Obituary of Barbara Gilstrap

Services for Barbara Ann Gilstrap, 76, Overton, will be at 9:00 am, Saturday, November 5, in the Kilgore Memorial Gardens, Kilgore with Reverend Aaron Turner officiating under the direction of Cottle-Pearson Funeral Home, Overton. Mrs. Gilstrap died Tuesday, November 1, 2011, in Kilgore. She was born October 27, 1935, in Kilgore to the late Gail and Vina Ovelia Ross Trainer. She lived in Kilgore 55 years prior to moving to Overton five years ago. She received her business degree from Kilgore College and was a homemaker. She was a member of the Danville Methodist Church and Forest Home Baptist Church.  She loved their Land and her family. Besides her parents, she was also preceded in death by a sister, Joyce Duckett and by her husband, William Gilstrap, Sr., August 16, 2010. Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, William 'Bud' Gilstrap, Jr., and Mary Ann Gilstrap, Abbott; two daughters, Sheila Arnold, Longview, and Ovelia Jayne Gilstrap, Overton; a brother and sister-in-law, Norman and Nancy Trainer Dickenson; brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Tink and June Gilstrap, Overton; four grandchildren; one great grandchild; and numerous nieces and nephews. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 7:00 pm until 9:00 pm, Friday, November 4.