From the Amarillo Daily News
Amarillo, Texas
November 6, 1944

Mrs. Gilliland, 
Hereford, Dies

   Mrs. S. F. Gilliland, longtime resident of Hereford, died in a Dallas hospital Saturday afternoon. She was 63 years old.
   The body of Mrs. Gilliland arrived in Amarillo last night in care of the Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home, to be taken to Hereford this morning to lie in state in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Higgens from 11:30 o’clock until time of services this afternoon.
   Last rites will be conducted at 2 o’clock this afternoon in the Hereford Presbyterian Church. Officiating minister will be Rev. Ray Clayton, pastor of the Baptist Church at Seagraves, who will be assisted by Rev. James Akin, pastor of the Hereford Presbyterian Church, and Rev. Hartley Stephens, pastor of the Plainview Baptist Church. Burial will be in Hereford Cemetery.
   Pallbearers will be Gilbert Bean, Charles Wilson, [Minard Field], Jim Higgens and Bill Hudson.
   Mrs. Gilliland is survived by her husband and nine children, Mrs. Eddie Bennett, Miss Pauline Gilliland, and Miss Inez Gilliland, all of Dallas, Mrs. Howard Morris of South Plains, Mrs. Lester B. Dunn of Amarillo, Herman Gilliland and Travis Gilliland, both in the Army, Arnold W. Gilliland, in the air corps, and Clyde H. Gilliland of Hereford.

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2010