This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2ZB.2ACE/339.1 Message Board Post: I did not find an obituary for Norris E. Gilkison. Found the following: The Dalles Chronicle Tuesday, December 5, 1989 page 2 Sylvia Addie Gilkison, 74, a resident of The Dalles and formerly a long time Resident of Grass Valley [Oregon], died at a local hospital on Sunday after a Sudden illness. She was born in Grass Valley on April 6, 1915 to Thomas and Bertha (Rice) Coyle. She married Norris E. Gilkison in Portland. They lived in Grass Valley until 1968. He died in January of 1982. Survivors include a sister, Mrs. Harold (Cecil) Eakin, Grass Valley; two nephews, Harry and Tom Eakin, both Grass Valley; two nieces, Mona Faye Schmidt, Philadelphia, and Marcile Manning, Portland; seven grand nieces and nephews and One great-great grand niece. Funeral services will be at Spencer, Libby and Powell Funeral home on Wednesday At 11 a.m. with Pastor Asa Jenson officiating. Private entombment will be at The Dalles IOOF Mausoleum. Memorials may be made to charities.