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Betty Edmisson Gillum
Date of Death or Service Jul 30, 2018
Visitation will be held on Wednesday, August 1, 2018 beginning at 12 noon. Funeral services will be conducted at 4pm on Wednesday from the chapel of Taylor Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Dickson County Memorial Gardens.

Betty Edmisson Gillum – Age 83 of Dickson passed away at home on July 30, 2018.

Mrs. Gillum is preceded in death by her husband Charles Neil Gillum; siblings, Thomas Edmisson, Emmett Edmisson, Marie Brown, and Katherine Thompson.

She is survived by her son, Darrell Edmisson of Dickson; grandchildren, Crystal Blackwell (Larry) of Dickson and Darren Edmisson of Dickson; great-grandson, Noah Malachi Blackwell; siblings, Douglas Edmisson of Dickson, Kenneth Edmisson of Dickson, Mildred Penoli of El Paso, TX, Sandra Whittinghill of Dickson and Peggy Anderson of Dickson.

Betty was a 1953 graduate of Dickson High School where she played basketball. Basketball was always a love of her life. She was a huge Pat Summit and Lady Vol fan. She enjoyed bowling and anything to be competitive.  

She was born in 1935 to the late Emmett Lee and Myrtle Elva Edmisson. Growing up, Betty was instilled the values of hard work as she and her siblings took great loving care of each other. That love and care that was passed on to her by her parents and siblings taught her to be a loving mother and the meaning of true family values. She worked hard as an adult and spent 32 years with the State of Tennessee Employment office in Dickson.

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