TRUSSELL, LILLIAN S., 86, of Gulfport, died Thursday (Sept. 21, 2006) at St. Anthony?s Hospital. Born in Mooresville, N.C., she came here in 1970 from
Massachusetts. She worked for residential construction companies in
Virginia and
New York City. Locally, she was a member and past president of
Friends of the Gulfport City Library, the Suncoast
Chapter of Self Help for Hard of
Hearing People and the National Genealogy Society. She was a life member of the Garden Club of St. Petersburg and the Jungle Circle and a member of St. Vincent?s Episcopal Church, where she was past president of St. Margaret?s
Guild. She conducted speech reading classes at the Gulfport
Senior Center. Survivors include a stepdaughter, Carolyn L. Braine,
New York City; a nephew, Jon W. White, St. Petersburg; six grandnephews, Joe, Jay, Jamie, David, Jon and
Matt White; four grandnieces, Kay
Muhlbaier, Wendy
Hedeen, Becky
Sullivan and
Carey White; and caregivers, Joe and Gloria
Griffith. Anderson
McQueen Funeral & Cremation Centers-Tyrone
Chapel