Catherine Joan Gilmore

SHERMAN TEXAS-Catherine Joan (Joan) Gilmore died May 25, 2023, in Sherman, Texas after a brief illness. She was born in Williamstown, Vermont on August 24th, 1941, the fifth and youngest child of John and Catherine McIntyre. After losing both of her parents by the age of fifteen, Joan moved to Germany to live with her older sister Patsy and her family, attending high school at the American School in Nuremberg, Germany Like her sisters before her, Joan played basketball in high school, When the coach wanted her on the team in Nuremburg, she was able to use her basketball skills to negotiate her way out of the obligation to participate in other sports during the basketball off-season. Upon graduating high school, she returned to the United States to attend Syracuse University. During her freshman year, she met Robert (Bob) Gilmore who was attending Cornell University. Joan and Bob married in May 1961. Just over a year later, they had their first daughter, Bonnie, followed by Anne a year later and Kelly...