Robert Gillmor

1914 - 1956  (41 years)

• Name	Robert Gillmor  [1]
  Born	23 Jun 1914	Scott County, Iowa, USA   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Died	12 Mar 1956	Scott County, Iowa, USA   [3]
  	Died in an explosion, see srticle.
  NEWS	13 Mar 1956	Davenport, Scott County, Iowa, USA   [2]
  	Quad-City Times: "Services Set For Victim Of Explosion Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in Runge chapel, Davenport, for Robert Gillmor, 41, of near Donahue who was the victim of an explosion Sunday. Burial will be in Allen's Grove cemetery. Mr. Gillmor died at 3:40 a.m. Monday in DeWitt community hospital. He was fatally burned when a gasoline tank on an old automobile he was dismantling with a cutting torch exploded about 6 p.m. Sunday. The accident occurred at the home of Gillmor's father, about three and one-half miles west of Donahue. Members of the family said the gasoline tank was thought to have been empty. It is not known whether fumes remaining in the tank was partly filled, authorities said. Born near Donahue, June 23, 1914, he was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gillmor. He married Helen Harrison, October 24, 1955, in the Little Brown church in Nashua. He farmed for 15 years and had been employed at the Oscar Mayer Co. He was a member of the Loyal Order of Moose and of the Donahue Sportsmen's club. Survivors include the wife: a step-son: Keith Harris; two step-daughters, Mrs. Kenenth [sic] Starkweather, all of Muscatine; three step-grandchildren; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. Gillmor, R. R. Mo 1, Donue, two brothers, Stewart of Davenport and John of Donahue, and a sister, Mary Ann of Donahue. "
  Person ID	I1188	Gilmore-Donald
  Last Modified	19 Feb 2020

  
  

  Father	Frank A. E. Gillmor,   b. Jul 1873, Iowa, USA ,   d. 1964  (Age ~ 90 years)
  Mother	Margaret A. McCosh,   b. Abt 1891, Davenport, Scott County, Iowa, USA ,   d. 2 Sep 1976, Trenton, Grundy County, Missouri, USA  (Age ~ 85 years)
  Married	1913  [3]
  Family ID	F452	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Helen Harrison
  Last Modified	19 Feb 2020
  Family ID	F462	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S1226] 1940 U.S. census, Scott County, Iowa, population schedule, Allens Grove township, enumeration district (ED) 82-3, sheet 2A (penned), p. 9a (stamped), visited no. 26, F. A. E. Gillmor household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 17 February 2020); citing NARA microfilm publication T627, roll 1202. [S1235] ?Services Set For Victim of Explosion,? The Quad-City Times (Davenport, Iowa), 13 March 1956, p. 8, col. 6; digital image, Newspapers.com (http://www.newspapers.com : accessed 19 February 2020). [S1222] "Deaths: Donahue: Margaret Gillmor" The Quad City Times (Davenport, Ia.), 3 September 1976 p. 23, col. 2; digital image Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/ : accessed 19 February 2020).