Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

William R. Gilliland

April 22, 1912 - Feb. 1, 1994

 

South Bend Tribune 2/1/1994

MISHAWAKA - William R. Gilliland, 81, of West 16th Street, died at 1:34 a.m. today in St. Joseph Hospital of natural causes. Mr. Gilliland retired in 1973 after 40 years with Dodge Division of Reliance Electric Co. He was born April 22, 1912, in Mishawaka.

 

On April 26, 1941, in Elkhart, he married Marna J. Scheibley. She survives with a son, David J. of Mishawaka, and a grandchild. He was a Navy veteran of World War II and a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 360 and Masonic Lodge 130.

 

Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday in Bubb Funeral Chapel North, 3910 N. Main St. Burial will be in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Osceola. Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday in the funeral home.

 

South Bend Tribune 2/2/1994

MISHAWAKA - Services for William R. Gilliland, 81, of West 16th Street, who died at 1:34 a.m. Tuesday in St. Joseph Hospital, will be at 11 a.m. Thursday in Bubb Funeral Chapel North, 3910 N. Main St. Burial will be in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Osceola. Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. today in the funeral home, where Masonic Lodge 130 will conduct services at 7:30 p.m.