Jimmie Carl Gilbert

Jimmie Carl Gilbert

June 25, 1937 - September 11, 2021

Jimmie Carl Gilbert was born on June 25th, 1937 to Roy and Mildred Gilbert in Whittier, CA.

Moved to Midlothian, Texas in 1942.

He went to school all through Senior year and graduated from MHS in 1955.

The summer of 1955, he played baseball in Larned, KS for the Brooklyn Dodgers "Farm Team".

That fall, he started college at Howard Payne University in Brownwood, TX, and then transferred to TCU in Fort Worth his sophomore year and graduated in 1959.

On September 4th of 1959 he married his childhood neighbor and high school sweetheart, Elvadine Lawson. They were married for 62 years and 7 days. Jim gave Elvadine the nickname "DENE" while in high school, and she has gone by that name since they married.

Eight months later, Jim was drafted into the US Army and served in Fort Hood, TX, Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indiana, Fort Knox, KY, and then spent 16 months in Seoul, Korea. Jim played both basketball and baseball in the Army. His only service injury was a broken leg from a bad layup!

After returning from Korea, he and Dene moved to Dallas, TX where he worked for two different insurance companies in Dallas. During his time with Service Review, they transferred to; East Orange, NJ, Houston, TX, Jackson, MS. In 1971, he went to work for USAA in San Antonio, TX. Then in 1973, he joined his brother-in-law, Howard Hafner, in beginning Insurance Recruiters in Dallas.

He was preceded in death by his mother and father, Roy Wade and Mildred Uselton Gilbert, and his brother, Ron Gilbert.

He is survived by his wife, Dene Lawson Gilbert, his son Derek and wife Shela, and their son Brandon; his son Dennis Wayne Gilbert; Jim's daughter, Keri Livingston, her husband Dennis Livingston, and Grandsons (the light of is life), Gilbert Harris and wife Mari Livingston, and Benjamin Douglas Livingston.