Kathleen Kirk Gilmore, Dallas, research scientist and adjunct professor from 1975 to 1989, died March 18. After earning her doctorate in anthropology from Southern Methodist University at the age of 58, she became an authority on Spanish Colonial archaeology. She excavated a number of Spanish forts in Texas and was the first archaeologist to prove the location of La Salle’s Fort St. Louis. Gilmore was the first female president of the Society for Historical Archaeology, and president of the Texas Archaeological Society and the Council of Texas Archaeologists. She served on the Texas Board of Review and the board of the Texas Historical Foundation. In 1995, she was the first woman to receive the Harrington Medal in Historical Archaeology, and she received the Governor’s Award for Historical Preservation in 2008. She earned her bachelor’s degree in geology from Oklahoma University. At the time of her death at 95, she was continuing research that had recently taken her to Spain, for a book she was writing about a Spanish captain.