Rosemary and David Gilbert

David Gilbert

Gilberts

Rosemary and David were married Aug. 1956. Dave was in the Army and on his way to Japan. Rosemary followed a few months later and their oldest son David was born in Tokyo. They returned to Corcoran where their other two children, Dennis and Melissa, were born. After a variety of jobs, Dave returned to school and graduated as a Civil Engineer in 1973 and went to work for Bechtel Power Corporation. From then on Bechtel kept the family on the move. They lived in the state of Washington, Maryland, Mississippi, Cairo Egypt, Georgia, and Pennsylvania.

They finally retired and settled in Baton Rouge, because all three children had graduated from LSU and lived there. All have since moved, one to Florida, one to Prairieville, LA. ( twenty minutes away ) and the other is off sailing the seven seas.

Then they got un-retired and for 14 years, Rosemary and Dave owned and operated a week-end flea market, where they had an antique store and old Lionel train shop. Now.. they have really retired. Antiques and toy trains are still their hobbies and they seem to always have a project in the works. At present, Dave is now building a garage for his boat in the back yard.

Their son David is a Civil Engineer, Dennis is a Chemical Engineer and Melissa has a degree in Business Administration and Computer Communications. The light of their life are their 3 children, a son-in-law and 2 daughters in laws, and 3 beautiful granddaughters and 3 handsome grandsons.

Our daughter and her husband have purchased a 38' catamaran. They sold their business, cars, house and everything else at a mother of all garage sales. Then sailed off in December of 2004 and have since visited the Florida keys, the Bahamas, US East Coast and finally the Caribbean with plans of spending this summer in the islands off Venezuela. At this time they are in Colón, Panama. They have an excellent web site at http://www.indigomoon.us

David lost Rosemary: His best friend, companion and love of his life on April 23, 2007.

2/22/08