Eunice Francis (Gilliam) Herndon

© Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise

July 4, 2010

Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

Mrs. Eunice Francis (Gilliam) Herndon, 99, widow of the late Ernest Andrew Herndon, died at 9:50 a.m. on Wednesday, June 30, 2010, in the Earlene Howard Hospice Home in Springdale, Arkansas. Graveside services will be held at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, July 6, 2010, in the Ethel Reece Cemetery, Barnsdall, Oklahoma. Family members will officiate. Committal prayers and interment will be directed by the Arnold Moore - Barnsdall Funeral Home. Visitation will be held from 9 a.m. until noon on Tuesday, July 6, in the Arnold Moore - Barnsdall Funeral Home.

Eunice Francis Gilliam was born February 22, 1911 at Brushy Mountain, near Muskogee, Oklahoma. She was the daughter of the late Sidney R. Gilliam and Minnie Mae (Sheppard) Gilliam. She lived a period of her childhood in Barnsdall and was reared in Oklahoma and Arkansas. Eunice received her education in the Tulsa Public Schools.

She and Ernest Andrew Herndon were married on April 5, 1931 in Tulsa at the home of his mother, Mahala (Keeter) Herndon, and they made their home in Tulsa. Mr. Herndon was employed by the Ohio Oil Company and in 1938 they lived in Findlay, Ohio returning to Tulsa in 1939 where they retired. Ernest preceded her in death in 1973. Eunice was a Baptist and was a member of the Baptist Church of Centerton, Arkansas until she moved to Autumn Place Retirement Home in Pea Ridge, Arkansas in 2007.

She is survived by three children: two daughters, Barbara Herndon of Tulsa and Wanda Downen and husband, David of Tulsa; and one son, Clyde Ernest Herndon and wife, Virginia, of Centerton, Arkansas; six grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; six great great-granddaughters; and one great great-grandson. She was preceded in death by her husband, Ernest; father and mother; two brothers; three sisters; and a granddaughter, Cathy Herndon.

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