythville, Arkansas; a son, O.B. Gilman, Memphis; two sisters, Mrs. Elma Baker, Dyersburg and Mrs. Lizzie Wagster, Unionville; three grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
