Services for Beulah Blanche Cotte Gilliland, 76, a former Blair girl, who died October 1, 1995, in Long Beach, California, were Thursday, October 5, at Oakdale Memorial Park in Glendora, California.

Beulah Blanche Cotte Gilliland was born March 11, 1919, in Shelby, Iowa. She graduated from Blair High School in 1937.

She and her husband, Charles M. Gilliland had been married 58 years at the time of her death.

She is survived by her husband, Charles; four children, Barbara Shoeman, Jeri Allen, Charlene Tolstead and Ronald Gilliland; four sisters; 15 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren.