Edith E. Gilman
1932-2020
Services are to be held for Edith Evangeline Gilman of St. Andrews who
died Thursday, February 27th, 2020 at Passamaquoddy Lodge in St.
Andrews, NB. She was born May 6, 1932 in St. Andrews. She was the
daughter of the late Howard and Vida (French) Gilman and sister of the
late Lois Gilman Buchan.
She was a member of St. Andrews United Baptist Church since 2004 when
she transferred from Central Baptist in St. John on her retirement.
She was active in the St. Stephen Baptist Board of Missions, by
encouraging prayer and support of foreign missions. She was on the
board of the Seafarer’s Mission, Daffodils for the Cancer Society,
Atlantic Committee of Nurses Christian Fellowship and active in the
Spindrifters in St. Andrews.
She is survived by her youngest sister Margaret (Jacob) Bush of
Poinciana, Florida, niece Jennifer (Bruce) Krupa of Deltona, Florida
and niece Hannah (Nicholas) Staples of Easton, Pennsylvania:, a great
niece Ashley Krupa and two great nephews Mark Staples and Corbin
Krupa.
Edith graduated Charlotte County Hospital School of Nursing in 1953.
She graduated Dalhousie University in public health nursing May,
16th,1957 then studied theology at Acadia University. She worked in
the Canadian north with TB patients and in public health in northern
N.B. and Moncton. In 1960 she went to India under the Canadian Baptist
Foreign Mission Board and served there until 1965. She was fluent in
Telugu and worked in and taught public health nursing in Pithapuram
and Visakapatnam, India. She was fond of her nursing students and many
furthered their education. She revisited the mission field in 1999.
She retired to the family home in St. Andrews after a long career with
the N.B. Public Health Department in Saint John. She enjoyed traveling
and visited France, Italy, the Alps, the Holy Land, England all the
Canadian provinces and made many trips to Pennsylvania and
Florida.
Friends and family will be received at the United Baptist Church St.
Andrews from 1:00 … 2:00 pm with funeral service at 2:00pm at
the church, on Saturday, March 7th, 2020. Rev. Ladd Dunfield
officiating. Reception to follow service. The interment will take
place later in the spring at St. Andrews Rural Cemetery.
Donations to the Seafarers Mission or to the Charlotte County Cancer
Society would be appreciated by the family. Online condolences to the
family or donations can be made at www.humphreysfh.com
Arrangements have been entrusted to the care & direction of
Humphreys Funeral Home, 20 Marks Street, St. Stephen, NB E3L 2B2 (506
… 466 … 3110)
Our most sincere sympathies to the family and friends of Edith E Gilman 19322020..
Death notice for the town of: St-Stephen, Province: Nouveau-Brunswick