FRANK GILLESPIE

CHARLESTON -- Frank Smith Gillespie, 94, of Massachusetts died Saturday, Jan. 31, 1998, at Hammersmith Home in Saugus, Mass.

He was born Sept. 12, 1903, in Poplar Bluff, son of William Looney and Clara Huffman Gillespie. He and Annetta Priester were married March 25, 1938, in Charleston. She died Nov. 10, 1992.

Gillespie was a 1922 graduate of Cairo, Ill., High School; attended the University of Illinois, Washington University, and received a law degree from George Washington University.

While attending law school he worked for the Bureau of Census. He returned to Cairo in the 1930s where he was an attorney for Veterans Administration and Social Security Administration. He also worked in the post office.

Gillespie moved to Lexington, Ky., in 1961. He was chief hearing examiner for the Disabilities Division of Social Security Administration for Eastern Kentucky. He retired in 1969 as a federal administrative law judge.

After retiring he moved to Charleston and resumed a part time law practice and was municipal judge from 1971-1979. He was a member of Cairo Elks Club and was a Kentucky Colonel.

Survivors include a son, Jacob Gillespie of Washington, D.C.; a daughter, Mary Gillespie of Amesbury, Mass.; a twin sister, Frances Laidlaw of Kenilworth, Ill.; two grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Friends may call at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel in Sikeston at 1 p.m. Saturday.

A memorial service will be held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the chapel, with Dr. Jim Davis officiating. Private burial will be in IOOF Cemetery.