Lynn S Gilbert April 03, 1928 – April 03, 2019 Share this obituary Send Sympathy Gifts Sign Guestbook| View Guestbook Entries| Send Sympathy Card| Memorial Donation Nora Lynn Spencer Gilbert, 91, died Wednesday evening, April 3, 2019, in Dalhart, Texas. Funeral services were held at 10:00 am on Monday, April 8, 2019, at Central United Methodist Church in Dalhart, Texas, with burial immediately following at Memorial Park Cemetery. Lynn was born in Dalhart on April 3, 1928, to Dan Welch Spencer and Mildred Inez Gould Spencer.
She was the first infant christened in what was, at that time, the new Central United Methodist Church building. While growing up, Lynn was a member of Sub Debs Sorority and was active in the high school band. She also loved horses and spent many happy hours riding.
After graduating from Dalhart High School in 1945, she completed two years at Stephens College in Dallas, then graduated from SMU with a degree in business. While attending college in Dallas, she met and fell in love with Donald Earl Gilbert who was also attending SMU. They later married in December 1951, at Central United Methodist Church in Dalhart.
Don was serving in the Army’s Counter Intelligence Corps at the time, and they were sent almost immediately to Anchorage, Alaska. After a few months in Anchorage, Don was transferred south to Juneau, Alaska, where their first child, Douglas Allyn Gilbert, was born in January 1953. From Alaska, Don was transferred to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where Lynn worked for the Reynolds Tobacco Company.
In April 1957, their daughter Lea Ann was born. Four months later Don finished his military service, and they moved back to Lynn’s hometown of Dalhart. Their daughter Linda Elaine was born in December 1960.
Lynn was involved in many Dalhart groups and activities over the years, including the PTA, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, XIT Melodrama, Dalhart Band Boosters, and many others. After her children were older, Lynn became an integral part of the family’s theater business. But most meaningful for her was her lifelong service as an active member of Central United Methodist Church where she was a faithful member of the choir for 40 years.
Lynn was preceded in death by her parents and her younger sister Rosalie, and her husband Don. She is survived by her son Douglas of Lansing, Kansas; her daughter Lea Ann Scholfield of Huntington Beach, California; her daughter Linda Puckett of Syracuse, Kansas; and their spouses Melinda Gilbert, John Scholfield, and Keith Puckett. She is also survived by her grandchildren Kimberly Gilbert Blackwolf, Michael Naddor, Keith McKean, Kathleen Gilbert, Sean Gilbert, and Natalie Scholfield; and by two great-grandchildren, Wynter Bristol and Silas McKean.
As an option to flowers, the family requests donations to the Building Fund at Central United Methodist Church, or other Dalhart charity such as Meals on Wheels, the Dalhart Cemetery Fund, etc.
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