Notes |
- Elmer Wilmot
Berea – Elmer “Hotshot” Wilmot, 78, of Route 1, Mount Vernon, formerly of Cartersville, died Thursday at the University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center, Louisville.
Born Oct. 28, 1919, in Butler County, Ohio, he was the son of the late Edward F. and Flora Jane Doyle Wilmot. He was a retired farmer and businessman and a U.S. Army veteran of World War II. He was a deacon of White Lick Baptist Church, Cartersville. He was the widower of Veda Iris Wilmot, his first wife.
Survivors include his wife, Grace Brock Bowling Wilmot; one son, Edward Wilmot of Berea; one step-son, Kermit Bowling of Richmond; two daughters, Phyllis Hicks of Paint Lick and Rhoda S. Ellis of Berea; one step-daughter, Judy Gail King of Burgin; three sisters, Nellie Kidwell of Oxford, Ohio, Juanita Blackmon of Arcadia, Fla. And Edna Harris of Richmond; one brother, Clarence Wilmot of London; four grandchildren; one step-grandchild and four great-grandchildren.
Services will be 2 p.m. today at White Lick Baptist Church, Cartersville, by the Revs. Edward Hubbard and C. Denton Sears. Burial will be in Cartersville Cemetery.
Active pallbearers will be Kenneth Ellis, James Hicks, Chester Turner, Frank Wilmot, Michael Hicks and Durand Brown.
Honorary pallbearers are Holton Howard, Paul Green, Billy Pendleton, Lonnie Napier, Ed Turner, Harold Renfro and Ronnie Wilmot.
Lakes Funeral Home, Berea, is in charge of arrangements.
The Advocate-Messenger, Danville, Kentucky. Sunday, 11 October 1998.
[5, 7]
|