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Barbara Ann Edmonds Gillespie

April 14, 1939 — March 5, 2024

Flint, MI

Barbara Ann Edmonds Gillespie

GILLESPIE (EDMONDS), BARBARA ANN - Of Flint, Michigan, age 84, passed away on Tuesday, March 5, 2024 at Regency at Grand Blanc.

Funeral service will be held at 6 p.m. Saturday, March 9, 2024 at the Swartz Funeral Home, 1225 West Hill Road, Chaplain Adam Doyle officiating.

Visitation will be Monday. March 11, 2024, from1:00-2:00 PM at Moody-Davis Funeral Service in Dobson. Services will begin at 2:00 PM in the Moody-Davis chapel with Elder Avery Branch officiating. Burial will follow in the Little Vine Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery/

In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Carriage Town Ministries of Flint.

Visitation 11 a.m. Saturday until the time of the service at the funeral home. 

Barbara was born in Dobson, North Carolina on April 14, 1939, the daughter of Bessie (Hayes) and Wesley Edmonds. She was the youngest of three children.

Barbara lived in Dobson until moving to Flint in 1957.

On April 23, 1957 she married the love of her life, Richard Gilbert Gillespie in York, South Carolina. They were married for 54 wonderful years before he preceded her in death in June, 2011. Together they raised four wonderful children, Shirley, Butch, Rick and Belinda.

Barbara worked at a local doctor’s office and her children’s school; but her greatest joy in life was being a stay-at-home mom and raising her family. 

While she enjoyed listening to music and watching soap operas, her favorite past time was spending time with her family and getting hugs from everyone she loved.

She also enjoyed countless hours talking on the phone with family and friends.

She will be missed dearly by her family and friends, who she always told she loved to the moon and back.

Surviving are three children, Butch and Becca Gillespie, Rick and Debbie Gillespie, Belinda and Mark Trudeau;

grandchildren, Jaclyn (Tim) Ocenasek, Heather Trudeau, Ashley Trudeau, Rachel Cady, Michael Kendrick, David Holland; 

two great-grandsons, Luke Ocenasek and Oliver Cady; 

dear family friend, Joe Lincoln and family.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Bessie and Wesley Edmonds; husband, Richard Gillespie; daughter, Shirley Kendrick; granddaughter, Bridget Villabol; brothers, Sam Watson and Spencer Edmonds; sister-in-law, Treva Watson Woods and brother-in-law, G.W. Gillespie. Local arrangements are in the care of Moody-Davis Funeral Service in Dobson.

 

 

 

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Past Services

Visitation

Monday, March 11, 2024

1:00 - 2:00 pm (Eastern time)

Moody Funeral Services (Dobson)

215 West Kapp Street, Dobson, NC 27017

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Funeral Service

Monday, March 11, 2024

Starts at 2:00 pm (Eastern time)

Moody Funeral Services (Dobson)

215 West Kapp Street, Dobson, NC 27017

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Burial

Monday, March 11, 2024

Ends at 4:00 pm (Eastern time)

Little Vine Primitive Baptist Church

1284 Zephyr Rd, Dobson, NC 27017

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