Kate’s Notes: Due to the poor condition of the original material, any portions in doubt have been placed within brackets.

From The Daily News
Huntingdon and Mount Union, Pennsylvania
April 18, 1956

Clarence S. Gilliland
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   Clarence Scott Gilliland, retired postal clerk, died at his home, [128] West Vandevender Street, Mount Union this morning, April 18, 1956 at 7:40 o’clock. Although Mr. Gilliland had been in ill health, his death came as a sudden shock to his wife and friends.
   Mr. Gilliland was born January 22, 1887 at Nossville, the son of William B. and Elizabeth Scott Gilliland. He attended Shade Gap Normal School and prepared to teach. He was a school teacher in the Shade Gap area for five years.
   On December 22, 1910, Mr. Gilliland was united in marriage with Miss Jessie Vaughn of Nessville, in a ceremony performed in the Vaughn home by the Rev. Walter Van Cleave Stewart.
   The Gillilands made their first home in Shade Valley and Mr. Gilliland was employed as a railway mail clerk for five years. They moved to Mount Union in 1918 where Mr. Gilliland was employed in the Mount Union Post Office. He retired on August 31, 1953.
   The deceased was a member of the First Methodist Church in Mount Union and the Herman Smith Sunday School Class.
   One daughter, Mary Jane, preceded him in death.
   Surviving in addition to his wife are these brothers and sisters: Mrs. Eunice [Kahn], Paul Gilliland and Elbert Gilliland, all of Huntingdon; Mrs. R. C. Vaughn of Woodward, Iowa, and Boyd Gilliland of Neelyton.
   The funeral service will be held at 2 o’clock on Saturday afternoon, April 21, from the Clark funeral home in Mount Union. Interment will be made in the [IOOF] Cemetery. Officiating will be the Rev. W. Murray Young of the Methodist Church in Mount Union, and the Rev. Frank Crawford of the Allenport Methodist Church.
   Friends will be received at the late home after 6 o’clock Thursday evening till 11 a.m. Saturday when the body may be viewed at the Clark funeral home.

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2010