{"id":13173,"date":"2025-06-29T19:57:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T00:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=13173"},"modified":"2025-06-29T19:57:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T00:57:20","slug":"barbara-lee-gillam-86-of-montrose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/obits\/13173-barbara-lee-gillam-86-of-montrose\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Lee Gillam (86) of Montrose"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Barbara Lee Gillam, age 86, of Montrose, Illinois, passed away at 5:27 AM- Friday June 27, 2025, at HSHS Saint John\u2019s Hospital in Springfield, Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>Services celebrating Barbara\u2019s, life will be held at 11:00 AM \u2013 Wednesday, July 2, 2025, at the Meyer Funeral Home, 307 East Center Street (East Illinois Route 33) Dieterich, Illinois, with Zack Trimble officiating. The burial will be in Montrose Cemetery in Montrose, Illinois. A visitation for family and friends will be held from 5:00 to 7:00 PM \u2013 Tuesday, July 1, 2025, at the funeral home. In loving memory of Barbara, memorials may be made to the Dieterich Christian Church. The obituary can be viewed and condolences left at www.meyerfh.com.<\/p>\n<p>Barbara was born on March 6, 1939, in Saint Louis County, Missouri, the daughter of William P. and Emma Elizabeth (Wilson) Breck. She graduated from Normandy High School in Saint Louis, Missouri, with the Class of 1957. On April 19, 1958, she was united in marriage to Marvin Gillam, at the Marvin Park United Methodist Church. Barbara was a long-time attendee of the Dieterich Christian Church and a former member of the Effingham County Home Extension. She enjoyed quilting, sewing, and especially sharing paper crafts and making cards with and for family and friends. Barbara was loved by many and loved many in return.<\/p>\n<p>Barbara is survived by: Husband of 67 years \u2013 Marvin Gillam of Montrose, Illinois; Daughters \u2013 Mary (John) Derhake of Troy, Missouri and Barb Gillam of Saint Louis, Missouri; Grandchildren \u2013 Nichole Winslow, Allison (Chris) Holder, Jake (Niki) Derhake, Mindy (Patrick) Commean and Kara Sugar; Great Grandchildren \u2013 Bailee Winslow, T.J. Winslow, Forest Holder, Nova Derhake, Finn Derhake, Skylar Commean, and Chase Commean; Special Niece \u2013 Toni McMillion and Dear Friend \u2013 Clayton Kuhring.<\/p>\n<p>Barbara was preceded in death by her parents, special nephew Bill Sugar, great niece Vicki Sugar and a great nephew Randy Sugar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara died the morning of Friday, June 27<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13174,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obits"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Barbara Lee Gillam (86) of Montrose - Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/obits\/13173-barbara-lee-gillam-86-of-montrose\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Barbara Lee Gillam (86) of Montrose - 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