Carmen (Macias) Gilbert |
| Posted 2009-11-01 by Sharla |
| Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, AZ, March 27, 1953 LAST RITES FOR CARMEN GILBERT WERE HELD TUESDAY HERE. SHE WAS A MEMBER OF PIONEER FAMILY The pleasant smile and cheerful disposition of Mrs Carmin Gilbert will be missed in this community where she spent most of her life. She passed away last Friday in Phoenix and funeral services and burial took place here Tuesday afternoon. Mrs Gilbert was born Carmen Macias on February 17, 1909, in Congress but was brought to Wickenburg shortly afterwards and grew up here on the 6M ranch of the family just east of town on the Phoenix highway. She attended school here and became widely known as a cook and waitress in several local restaurants. ILL SINCE DECEMBER Mrs Gilbert became ill late in December of last year and was admitted to Community Hospital on December 28. Soon there after she was taken to Memorial Hospital in Phoenix and then to a rest home in that city where she passed away at 8:30 p. m. March 20. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. D. F. O'Sullivan of St. Anthony's Church and burial followed in the Garcia Cemetery. THE SURVIVORS Mrs Gilbert is survived by her husband, James Gilbert, an employee of the State Highway Department at Quartzsite and by three children, Patsy, Elsie and Floyd Warner. Her mother, Mrs Aurora Shields also survives as do three brothers and one sister, Manuel, Frank and Raymond Macias and Mrs Allen Hershkowitz, all of Wickenburg. (Obit: Courtesy of Janet Bowie) See Also: Find A Grave |
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