Guy Gammill, Walter Gosser, and Mike Hill perform on the Ozark Folk Center stage.
This Ozark Folk Center 50th Anniversary Legacy Photo is sponsored in memory of Guy Gammill by his family--Allie, Tim, Paula, Terry, Phyllis, grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Guy Gammill was a self-taught musician. He played the guitar, upright bass, and piano. He loved to play and sing at various events in Mountain View as well as in area churches. He was a member of several local blue grass bands and played with a group called the “Gospel Grass” with Jim Bullard, Walter Gosser and Jerry Hale.
Like many Stone County musicians, Guy often played in church. The group, “The Gospel Three” included Guy, Veaner Brewer, Danny Lemay with Bill Freeze on the fiddle. They played in many area churches. Later, he led music and sang at the Abundant Life Church. He especially enjoyed singing with his friend, L. J. Treat. According to his family, His passion for music gave him some of his greatest joys.
Guymon Gammill and his wife Allie Beach Gammill were both born in Stone County, but like many Stone County residents, they lived and worked out of state for a number of years. In the mid 1950s Guy moved to Kansas where he worked for Boeing Aircraft for several years. Eventually, He transferred to Louisiana where he operated an overhead crane as part of NASA’s Saturn V Moon Rocket construction. Missing the hills of West Stone County, Guy moved his wife and young boys back to Arkansas in 1966. He also began Gammill Oil Company, which was later owned and operated by his sons, Terry and Tim. He and Allie owned and operated a cattle farm for over twenty years.
Entry based on interviews with the Gammill family.
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