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BurialGlenwood Cemetery And Chapel Mausoleum, 839 Bluff City Hwy, Bristol, Sullivan County, Tennessee470, James Pierce Gilmer
FlagsUS Navy, World War II
Obituary Online notes for James Pierce GILMER Sr.
GILMER, JAMES P. ELKTON, MD.
Funeral services for James P. Gilmer will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2001, at 2 p.m. at Lebanon Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Mike Carter officiating. The family will receive friends at 1 p.m. prior to the funeral service. A graveside service will follow at Glenwood Cemetery, Bristol, Tenn., at 4 p.m. Memorial contributions may be made to Lebanon Memorial United Methodist Church, P. O. Box 158, Lebanon, VA 24266.
Mr. Gilmer, 84, formerly of Lebanon, Va., died on Friday, Oct. 12, 2001. Born on Nov. 7, 1916, in Hansonville, Va., he was the son of the late Joseph Axley and Lou Browning Gilmer.
Mr. Gilmer graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1939 with a degree in agricultural education. Following his graduation he taught school for several years and then worked for the Department of Agriculture until his retirement in 1979. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, was a member of Lebanon Memorial United Methodist Church in Lebanon and the local Lions Club.
Survivors include his wife of 61 years, Lucy W. Gilmer of Newark, Del.; children, James P. Gilmer of Morganton, NC, and Joanne G. Barrett of North East, Md.; a brother, Hugh M. Gilmer of Elk Garden, Va.; and grandchildren, Jessica B. Koenigsberg, James P. Gilmer III, Benjamin C. Gilmer and Matthew T. Barrett. 470, James Pierce Gilmer