The trip was made in Nelda’s fully paid for 1970 yellow VW Bettle. In the fall of 1971 Nelda asked her father to drive her to Eugene, OR to attendīible College. She was preceded in death by her parents, Duewan (Tex) & Vera Gilmore of B.C. Nelda graduated from Eddyville High School in OR. Some of her early childhood was spent living on an acreage in Burnt Woods, OR in a log house. She had four siblings, Juanita “Nita” (Doug) Demorest, Carolyn Nordal, Eldon (Freida) Gilmore, Chris (Angie) Gilmore. Nelda went home to be with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, on May 22, 2023at the age of 76.