You may leave online condolences for the family at Tri City Funeral Home is honored to serve the William Gilliam Family. In lieu of flowers, the family request donations to be made toward his funeral expenses. Interment will follow in the Mountain View Cemetery in Cumberland, KY with military rites at graveside by the Harlan Honor Guard.įamily and friends are serving as pallbearers.
Funeral services will be at Cloverlick Freewill Baptist Church, Cloverlick, KY on Tuesday, May 15, 2018, at 1 pm with Pastors Don McKnight and Mike McKnight officiating. If you ask Augie Morningstar and his Washington high school Tigers theyll tell you that the weatherman is a contrary cuss and apparently. You may visit with the family on Monday, May 14, 2018, between 6 – 8 pm at Tri City Funeral Home, 506 Holly Street, Benham, KY. Gilliam and wife, Sherry, of Middlesboro, KY, and Ann Marie Gilliam of Owensboro, KY sisters, Anna Sue Gilliam of Harlan, KY and Ella Mae Whiteaker of Big Stone Gap, VA grandchildren, Tyler and Jason Coots, Tamara, Makayla, and Braelyn Gilliam, Mareshah Springer, and Justin, Larisa, and Coty McDaniels great grandchildren, Jackson and Carson Coots and a host of other family and friends. In the winter, he loved to spend time working on jigsaw puzzles and often encouraged others to place a puzzle piece or two.īesides his parents, he is preceded in death by his brothers, Benton and Joe Gilliam and sister, Elizabeth Galloway.īill is survived by his loving wife of 53 years, Wilma Jean Cress Gilliam, of Cumberland, KY children, Helen (Pebbles) Coots and husband, Richard, of Linefork, KY, William J. He was an avid fisherman and gardener of vegetables and flowers. He loved his fur babies (Bella, Sierra, Sophie and Sadie). Bob has known he wanted to be a weatherman since the age of 8. The local Tri City News Paper has written several articles on Bill’s weather predicting skills. Robert 'Bob' Becker Robert 'Bob' Becker passed away on January 10, 2021.
Bill was a retired Grounds Keeper from Benham Coal Company, member of the Cloverlick Freewill Baptist Church, and served proudly with the National Guard Army.īill was well known as “the Weather Man” using Persimmon Seeds and the Seven Winters to predict weather. He was born Augin Cumberland to the late Denver Gilliam and Ruth Lay Gilliam Jackson. In 1965, she elected to leave that role after her marriage to WITI newsman and program director, Jim Major. (Bill) Gilliam, age 79 of Cumberland, KY, departed for his heavenly home on Friday, May 11, 2018, at Harlan ARH. Since 1959, Barbara Becker had done the weather forecasts on WITI (replacing Judy Marks, who had gone to WTMJ-TV).
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