Extracted from The Port Arthur News (Port Arthur, TX)
Wednesday, November 7, 1973

EDWARD GILCREASE

Edward Gilcrease, Rt. 1 Box 86 J. Starks, La., 67, born in Sabine Parish, La. was Dead on Arrival at 9:10 a.m. Tuesday at Vinton Hospital. He lived in Port Arthur from 1952 to 1972. He was a retired Jefferson County Employee. He was a member of Baptist Faith and Woodmen of the World.

Funeral Services will be 2 p.m. Thursday Grammier Oberle Procter Street Chapel with Rev. G. Julian Jones, Pastor of Lakeview Baptist Church officiating. Interment will be in Greenlawn Memorial Park.

Mr. Gilcrease is survived by his wife, Hazel Gilcrease, Starks, La.; Murline Barrow, Port Arthur; four sons, Henry Gilcrease, Port Arthur, Charles Gilcrease, San Antonio, David Gilcrease, Huntsville, Thomas Gilcrease, Beaumont; one brother, Lud Gilcrease, Huntsville; four sisters, Mrs. Edna Click, Mrs. Bracey Neal, both Cowelle, La.; Mrs. Ruby Gary, Huntsville, Mrs. Zeda Hensley, Johnson Bayou, La.; 17 grandchildren, one great-grandchild.

Pallbearers are David Adams, Jerry Prince, Alton J. McCord, Paul Adams, Mike Adams, Herbert Herrington, Lloyd Neel, Ralph McCord.