Funeral services will be conducted 2:00 p.m. Friday in the chapel of Edmaiston-Mosley Funeral Home. Brother Jerrry Leggett and Brother Chip Davis will officiate. Burial will follow in Cobbs Chapel Cemetery in the Shawtown community.

The family will receive friends at Edmaiston-Mosley Funeral Home from 12:00 p.m. until the hour of services Friday.

Pallbearers will be Allen Smith, Carl Smith, Mike Ellis, Anthony Powell, Tommy Halliburton and Jimmy Gilliland.

Mrs. Gilliland was born September 11, 1931, in Obion County, daughter of the late Ollie Marvin Ransom and the late Nannie Jane (Simpson) Johnson. She married James Carl "J.C." Gilliland May 27, 1946. He died March 13, 2010. She was retired as a human services employee for the State of Tennessee. She was a member of Lake Road Baptist Church.

She is survived by two daughters, Patricia Smith Wiggins of South Fulton and Diana Gilliland of Union City; her son and daughter-in-law, James and Phyllis Gilliland of the Shawtown community; nine grandchildren, Jimmy Gilliland, Kenny Gilliland, Tammy White and Cheryl Brinkley, all of Union City, Tommy Halliburton of Troy, Laura Ellis of Dresden, Susan Powell of Birmingham, Alabama, Allen Smith of Martin and Carl Smith of Fulton, Kentucky; thirteen great-grandchildren; and four great-great grandchildren.

She was also preceded in death by two brothers, James Ransom and Jack Ransom; her son, Billy Carl Gilliland; and her granddaugher, Tina Moore.

Edmaiston-Mosley Funeral Home 731-885-1033