Obituary of Peggy Gill

Services for Peggy Leigh Gill, 82, Overton, are scheduled for 3:00 pm, Monday, March 27, at the Cottle-Pearson Funeral Home chapel, Overton with the Reverend Charles Paschall officiating. Burial will be in the Overton City Cemetery. Mrs. Gill died Friday, March 24, 2005, in Tyler. She was born October 7, 1923, in Sour Lake, to the late W.G. and Dorris Leigh Oliver. She was a graduate of Overton High School, where she was the class Valedictorian. She also attended Kilgore Junior College. Mrs. Gill was retired, having worked for the First State Bank, Overton, as a teller and as a bookkeeper for the Evans and Hickman Insurance Agency, Overton, the Overton Independent School District, and the Pasadena Independent School District. She was a member of the First Baptist Church, Overton. Mrs. Gill married Jack L. "Speck" Gill, in Troup, February 14, 1942. He preceded her in death August 23, 2005. She was also preceded in death by a daughter, Ruth Leigh Gill, a son, John Oliver Gill, and a sister, Willie Ruth Davis. Survivors include an uncle, Nels Olesen, Overton; a niece, Peggy Kee, Overton; a nephew, Clark Davis, Henderson; a great nephew, Kyle Davis, Iraq; a great-great niece, Ryan Elizzabeth Davis; and numerous cousins including Barbara Langford, Georgetown and Spencer Olesen, Grand Prairie. Memorials, if desired may be made to the Gladney Center for Adoption, 6300 John Ryan Drive, Fort Worth, Texas 76132-4122 or to the First Baptist Church, 206 North Rusk Street, Overton, Texas 75684.