Mr. Ira David Gilmore's Obituary
Ira David Gilmore
A native Texan, David was born November 18, 1934 in Houston.
A devoted educator throughout his entire life, upon graduating from Sam Houston State Teachers College he served as the head of the Boys Physical Education Department and teacher of trigonometry and geometry at Lutheran High School in Houston. Coach Gilmore later went on to teach algebra and other disciplines of mathematics at Pearland High School as he continued coaching boys’ sports. His commitment to education was further evidenced by years of lay teaching in the Pearland United Methodist Church.
In the early 1970s he successfully transitioned to owning and managing a Sinclair retail operation in south east Houston. When Atlantic Richfield acquired Sinclair and withdrew support for retail operations in Texas David again moved to a career counseling small business owners in tax and accounting matters for over thirty years with E.K. Williams Company in Houston.
As his family kept vigil on Monday evening, August 3, 2015, at the age of eighty years, Mr. Gilmore died suddenly of complications of septic shock after receiving a day and a half of dedicated and extraordinary care from expert professionals at Memorial Hermann Memorial City Hospital in Houston, Texas.
David was preceded in death by his wife of 53 years, Carolyn Bailey Gilmore, his parents, Ira Everett Gilmore and Hilda Marie Bauer Gilmore Owens, sister and brother-in-law Dolores and Douglas Wilson and many treasured aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents.
He is survived by his beloved family including son, Brian Gilmore; daughter Genaye and husband Rob Corzatt; grandchildren Benjamin, Natalie and Joshua Corzatt; sister-in-law Elyndabeth and husband Frank Toland; nephew Blake Toland, his children Dalton, Chase and Seth Toland; niece Lynn Wilson Cope, her son Jeff Cope; nephew David Wilson, and his children Shane, Noah, Mary Catherine and Emma.
Funeral services will be held on Friday, August 7, 2015, at 12:30pm, at South Park Funeral Home in Pearland, the Rev. Dr. George Wilson officiating. Interment will follow immediately in South Park Cemetery.
The family looks forward to receiving visitors from 5pm-8pm at the funeral home on Thursday, August 6, 2015.
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