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Submitted: 5/23/15 • Approved: 5/23/15 • Last Updated: 5/26/15 • R1078541-G1078541-S3
January 28, 1933, Urbana, Champaign County, Illinois
August 10, 1997, Horseshoe Bend, Izard County, Arkansas
Daughter of Wilbur Acton Poore & Georgia Mary Shepherd Poore
Married Robert Carl Gentille, July 24, 1950, Champaign, Champaign County, Illinois
* obituary
HORSESHOE BEND, Ark. - Barbara Ann Gentille, 64, of Horseshoe Bend, Ark., mother of Kankakee and Momence residents, died Sunday (Aug. 10, 1997) at her home.
Graveside services will be held at a later date.
Arrangements are by Horseshoe Bend Memorial Chapel.
Family requests that memorials be made to Eastern Ozarks Hospice Cherokee Village.
She was born Jan. 28, 1933 at Urbana, the daughter of Wilbur Acton and Georgia Mary Shepherd Poore.
Surviving are her husband, Robert Carl Gentille, whom she married July 24, 1950 at Champaign; her parents, of Urbana; one son, Robert A. Gentille of Bourbonnais; six daughters, Elizabeth A. Elston of Mendota, Anita M. West of Streator, Joanna L. Gentille of Momence, Mary K. Gilden of Oxford, Ark., Patricia L. Cox of Kankakee and Karen S. Miles of Irvine, Calif.; one brother, Wilbur A. Poore Jr. of West Monroe, La.; 16 grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.
One daughter, Jane Marie is deceased.
(Photo by the late Vera Emeline Lane Reeves)
Contributed on 5/23/15 by maxparnell
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