IN LOVING MEMORY OF
Kay Gilliam
Settle
November 16, 1945 – April 22, 2015
Obituary
Martha Kay Gilliam Settle, 69, died Wednesday evening, April 22, 2015, in Lynchburg, where she had been in declining health for some time. She was the wife, since 1970, of James Dabney Settle currently of Forest and was the mother of two sons, James David Settle of the Forest residence and Jonathan Dabney Settle and wife, Rosemary of State College, Pennsylvania.
She was born in Lynchburg, Va., on November 16, 1945, one of twin daughters to the late Frank Wilson Gilliam and Eutha Mae Brooks Gilliam. She graduated from Prince Edward Academy, the present Fuqua School in 1964 and from the Virginia Baptist Hospital School of Nursing in 1967. She was employed as a registered nurse at Virginia Baptist until 1969, when she transferred to the University of Virginia Hospital in Charlottesville. After marriage to Jim Settle, they relocated to the Washington, DC area where his work had drawn them.
Kay devoted most of the following decades to caring for her family through several moves, but served as nurse at the US Embassy in Lima, Peru and later at the US Army's Martin Army Hospital at Fort Benning, Georgia. Her last job was with the St. Luke's Manor Rehabilitation Center in Hazleton, Pennsylvania before relocating to the Lynchburg area in 2001. In recent years, she has been a devoted genealogist and family historian, and her special enjoyments have been history in general, regional travel, and various forms of art and entertainment.
In addition to her husband and sons, she is survived by her twin sister, Frances Mae Gilliam Taylor of Richmond; her brother, David Brooks Gilliam of Troy; sister-in-law, Leah Settle Gibbs of Amherst; a number nieces, nephews, and cousins including a specially close relationship with Linda Bruce Gilliam Wooldridge of Evergreen.
Funeral services will be held 2 p.m., Sunday, April 26, 2015, in Elon Baptist Church, Pamplin. Burial will follow in the Gilliam Family Cemetery
The family will receive friends at the Settle family home "Hunting Tower", 164Dulwich Drive, Amherst, from 5 to 7 p.m., Saturday, April 25. Those who wish may also call at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil G. Wooldridge, Evergreen, following the burial.
Remembrances in Kay's name may be donated to Virginia Baptist Hospital or the charity or place of worship of your choice.
She was born in Lynchburg, Va., on November 16, 1945, one of twin daughters to the late Frank Wilson Gilliam and Eutha Mae Brooks Gilliam. She graduated from Prince Edward Academy, the present Fuqua School in 1964 and from the Virginia Baptist Hospital School of Nursing in 1967. She was employed as a registered nurse at Virginia Baptist until 1969, when she transferred to the University of Virginia Hospital in Charlottesville. After marriage to Jim Settle, they relocated to the Washington, DC area where his work had drawn them.
Kay devoted most of the following decades to caring for her family through several moves, but served as nurse at the US Embassy in Lima, Peru and later at the US Army's Martin Army Hospital at Fort Benning, Georgia. Her last job was with the St. Luke's Manor Rehabilitation Center in Hazleton, Pennsylvania before relocating to the Lynchburg area in 2001. In recent years, she has been a devoted genealogist and family historian, and her special enjoyments have been history in general, regional travel, and various forms of art and entertainment.
In addition to her husband and sons, she is survived by her twin sister, Frances Mae Gilliam Taylor of Richmond; her brother, David Brooks Gilliam of Troy; sister-in-law, Leah Settle Gibbs of Amherst; a number nieces, nephews, and cousins including a specially close relationship with Linda Bruce Gilliam Wooldridge of Evergreen.
Funeral services will be held 2 p.m., Sunday, April 26, 2015, in Elon Baptist Church, Pamplin. Burial will follow in the Gilliam Family Cemetery
The family will receive friends at the Settle family home "Hunting Tower", 164Dulwich Drive, Amherst, from 5 to 7 p.m., Saturday, April 25. Those who wish may also call at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil G. Wooldridge, Evergreen, following the burial.
Remembrances in Kay's name may be donated to Virginia Baptist Hospital or the charity or place of worship of your choice.
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