Submitted by: Dan Rich

Ocealess Mailey Gilliam

Feb. 21, 1962 - Dec. 10, 1998

South Bend Tribune 12/18/1998

Following a two-hour visitation from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today, funeral services for Ocealess Mailey-Gilliam will be conducted at 1 p.m. at the Cobb Funeral Home, 3525 S. Michigan Street, South Bend, with Rev. Eddie Miller of Faith Apostolic Church officiating. Interment will follow funeral ceremony at Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Osceola, Ind.

Ocealess Mailey Gilliam, 36, formerly of South Bend, Ind., died on Thursday, Dec. 10, in Bloomington, Minn. She was born on Feb. 21, 1962, in Chicago, Ill., to Doris and Bether Mailey. The family relocated to South Bend where Ocealess attended the South Bend community schools and graduated from LaSalle High School in 1981.

She and her husband Rodney moved to Minnesota approximately seven years ago. There she was employed as a nurse's assistant, a job that, to her, was very fulfilling as it allowed her to attend to and care for others. Ocealess was very family-oriented, and was often referred to as having a big heart. In fact, that's what set her apart...her warm, caring ways. Ocealess leaves to cherish her many fond memories her husband Rodney; parents, Doris and Bether Mailey of Federal Way, Wash.; three sisters, Avis Mailey and Sherry Taylor of Federal Way, Wash., and Zandra Mailey of Kent, Wash.; three brothers, Dillard Mailey of Auburn, Wash., John Mailey of Indianapolis, Ind., and Keith Mailey of South Bend; along with a host of other relatives and friends.