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From the Topeka (Kansas) Daily State Journal, Tuesday March 12, 1929:
"DEATH OF W. H. GILFILLAN"
Former City Employee Had Lived Here for 45 Years.
William Henry Gilfillan, 83, for 45 years a resident of Topeka, died at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry B. Fraser, 1412 Lane street, Monday night.
Mr. Gilfillan had been identified with the meat-packing industry in and near Topeka for more than thirty-five years. He formerly was city food and scale inspector. He came to this city from Millerstown, Pa., in 1884.
He was first employed by the Kansas Packing Co., of Kansas City, Kan., and later, as cattle buyer, by the Wolff Packing Co., Topeka. In 1898, after serving as Topeka representative of the Dold Packing Co., of Wichita, Mr. Gilfillan became branch manager for Morris & Co., of St. Joseph, Mo., and served in that capacity nearly 10 years.
From 1913 to 1922, Mr. Gilfillan was city food and scale inspector. He was salesman for the Kaw Packing company, of Topeka, in 1922, until his retirement. In 1926, following the death of Thomas Morris, city scale inspector, he returned to that office for several months.
Mr. Gilfillan was a member of the First Presbyterian church and for forty years had been a member of A. O. U. W. lodge No. 244.
Surviving are one son, Charles A. [sic: should be Robert] Gilfillan, assistant general livestock agent for the Santa Fe in Kansas City, Mo., and one daughter, Mrs. John Holman Weiser, of Mifflintown, Pa. His wife died ten years ago. Both the son and daughter had been in Topeka for the last two weeks, called by their father's illness.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday morning at 10:30 o'clock at the Wall-Diffenderfer mortuary. Burial will be in Mount Hope cemetery. The family requests that no flowers be sent."
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