Sybil Gilstrap Wattner took her last breath Thursday morning, April 4, 2023. She was 100 years old.
Born July 29, 1922, in Batson, Sybil was the seventh child (by seven years) of Daniel Luther Gilstrap and Bessie Lee Shackleford Gilstrap. Most of her happy childhood was spent on a farm in Dickens before moving to Kilgore where she went to school at Leverett’s Chapel (three years prancing with the b…