- Date Of Birth: October 10, 1908
- Date Of Death: July 8, 2006
- State: Louisiana
William Scott (W.S.) Gilfoil, 97, died Saturday, July 8, at Christus St. Josephs Assisted Care. A resident of Start, (Crew Lake) LA for the past twenty-four years. Born the oldest child of William Riley Gilfoil and Elizabeth Bullus Scott at the family farm in Omega, LA in Madison Parish on October 10, 1908.
Married the one true love of his life Katherine Noel of Shreveport, LA on October 10, 1929.
Graduated with a B.S. in 1928 from Louisiana State University, A M.S. in Chemistry from Loyola of the South in New Orleans in 1932.
Working as a Professor of Chemistry at Loyola University 1930 – 1933, Arkansas Fuel Oil Corp. in Shreveport as a Grease Plant Chemist 1929 – 1937, South Puerto Rico Sugar Co. in Puerto Rico as a Special Chemist in 1928-1929,
In 1937 transplanted his wife and three young daughters to the Philippines Island. As a Chief Chemist and Plant Superintendent at North Negros Sugar Co. in Manila. In 1941 his fourth daughter was born, prior to the invasion of the Philippines by the Japanese. William and Katherine along with their four daughters spent the next three years as Prisoners of War (Internees) of the Japanese until their liberation at the hands of American Troops under Gen. Douglas Macarthur in 1945.
Returning home to Omega, La to go on to an illustrious and fulfilling career with DuPont Living in Delaware 1945- 1970.
A fifth child, his only son and constant companion was born in 1948.
He was preceded in death by his parents and five siblings; his wife of sixty-seven years, Katherine Noel Gilfoil in 1995 and his oldest daughter, Kathryn Elizabeth (Betty Kay) Drouant of Lafayette born in 1930.
He is survived by three daughters, Mary Louise (Pamela) Miglio of Jefferson, N.Y. born 1933, Patricia Ann and husband, Bill Carroll of Wilmington, Delaware born 1935 and Lyda Alice and husband, Isidro Hernandez of Taos, New Mexico born 1941; a son, Michael William Edward Gilfoil of Monroe, LA born 1948. His special friend and son-in-law, Lou Drouant of Lafayette, LA; seventeen grandchildren; twenty-four great grandchildren and one great-great grandchild; many nephews and nieces and a large extended family living throughout LA; special friends, Aubrey and Charleen Trisler of Crew Lake, LA and Theo J. Coenen, III of Rayville, LA.
