Martha Lucille Gillispie

Martha Lucille Gillispie 94, Trenton, died Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014, at Sunrise Terrace Care Center in Winfield.

Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 23, at the New London Christian Church in New London with the Rev. Rod Cooper officiating. Burial will be in the Finley Cemetery. Friends may call after 2 p.m. on Friday at the Murphy Funeral Home in Mt. Pleasant where the family will be present from 6 to 8 p.m. A memorial in her name has been established.

Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.murphyfuneralandmonuments.com.

Murphy Funeral Home of Mt. Pleasant is handling the arrangements.

She was born on Sept. 22, 1919, in Davis County, and was the daughter of Perly and Zepha Stogdill Bowman, her step-father was Orty Stogdill. She married Dewey Gillispie on May 9, 1938. He preceded her in death. She attended school in West Grove, and had lived in Garden City, Kan., where she worked in a plastics factory, cleaned homes and worked at a nursing home. She belonged to a church group and was a Ground Observer Corps Volunteer. She enjoyed being a wife and mother. She loved music, especially playing the organ, piano and the guitar. She also enjoyed knitting.

She is survived by her son, Ray Dean Gillespie of Trenton; and one step-son Kenneth L. Gillispie of Mt. Pleasant; seven step-grandchildren; 22 step-great-grandchildren and 28 step-great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, three brothers, two step brothers, one sister and two step-sisters.