ALLAN (BUD) GILL
OBITUARY
Allan Bruce (Bud) Gill was born on August 16, 1954 at Topeka, Kansas and passed away on Thursday, March 16, 1995.
In 1957, he and his family moved to El Dorado, Kansas. He attended Grandview Grade School and El Dorado Junior High. He was active in the Methodist Church Boys Choir and Cub Scouting.
In 1967, he and his family moved to Lexington, Nebraska. He attended Lexington Junior and Senior High where he was active in football, wrestling, track and golf and was a member of the Boy Scouts of America, taking part in Canadian canoe trips and attending two national conventions.
He graduated from Lexington High School in the spring with the class of 1972 and worked in carpenter construction during the summer.
In the fall of 1972, he enrolled at Central Community College at Hastings for two years majoring in Construction Technology.
Following Central Community College, he worked at various jobs in Hastings then returned to Arapahoe for a brief period of time and began learning the newspaper and printing business. In 1978, the Gill family purchased the Elwood Bulletin and Bud became the editor of the Bulletin for about two years.
After two years of adventure and wanderlust, construction took his interest and he returned to highway construction in the Lexington Area. After those jobs closed down he followed the construction business to West Virginia.
While in West Virginia he met and married Tracy Barnhart on June26, 1982.
They returned to Nebraska and he worked for Art's Building and Supply for a period of time, in Elwood. They later moved to Kissimmee, Florida where he re-entered the highway construction field.
Bud returned to Nebraska in 1994 to work on the new ethanol plant at Blair but soon after returned to highway construction.
Three children, Justin, Jeremy and Jacob were born to Bud and Tracy.
According to the coroner's report, Bud was found dead in his apartment and the cause was attributed to a massive heart attack.
Survivors included his three sons, Justin, Jeremy and Jacob of Bethlehem, West Virginia; his parents, Mr. And Mrs. Ted Gill of Arapahoe; three sisters, Suzanne Knauss and husband Brian and children Ben and Tymesia of Springfield, Virginia; Lisa Linch and husband Jim and children Jacob and Rachael of Lexington; Gayle Schultz and husband Brad and children, Alex and Amanda of Arapahoe and his grandmother Verona Mulikin of Marion, Kansas.
Graveside services and·interment were at the Arapahoe Cemetery with Williamson Funeral Home of Arapahoe in charge of arrangements.
