Charles Winferd Tilman, 75, Gainesville, formerly of St. Joseph, died Monday, Sept. 24, 2001, at a health-care center in Gainesville following a brief illness.
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Funeral service for Charles Tilman, brother of Cleo Tillman of Gallatin, will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday at Robertson-Drago Funeral Home, West Plains. Burial will be at Fowler Cemetery,
Caulfield.
Charles Winferd Tilman, 75, Gainesville, formerly of St. Joseph, died Monday, Sept. 24, 2001, at a health-care center in Gainesville following a brief illness.
Mr. Tilman was born in Dora. He had lived in the Ozarks before moving to Rockford, Ill.; St. Joseph and Clinton in 1972. After his retirement, he returned to the Ozarks.
He served in the Navy during World War II.
Mr. Tilman had owned and operated Tilman’s TV Repair Shop in St. Joseph. Later he worked as a salesman in Clinton. After returning from military service, he also had been employed in the Ozarks.
On May 7, 1948, he married Dixie B. Postle. She survives of the home.
Mr. Tilman was preceded in death by two brothers, Gilbert E. and Eugene; and a sister, Letty Tilman.
Other survivors include three sons, Steven and Ronald, both of Kansas City, and Bobby, Gainesville; a daughter, Barbara Miller, St. Joseph; three other brothers, Alva Tilman, Mountain View, Kenneth Tilman, Green Ridge, and Ellis Tilman, Sedalia; four sisters, Velma Ellis, St.
Joseph, Clara Forgette, Conway, Rose Chesnut, Mansfield, and Wanda Moehring, Fenton, and eight grandchildren.