THE FLAGLER TRIBUNE
Bunnell, Florida
Thursday, April 9, 1953

 

Funeral services were held for Mrs. Elizabeth Gatlin and infant daughter, Ruth Stella, who passed away Wednesday night, April 1, at Welborn hospital in Evansville, Ind., due to massive hemorrhage. Before her remove­ment to Florida, services were held at First Presbyterian Church of Sturgis, Ky. at 7 o’clock Thursday evening under direction of Rev. S. C. McKee.

Immediately following the service at Sturgis, the body was returned to the Florida home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Clegg here. Services were held at the Centenary Chapel in Haw Creek at 2:30 Saturday, April 4, with burial at the family cemetery at Seville, Florida with Rev. Robert H. Carr officiating. The body was accompanied to Florida by her husband, Ila Davis Gatlin, Jr., his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ila Gatlin, Billy Wallace and Ralph Horning.

Mrs. Gatlin was born in Haw Creek, Florida March 15, 1922. She was a graduate of Bunnell High School and Florida Southern College where she received her B. S. degree in Home Economics. She was a member of Zeta Zeta Zeta Sorority and Kappa Omicron Phi Society.

After teaching a year each at Boca Grande and Pierson High Schools, Mrs. Gatlin joined the faculty of Mainland High School at Daytona Beach. During her three years there she was active in YWCA and Business Girls Organization: She was also a member of Bunnell Chapter No. 93 of the Order of the Eastern Star.

Since her marriage on August 22, 1950 she and Davis made their home in Maryland while he was in service and in Kentucky and Evansville, Ind. She was a mem­ber of First Presbyterian Church in Sturgis, Kentucky.

Mrs. Gatlin is survived by her husband, Davis Gatlin; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Clegg, Bunnell; her sister, Mrs. James W. Townsend, Lake Butler; three brothers; John A., George, and Frank, all of Bunnell; her grand­mother, Mrs. A. A. Ferguson, Seville and Mr. and Mrs. Ila Gatlin, parents of her husband.

Pallbearers for local services were Dick Cody, C. B. Eisenbach, Jack Hosford, George Kendall, Kinney Townsend, all of Bunnell and W. H. Morris, Long Beach, California.