Gertrude Dunlap
1924 - 2003
Gertrude Dunlap
1924 - 2003
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BORN
1924
DIED
2003
Gertrude Dunlap Obituary
Mrs. Dunlap died Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2003, at Trinity Medical Center-West Campus, Rock Island, after a battle with cancer.
She was employed 23 years as a clerk at Illinois Bell and as a secretary at Winola School.
Gertrude Spivey was born Jan. 28, 1924, in Reynolds. She married Gene Dunlap in 1948 in New Windsor.
Memorials may be made to American Cancer Society or Tri-County Ambulance Service.
Survivors include her husband, Gene; sisters, Beverly Nelson, Viola, Marilyn Peterson, Rio, and Dolly Anderson, New Windsor; and brother, Virgil "Bill" Spivey, Cambridge.
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