September 1, 2022

Richard Gilmore

MOBILE, Ala. — Richard Keith Gilmore, 83, died Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022, at Knollwood Health Care in Mobile. Richard was born Jan. 15, 1940, in Cape Girardeau County to the late Evelyn Anna Ackman and John Woodrow Gilmore of Fruitland. He attended the University of Arkansas two years on an athletic scholarship. He served in the U.S. Army and was stationed in Turkey as an airplane mechanic...

Richard Gilmore

MOBILE, Ala. — Richard Keith Gilmore, 83, died Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022, at Knollwood Health Care in Mobile.

Richard was born Jan. 15, 1940, in Cape Girardeau County to the late Evelyn Anna Ackman and John Woodrow Gilmore of Fruitland.

He attended the University of Arkansas two years on an athletic scholarship. He served in the U.S. Army and was stationed in Turkey as an airplane mechanic.

His lifelong career was in car sales.

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He always enjoyed fishing, golf, card games and a good joke.

Richard is survived by daughters, Tammy Gilmore, Julia Connette and Shawna Gilmore, and son, Ryan Gilmore.

His ashes will be interned in the Mobile Bay.

"For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or die, we are the Lord's." Romans 14:8.

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