Ovide Lee Gilmore, Jr. January 15, 1948 – June 30, 2022

Ovide Lee Gilmore, Jr.

January 15, 1948 – June 30, 2022

Ovide Lee Gilmore, Jr., age 74, of Gatesville passed away peacefully Thursday, June 30, 2022. Funeral services were held Thursday, July 7, at 3 p.m. at Scott’s Funeral Home. Burial followed at Levita Cemetery.

Ovide was born Jan. 15, 1948, in Dallas to the late Ovide Lee Gilmore, Sr. and Mary Ann Gumbert Gilmore. Ovide was a truck driver for many years. On May 31, 2008, he married the love of his life and soulmate, Hazel S. Drake. They shared almost eight years together until her passing in 2015.

Ovide was a simple man who enjoyed the simple pleasures of life. He loved to be outdoors with a glass of iced tea on a hot day. He liked to count deer and go backroading. He built models in his spare time and loved to tell his friends and family about stories of days gone by. Ovide enjoyed a quiet country life.

He was preceded in death by his beloved wife, Hazel S. Gilmore; his parents; Mary Ann Gumbert Gilmore Jackson and Ovide Lee Gilmore, Sr.; siblings, Raymond George Gilmore, Katie Inez Gilmore Wolf, Doris Ann Taylor Ritchie, Henry Leon Jackson, Elizabeth Ann Cockrum; and a daughter, Tamatha (Tammy) Ann Gilmore.

Ovide is survived by his children: Katrina Lynn Gilmore McIlroy, Amanda Jean Thomas and Phillip Douglas Lane; siblings, Barbara Marie Gilmore Davis, Sandra Sue Jackson, Mary Elsie Jackson Meshell and Dianna Lynne Potts; as well as many grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and his two doggies, Tiny and Chewy.