GILLESPIE, Zara M. (Lee), 14 May 1923 - 28 Dec 2008. (w/o and shares stone with H. Pruitt Gillespie.)
Zara Lee Gillespie
Hillsboro
Funeral for Zara Lee Gillespie, 85, of Hillsboro will be Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2008, at 2 p.m. at First Apostolic Church, 1659 Co. Rd. 369, Trinity, with the Rev. Fred Shepard officiating and Elliott Funeral Home directing.
Burial will be in Morris Chapel Cemetery. Visitation will be tonight from 6 to 9 at the church.
Mrs. Gillespie, who died Sunday, Dec. 28, 2008, at NHC Healthcare of Moulton, was born May 14, 1923, in Lawrence County to John Lee and Nellie Smith Lee. She was preceded in death by her husband, H. Pruitt Gillespie; son-in-law, Larry Dutton; three brothers, Edd Lee, Avery Lee and J.T. Lee; and sister, Vera Schnader.
Survivors include two daughters, Brenda Dutton and her husband, Wymon, of Moulton and Glenda Dutton of Trinity; five sons, Pruitt I. Gillespie and his wife, Linda, of Decatur, Franklin Gillespie and his wife, Linda, and Danny Gillespie and his puppy, JoJo, both of Hillsboro, Raburn Gillespie and his wife, Charlotte, of Town Creek and Gordon Gillespie and his wife, Donna, of Indiana; two sisters, June McLemore of Hartford, Mich., and Bettye Layne and her husband, Charles, of Foley; 12 grandchildren; and 21 great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Matthew Gillespie, Kenny Harris, Blake Harris, Devon Hampton, Carl Smith, Alan Hutto and Kenny Smith.
Honorary pallbearers will be grandsons.
Published in the Decatur Daily on December 30, 2008
