June 21, 1929 – Dec. 8, 2015
Helen Fay Sommers Gilliland, 86, died peacefully Dec. 8, 2015 in Bend.
She was born June 21, 1929 in Independence to Frank and Rita (Lundholm) Sommers, the oldest of three children. She was raised in Sweet Home, where she meet her husband, Carl Vernon Gilliland. They were married in Vancouver, Wash. on June 28, 1949 and moved to Chicago, Ill., where Mr. Gilliland was stationed in the Navy.