Shirley Ann VanGilder
Shirley Ann VanGilder
Funeral services for Shirley Ann VanGilder, 67, were held March 13 at Vase Funeral Chapel. Interment was in Rest Haven Memorial Gardens.
She died March 7 at the Avalon Valley Rehabilitation Center in Salt Lake City. She had battled cancer since February of 2005.
She was born Aug. 29, 1938, in Bridgeport, Ill., the daughter of John Wesley Moore, Jr. and Gladys (Inyart) Moore.
She attended school in Sumner, Ill., and she graduated from high school there with the class of 1956. She married James VanGilder on June 29, 1956 at the United Methodist Church in Sumner.
She enjoyed cooking, sewing for the kids, reading, NASCAR racing and spending time with her family and friends and especially her grandchildren.
Survivors include her husband, her mother, Gladys Kimmel of Sumner; two daughters and their husbands, Regina Lanning of Perryton, Texas and Teresa McCaslin of Big Piney; one brother Larry Brock of Carmi, Ill.; four grandchildren and one great-grandson.
Her dad and one brother, Jerry Brock, preceded her in death.