Mary Gilliam
Posted: July 27, 2021
MILLPORT, Ala. — Mary P. Gilliam, 92, died July 24, 2021, at the Long Term Care facility in Fayette, Alabama.
Funeral services were at 2 p.m. Tuesday, at Dowdle Funeral Home, with Sonny McLellan and Terrance Cleghorn officiating. Burial followed at Wesley Chapel Cemetery in Bleck, Alabama. Visitation was one hour prior to services at the funeral home. Dowdle Funeral Home of Millport was in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Gilliam was born Dec. 27, 1928, in Fayette, to the late James Dave Faulkner and Ludie Mae Faulkner. She attended Millport Church of Christ.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her daughter, Sandra Gilliam; siblings, Opal Harris Prescott, Eleanor Faulkner Barrett, Otis Faulkner, David Lincoln Faulkner, Verdo Faulkner, B.W. Faulkner, Edward Stewart Faulkner and Jimmy Wayne Faulkner; and one great-grandchild.
She is survived by her children, Jerry Wayne Gilliam and Lane Gilliam; sister, Madgaline Henderson; four grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers were John Hildreth, Lane Andrews, Briggs Andrews, Jimmy Rogers, Terry Oswalt and Ottis Henderson.