He is married to Ruth Margaret Wisner.
California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
Name: Douglas William Gilliam
Event Type: Marriage
Event Date: 19 Jun 1949
Event Place: Los Angeles, California, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 20
Birth Year (Estimated): 1929
Father's Name: Thomas Gilliam
Mother's Name: Lama V Stonesifer
Spouse's Name: Ruth Margaret Wisner
Spouse's Age: 21
Spouse's Gender: Female
Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated): 1928
Spouse's Father's Name: Raepmond C Wisner
Spouse's Mother's Name: Beatrice M Hawver
Page: 67
GS Film number: 2117267
Digital Folder Number: 005698896
Image Number: 02918
They got married on June 19, 1949 at Los Angeles Co., California, Verenigde Staten, he was 20 years old.Source 2
Child(ren):
Douglas William Gilliam
(February 18, 1929 - October 4, 2010)
Former Mount Shasta resident Douglas William Gilliam passed away October 4, 2010 at Veterans Hospital in Palo Alto. Douglas was 81 years old.
Douglas was born February 18, 1929 in Muskogee, Oklahoma to Thomas and Laura Gilliam. He shined shoes after school as he was growing up. He received his barbers certificate prior to his graduating from Garfield High School in East Los Angeles. On June 19, 1949 he married Ruth Wisner. He served in the United States Army during the Korean Conflict. After his discharge, Douglas and Ruth settled in Mount Shasta, where he was a barber for 53 years. He enjoyed fishing, but his greatest love was being with his family. He was a talker, and loved to visit.
Douglas is survived by his wife of 61 years, Ruth Gilliam; two children, Karen Fauss and her husband Richard of Newman and Dale Gilliam and his wife Kerri of Mount Shasta; a brother, T.A. Gilliam of Oklahoma; two sisters, Ruth Pounds of Bedford, Indiana and Mary Lou of California; six grandchildren, Nicholas Gilliam of Weed, Nathan and Natalie Gilliam of Mount Shasta, Lance Boehlke and his wife Jessyca of Redding, Amber Kirkenides and her husband Phil of Redding and Crystal Peters and her husband Louis of Sasbo, Japan; and four great grandchildren, Lydia and Madalyn Boehlke and Hailey and Ethan Peters.
Funeral services will be held Friday, October 8, 2010 at 10:00 AM at the Hope Community Church, 974 Lassen Lane, Mount Shasta. Interment will follow at Mount Shasta Memorial Park. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Hope Community Church, 974 Lassen Lane, Mount Shasta, CA 96067.
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