Havre Daily News (MT), 21 May 1998
Norma Ann Gillies, 81, a retired nurse and resident of Havre, died Tuesday May 19, 1998, at a hospital of complications due to cancer.
Prayer vigil services will be 7 pm. Thursday at the Holland & Bonine Chapel in Havre. Funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. Friday at St. Jude Catholic Church. Burial will follow at the Calvary cmetery.
Gillies was born Jan. 18, 1917, near Glasgow to Aquilla (Marsh) and Normal Boozel. She was raised in Great Falls and attended school there. She graduated from Great Falls High School and the Deaconess Hospital School of Nursing. After graduation she moved to Havre and was employed by Dr. Houtz for approximately five years.
On Oct. 25, 1941, she married Clifford E. Gillies in Havre. The couple owned and operated the Model Grocery store in Havre in the early 1950s. She was a nurse at the Havre Clinic for 25 years until her retirement.
Gillies enjoyed her family and her grandchildren. She was a member of the Northern Montana Health Care Volunteers, St. Jude Catholic Church, and St. Cabrini's Circle. Her hobbies were painting, crafts, writing, walking and playing pinochle.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Clifford E. Gillies in 1989; and brother, Dale Boozel. She is survived by two sons, a daugther, two sisters, Shirley Zablinsky of Escondido, Calif. and Pearl Pyatt of Helena; eight grandchildren and one great grandchild.
Norma Ann Gillies, 81, a retired nurse and resident of Havre, died Tuesday May 19, 1998, at a hospital of complications due to cancer.
Prayer vigil services will be 7 pm. Thursday at the Holland & Bonine Chapel in Havre. Funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. Friday at St. Jude Catholic Church. Burial will follow at the Calvary cmetery.
Gillies was born Jan. 18, 1917, near Glasgow to Aquilla (Marsh) and Normal Boozel. She was raised in Great Falls and attended school there. She graduated from Great Falls High School and the Deaconess Hospital School of Nursing. After graduation she moved to Havre and was employed by Dr. Houtz for approximately five years.
On Oct. 25, 1941, she married Clifford E. Gillies in Havre. The couple owned and operated the Model Grocery store in Havre in the early 1950s. She was a nurse at the Havre Clinic for 25 years until her retirement.
Gillies enjoyed her family and her grandchildren. She was a member of the Northern Montana Health Care Volunteers, St. Jude Catholic Church, and St. Cabrini's Circle. Her hobbies were painting, crafts, writing, walking and playing pinochle.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Clifford E. Gillies in 1989; and brother, Dale Boozel. She is survived by two sons, a daugther, two sisters, Shirley Zablinsky of Escondido, Calif. and Pearl Pyatt of Helena; eight grandchildren and one great grandchild.
Havre Daily News (MT), 21 May 1998
Norma Ann Gillies, 81, a retired nurse and resident of Havre, died Tuesday May 19, 1998, at a hospital of complications due to cancer.
Prayer vigil services will be 7 pm. Thursday at the Holland & Bonine Chapel in Havre. Funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. Friday at St. Jude Catholic Church. Burial will follow at the Calvary cmetery.
Gillies was born Jan. 18, 1917, near Glasgow to Aquilla (Marsh) and Normal Boozel. She was raised in Great Falls and attended school there. She graduated from Great Falls High School and the Deaconess Hospital School of Nursing. After graduation she moved to Havre and was employed by Dr. Houtz for approximately five years.
On Oct. 25, 1941, she married Clifford E. Gillies in Havre. The couple owned and operated the Model Grocery store in Havre in the early 1950s. She was a nurse at the Havre Clinic for 25 years until her retirement.
Gillies enjoyed her family and her grandchildren. She was a member of the Northern Montana Health Care Volunteers, St. Jude Catholic Church, and St. Cabrini's Circle. Her hobbies were painting, crafts, writing, walking and playing pinochle.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Clifford E. Gillies in 1989; and brother, Dale Boozel. She is survived by two sons, a daugther, two sisters, Shirley Zablinsky of Escondido, Calif. and Pearl Pyatt of Helena; eight grandchildren and one great grandchild.
Norma Ann Gillies, 81, a retired nurse and resident of Havre, died Tuesday May 19, 1998, at a hospital of complications due to cancer.
Prayer vigil services will be 7 pm. Thursday at the Holland & Bonine Chapel in Havre. Funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. Friday at St. Jude Catholic Church. Burial will follow at the Calvary cmetery.
Gillies was born Jan. 18, 1917, near Glasgow to Aquilla (Marsh) and Normal Boozel. She was raised in Great Falls and attended school there. She graduated from Great Falls High School and the Deaconess Hospital School of Nursing. After graduation she moved to Havre and was employed by Dr. Houtz for approximately five years.
On Oct. 25, 1941, she married Clifford E. Gillies in Havre. The couple owned and operated the Model Grocery store in Havre in the early 1950s. She was a nurse at the Havre Clinic for 25 years until her retirement.
Gillies enjoyed her family and her grandchildren. She was a member of the Northern Montana Health Care Volunteers, St. Jude Catholic Church, and St. Cabrini's Circle. Her hobbies were painting, crafts, writing, walking and playing pinochle.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Clifford E. Gillies in 1989; and brother, Dale Boozel. She is survived by two sons, a daugther, two sisters, Shirley Zablinsky of Escondido, Calif. and Pearl Pyatt of Helena; eight grandchildren and one great grandchild.
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