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- Ray GILLMAN, aged eighty-four, departed this life
at his home on South First Street,
- at 11:00 o'clock Wednesday evening.
- Mr. GILLMAN was born in the Town of Turtle, near Beloit,
October 13, 1842. At
- the age of fourteen, Mr. GILLMAN moved to the town
of Porter, later being united in marriage with Miss Sarah FELLOWS,
of the town of Center, she passing to the Great Beyond ten years
ago.
- To this union there was born, two sons, Fred and Nay, of
this city and Mrs. Idell
- FRANTZ, who died at her home in Belvedere in 1924.
- In 1869, Mr. GILLMAN moved to Evansville, engaging
in the livery business from
- 1870 to 1887. In 1888 he founded the clothing business in
which he has taken an active interest until stricken with the
illness which caused his taking off. In this business he has
had associated with him his sons Fred and Nay, for a number of
years.
- Mr. GILLMAN was a member of the Masonic Fraternity,
the Knights Templars and
- the Modern Woodmen.
- The funeral services will take place at the home at 2:00
o'clock Friday afternoon, the
- Masonic lodge in charge, Rev. O. W. Smith officiating. Interment
will be at Maple Hill cemetery.
- In the passing of Ray GILLMAN Evansville loses one
of her most loved citizens. One
- who has always had the interest of his town at heart and
who in the many years of his residence here accomplished many
things for her welfare.
- It was through his efforts that the first fire company was
organized in this city in the
- year 1878, an organization of which he was a member for fifty
years being its chief for thirty-eight years.
- Mr. GILLMAN was a man of sterling integrity and high
ideals and was a man
- respected by all who knew him and had business dealings with
him. In his passing there goes from business and lodge circles
of Evansville a man which we, as citizens and brothers can ill
afford to lose. [p. 1, col. 6]
-
- Courtesy of Ruth Ann Montgomery.
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- Mr. and Mrs. Arthur JONES announce the marriage of
their daughter, Elizabeth
- Maurine, to Mr. Donovan HOPKINS Tuesday, December
21, at Rockford.
- The young couple are spending their honeymoon in Chicago
and will be at home to
- their friends at their farm near Brooklyn, after January
10.
- Both of these young people are well known in this city where
they have a host of
- friends who will wish them much happiness and joy. [p.
5, col. 3]
-
- Courtesy of Ruth Ann Montgomery.
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