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- The Highland Recorder, Monterey, VA, Thursday, 5 Nov 1964, p. 1, col. A
Services Held For Dennis Gum
Dennis Hamilton Gum, 82, retired farmer of Vanderpool, died at 8:15 a. m. Monday, Nov. 2. in the home of his daughter, Mrs. W. T. Sellers in Churchville, after an illness of three years.
The son of Peter and Nancy Jane Dever Gum, he was born Sept. 13, 1882 at Meadowdale, and lived his entire life in Highland County. He was a member of the Pisgah Presbyterian Church, where he served as deacon and then elder.
Mr. Gum is survived by his wife, Mrs. Bessie Peterson Gum, whom he married Jan. 22, 1912; one daughter, Mrs. Whitfield T. (Mary Jane) Sellers of Churchville; a granddaughter, Rebecca Scott Sellers, Anderson College, Montreat, N. C.; two grandsons, Dennis Whitfield Sellers, Fort Polk, La., and Harry Peterson Sellers, Churchville; several nieces and a nephew.
Funeral services were held on Wednesday at the Bear Funeral Home in Churchville, conducted by the Rev. Thomas E. Henderson, pastor of the Loch Willow Presbyterian Church, Churchville. Burial was in the Monterey Cemetery. The Rev. A. E. Johnson, of Huttonsville, a former pastor, conducted the service at the grave.
Active pallbearers were Hale Wilson, Meade Wilson, A. P. Gum, Knox Gum, Frank Bird and Galen Back; honorary, members of the Men's Bible Class of Pisgah Church and George Graham, C. H. Judy and Bruce Dolly.
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