Obituary of Shirley A. Gillette Miss Gillette was born June 24, 1935 in the Town of Barre, a daughter of Homer and Helen (Klinke) Gillette; she had lived for most of her life in Rochester. She worked at Eastman Kodak for 34 years, retiring from there in the mid-1980s. Shirley loved her cats as well as flowers and gardening and also was an avid follower of local drum corps events.