Source: http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/news/2001/apr/18/obituaries-for-april-18-2001/

Gertrude Burns Spillman

August 17, 1921 -- April 14, 2001

Services for Gertrude Burns Spillman, 79, of Shepherd, Texas, who died Saturday, April 14, 2001 at Cleveland Regional Medical Center, Cleveland, Texas, will be at 11 a.m. today at Laird Funeral Home with Pastor Darrell H. Bingle officiating. Burial will be in the Greenlawn Memorial Park under the direction of Laird Funeral Home. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. until service time at the funeral home.

Mrs. Spillman was born Aug. 17, 1921 in Magee, Ark., the daughter of James Oliver and Ruby Kirk Sanders Burns.

Mrs. Spillman was preceded in death by her husband, Clayton Spillman. Survivors include a brother, James Robert Burns and his wife, Betty, of Dahlgreen, Va.; one sister, Anne Taylor Burns Lofton and her husband, Hilton, of Shepherd; two brothers-in-law, Leland Sturgis and his wife, Bernice, of Natchez and Homer Sturgis and his wife, Annie Mae, of Clayton, La.; and a number of nieces, nephews and their families.

Pallbearers are Leland Sturgis, John Procell, Charlie Varnado, Bill Hinson, Jerry Kimball and Paul Arnold.