Charlie Moore Gillespie

Charlie Moore Gillespie, 68, of Huntsville, Ala, passed away at his residence on Tuesday, February 11, 2020. A memorial service is planned for Saturday, February 15, 2010 at 2 p.m. at Cockrell Funeral Home Chapel.  A visitation will be held one hour prior to the service. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the donor’s choice. Cockrell Funeral Home is honored to be entrusted with arrangements.

Charlie was born in Macon, MS to the late Silas Gillespie and Cornelia Parks Gillespie on September 20, 1951. He was a graduate of Noxubee High School and then continued his education at East Mississippi Junior College in Scooba, MS and later at Massey Junior College in Atlanta, Ga. He then furthered his major, Photojournalism, at the Art Institute of Atlanta. Charlie pursued his love photography all of his life, working as a Photojournalist at WCBI and also at WLBT television stations and was the Videographer and news editor at WAFF TV.  Charlie traveled all over the United States with the country music band “Alabama” as their videographer and then worked for a time with a radio Station in Huntsville. Later he went to work for NASA as a photographer chronicling rocket lift-offs. Charlie was always looking for ways to use photography as a medium to reach people and to this end he began photographing weddings and birthday celebrations. Charlie was a very kind-hearted man who never met a stranger. He remained lifelong friends with all of his classmates and with all the people that he worked with through the years. His legacy through his photo- and video-graphic work will live on through the years.

Charlie is survived by his cousin: Margaret Barnett Gary of Pearl, MS and Bruce Barnett (Linda) of Columbus, MS.