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Eldridge Gilbert (Reverend) – 1991 obituary plus article

January 10, 2017Jan

Source: Rockford Register Star 2 -1 – 1991

Addresses, African-Americans, Association, Cemetery, Churches, Clubs, Events, Fraternal Order, General, Societies 1793 S. Central ave., 32nd Degree Mason, attended Kent Elementary School, awarded honorary doctorate of human letters from Rockford College 1986, bachelors degree in humanities from Beloit College, bachelors degree in theology from American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, born 10-27-1912 in New Orleans, call to ministry 1940, Chicago Teachers Junior College, designed Pilgrim Baptist Church 30 years ago, died Jan. 26 1991, Eldrige Gilbert, Eldrige Gilbert Jr., equal rights for Blacks and Rockford's Disadvantaged, first Black president Greater Rockford Clergy Association, first Black to dine in Nelson Hotel 1948, graduate Rockford High School, Greenwood Cemetery, Isador Behr, Lucille M. Roebuck Funeral Home, married Anne Lee Wilson-Allen after widowed, married Irene Penn in Rockford 1939, Martin luther King 1963 March on Washington D.C., Mayor Charles Box, Rev. Dr. Eldridge Gilbert, Rev. Dr. Eldridge Harold Eugene Gilbert Sr., Rev. Eldridge H. E. Gilbert, Rev. Francis P. McNally, Rev. Gilbert, Rev. Steve Bland, Rockford Alderman Victory Bell, Rockford Bishop Arthur J. O'Neil, son of David H. and Corazine Gilbert, That Men Know So Little of Men by Barbara Chapman, traveled to Africa and Middle East 1968, Winnebago County Sheriff Don Gasparini

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