Kate’s notes: Though this notice of Dr. Gilleland’s death appeared in the Lewiston, Idaho paper, there are other articles about Dr. Gilleland in the GT library collection of newspaper extracts for Oregon and Washington state, including one article about a trip he took home to Olean, Missouri.

Lewiston Morning Tribune
Lewiston, Idaho
June 7, 1944

   Dr. John L. Gilleland, 69, father of Mrs. Dave Troy and Mrs. A. M. Bond, of Lewiston, died at 2:35 yesterday afternoon at his home at Pullman after a prolonged illness. His condition had been serious since last September.
   Dr. Gilleland, well known in Lewiston, practiced medicine at Pullman from 1915 to 1930, then retiring because of failing health. A native of Olean, Mo., he came west to Pilot Rock, Ore., then moving to Pullman. He was a communicant of the Christian church and a member of the Masonic order and the Shrine.
   Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Beulah Gilleland; his two daughters in Lewiston, and another daughter, Mrs. Norris Lombard, Colfax; his son, Dr. James L. Gilleland, Pullman, and seven grandchildren.
   The funeral service has not been arranged.

-transcription by Kate Maynard, 2012