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Miss Alice Gilliland Dies In Sanatorum After Long Illness
BAIRD, Dec. 24. – Funeral services for Miss Alice Gilliland, former school teacher of Callahan County who died Tuesday in a Kerrville sanatorium, will be held from the Methodist church here Thursday morning at 10 o'clock. Burial will follow in the Tecumseh Cemetery, 25 miles southwest of Baird.
She will be returned here early Wednesday morning in a Wylie funeral coach, which was dispatched Tuesday from Baird on word of Miss Gilliland's death.
Miss Gilliland, eldest daughter of Mrs. M. J. Gilliland and of the late W. L. Gilliland, pioneer Callahan County rancher, was a county school teacher until ill health forced her retirement six years ago. She was also active in study and civic clubs of Baird and was and accomplished musician.
A graduate of Baird high school, she attended the old Polytechnic college at Fort Worth, later absorbed by Texas Wesleyan college.
Besides her mother, survivors include two sisters, Mrs. V. E. Hill and Mrs. Myrtle James; two nieces, Katherine James and Mrs. A. L. Osborn; and three nephews, Clifton, Lewis, and Billie James Hill of Baird. Miss Eliza Gilliland and Haynie Gilliland, publishers of the Baird Star, and Miss John Gilliland, Baird postmistress, are cousins.
Miss Alice Gilliland Dies In Sanatorum After Long Illness
BAIRD, Dec. 24. – Funeral services for Miss Alice Gilliland, former school teacher of Callahan County who died Tuesday in a Kerrville sanatorium, will be held from the Methodist church here Thursday morning at 10 o'clock. Burial will follow in the Tecumseh Cemetery, 25 miles southwest of Baird.
She will be returned here early Wednesday morning in a Wylie funeral coach, which was dispatched Tuesday from Baird on word of Miss Gilliland's death.
Miss Gilliland, eldest daughter of Mrs. M. J. Gilliland and of the late W. L. Gilliland, pioneer Callahan County rancher, was a county school teacher until ill health forced her retirement six years ago. She was also active in study and civic clubs of Baird and was and accomplished musician.
A graduate of Baird high school, she attended the old Polytechnic college at Fort Worth, later absorbed by Texas Wesleyan college.
Besides her mother, survivors include two sisters, Mrs. V. E. Hill and Mrs. Myrtle James; two nieces, Katherine James and Mrs. A. L. Osborn; and three nephews, Clifton, Lewis, and Billie James Hill of Baird. Miss Eliza Gilliland and Haynie Gilliland, publishers of the Baird Star, and Miss John Gilliland, Baird postmistress, are cousins.
Obituary
Miss Alice Gilliland Dies In Sanatorum After Long Illness
BAIRD, Dec. 24. – Funeral services for Miss Alice Gilliland, former school teacher of Callahan County who died Tuesday in a Kerrville sanatorium, will be held from the Methodist church here Thursday morning at 10 o'clock. Burial will follow in the Tecumseh Cemetery, 25 miles southwest of Baird.
She will be returned here early Wednesday morning in a Wylie funeral coach, which was dispatched Tuesday from Baird on word of Miss Gilliland's death.
Miss Gilliland, eldest daughter of Mrs. M. J. Gilliland and of the late W. L. Gilliland, pioneer Callahan County rancher, was a county school teacher until ill health forced her retirement six years ago. She was also active in study and civic clubs of Baird and was and accomplished musician.
A graduate of Baird high school, she attended the old Polytechnic college at Fort Worth, later absorbed by Texas Wesleyan college.
Besides her mother, survivors include two sisters, Mrs. V. E. Hill and Mrs. Myrtle James; two nieces, Katherine James and Mrs. A. L. Osborn; and three nephews, Clifton, Lewis, and Billie James Hill of Baird. Miss Eliza Gilliland and Haynie Gilliland, publishers of the Baird Star, and Miss John Gilliland, Baird postmistress, are cousins.
Miss Alice Gilliland Dies In Sanatorum After Long Illness
BAIRD, Dec. 24. – Funeral services for Miss Alice Gilliland, former school teacher of Callahan County who died Tuesday in a Kerrville sanatorium, will be held from the Methodist church here Thursday morning at 10 o'clock. Burial will follow in the Tecumseh Cemetery, 25 miles southwest of Baird.
She will be returned here early Wednesday morning in a Wylie funeral coach, which was dispatched Tuesday from Baird on word of Miss Gilliland's death.
Miss Gilliland, eldest daughter of Mrs. M. J. Gilliland and of the late W. L. Gilliland, pioneer Callahan County rancher, was a county school teacher until ill health forced her retirement six years ago. She was also active in study and civic clubs of Baird and was and accomplished musician.
A graduate of Baird high school, she attended the old Polytechnic college at Fort Worth, later absorbed by Texas Wesleyan college.
Besides her mother, survivors include two sisters, Mrs. V. E. Hill and Mrs. Myrtle James; two nieces, Katherine James and Mrs. A. L. Osborn; and three nephews, Clifton, Lewis, and Billie James Hill of Baird. Miss Eliza Gilliland and Haynie Gilliland, publishers of the Baird Star, and Miss John Gilliland, Baird postmistress, are cousins.
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