The Gettysburg Times
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
12 July, 1937

MRS. GILLILAND DIES;
SCOTLAND NATIVE EXPIRES
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    Mrs. Ada E. Gilliland, wife of W. F. Gilliland, 239 Carlisle street, died Sunday morning at 7:45 o’clock at the Annie M. Warner hospital, where she had been a patient for nearly two weeks.
    Mrs. Gilliland had been in ill health for some time and had been admitted to the hospital June 28, and submitted to a major operation the following Saturday. Her condition improved for several days but she suffered a sinking spell last Saturday which was terminated by her death Sunday morning. A complication of diseases caused death.
    The deceased was a native of McKeesport and was a daughter of the late James and Sarah Ann (VanKerk) Patterson.
    Since her marriage to Mr. Gilliland she had resided in Adams county, having made her home in Gettysburg since 1910.
    For a number of years she had been a member of the Gettysburg chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, having been one of the first members of the local unit.
    She was a member of the Gettysburg Presbyterian church and of the Women’s Missionary society of the church.
    Surviving are her husband, three children: Mrs. Walter Morris, Punxsutawney;  Miss Anne Gilliland, at home, and James P. Gilliland, Philadelphia. There are four grandchildren: Ann Louise and Margaret Morris, of Punxsutawney and Georgianna and Samuel A. Gilliland, both of Pittsburgh.
    Funeral services Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the home on Carlisle street with the Rev. Frederick B. Crane, her pastor, officiating. Interment in Evergreen cemetery.
    Friends may call this evening from 7 to 9 o’clock at the home.

-transcription by Kate Maynard, 2013