Dickens County Biographies

Lonnie and Bessie Gilmore

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Biography

Lonnie Samuel GILMORE

Born: April 16, 1895 at Dickens City, Texas

Died: May 14, 1972 in Dickens County, Texas

Father: James Howard GILMORE

Mother: Nora Lee Henrietta BARROW

Married: May 21, 1917 at Crosbyton, Texas

Spouse: Bessie Abigail NEATHERLAND 1889~ 7/26/1938

Children:
• Leonora GILMORE 3/9/1918 at Watson, TX
• Claude Vernon GILMORE 12/21/1921 at Watson, TX
• Bernie Jean GILMORE 2/17/1925 Throckmorton ~ 7/26/1938 Spur

Married: July 4, 1942 at Clarendon, TX

Spouse #2: Connie Leona BLUE ?~2/25/1957 death at Boise City, OK

Children:
• Jimmy Lonnie GILMORE 4/18/1944 at Amarillo, TX

Spouse #3: Frances CRUMP

Born: Sept 11, 1882

Died: Jan. 1976

Father: B.F. CRUMP

Others Researching This Family

No listing to date

Burial Site

Spur Memorial Cemetery
• Section C 1
• Plot 4
• Lot

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Bessie Gilmore and her daughter Bernie Jean, along with Bessie's brother Walton B. Neatherlin, all died when a train hit the car they were in on 7/26/1938.

Obituary

• Rites Read For Lonnie Gilmore Here Wednesday

Funeral rites for Lonnie Samuel Gilmore, 77, were held at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in the First Baptist Church in Crosbyton. Gilmore died about 9:30 p.m. Sunday in the Crosbyton Hospital.

The Rev. Henry Causey of Temple officiated, assisted by the Rev. Ernest Stewart of Crosbyton.

Burial was in Spur cemetery under direction of King Funeral Home.

Gilmore was a native of Dickens County and had worked most of his life as a cowboy in Dickens and Crosby Counties.

He is survived by his wife; a daughter, Mrs. Lenora Latham of Spur; two sons, Claude Gilmore of Amarillo and Jim Gilmore of Graham; two sisters, Mrs. Rose Bundrant of Pasadena and Mrs. Mellie Pendley of Orland, Calif.; 12 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren.

©Crosbyton Review, May 14, 1972

Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes

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