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Obituary from the Waco News, Texas.
Henry Lawson Gillenwaters, 78, of 2809 Old Robinson Road, a
retired Army
Chaplain, died Sunday morning December 19, 1882 at a local
hospital.
Services were the following Thursday at the First Baptist Church
Chapel.
Doctor John A. Wood and former Chaplain Matthew A. Sanderford
officiating.
Burial was at Waco Memorial Park.
Rev. Gillenwaters was born on a farm near Plad, Missouori, he
attended high
school and junior college at the Southwest Baptist Academy (now
University)
in Bolivar, Missouri. He graduated from Oklahoma Baptist
University in 1934
and also received degrees from Southwestern Baptist Theological
Seminary and
Teachers College of Columbia University in New York. Rev.
Gillenwaters
pastored churches in Missouri, Kansas, Arizona, Texas, Maryland,
New Jersey,
Maine and Ohio.
He was married to Nellie Arlene Webb in 1925. He served in the
U.S. Army
chaplaincy from 1943 until 1957 when he retired as a Lieutenant
Colonel. He
served in Europe and Korea. He moved to Waco in 1971 and was a
member of
Downtown Kiwanis Club and had served four years as associate
state Director
of the American Association of Retired Persons. Rev.
Gillenwaters was a member of the First Baptist Church and the
businessmen's Sunday school class.
Survivors include his wife; two sons, James Paul Gillenwaters of
San Dimas,
Calif. and John David Gillenwaters of Austin; a sister Grace
Wright of North
Port, Fla. and six grandchildren. An endowed scholarship has been
established in his memory at the Redford School of Theology,
Southwest
Baptist University, Bolivar, Mo.