GABBERT, Joyce Elvira PHILLIPS

GABBERT, PHILLIPS, CRONK, WHITE, VAN DE VOORDE, GILLESPIE

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 10/22/2009 at 20:22:51

"The Fairfield Ledger"
Friday, October 16, 2009
Page 12

Joyce PHILLIPS GABBERT

Joyce PHILLIPS GABBERT, 87, formerly of Fairfield, died Thurdsay, Oct. 15, 2009, at her Mississippi River home near Nauvoo, Ill.

A memorial service will be at 7 p.m. Monday at Nauvoo Presbyterian Church in Nauvoo, Ill., with the Rev. Mark Anderson officiating. A second service will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at First Presbyterian Church in Fairfield, with the Rev. Joseph Phipps officiating. Interment will be in Evergreen Cemetery in Fairfield.

Family members will greet friends at both services.

Memorials may be made to Compassion International, 12290 Voyager Parkway, Colorado Springs, CO, 80921, also found online at www.compassion.com .

Arrangements are in the care of Raymond Funeral Home in Fairfield.

Mrs. GABBERT was born July 5, 1922, near New Sharon, the daughter of Harry Watson PHILLIPS and Grace CRONK PHILLIPS. She married Dean GABBERT Oct. 9, 1942.

Mrs. GABBERT was a graduate of Parsons College. She was feature writer and columnist for The Fairfield Ledger for 20 years.

She was a member of Nauvoo Presbyterian Church, Chapter JO of PEO and Monday Study Club.

Survivors include her husband; four children, Deanne WHITE of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, John GABBERT of Winona, Minn., Gretchen VanDeVOORDE of Fairfield and Lisa GILLESPIE of Ottumwa; 13 grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren.

One sister and one grandson preceded her in death.

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"The Fairfield Ledger"
Monday, October 19, 2009
Page 8

Joyce Elvira PHILLIPS GABBERT

Joyce Elvira PHILLIPS GABBERT, 87, formerly of Fairfield, died Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009, at her Mississippi River home near Nauvoo, Ill.

A memorial service will be at 7 p.m. today at Nauvoo Presbyterian Church in Nauvoo, Ill., with the Rev. Mark Anderson officiating. A second service will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at First Presbyterian Church in Fairfield, with the Rev. Joseph Phipps officiating. Interment will be in Evergreen Cemetery in Fairfield.

Family members will greet friends at both services.

Memorials may be made to Compassion International, 12290 Voyager Parkway, Colorado Springs, CO, 80921, also found online at www.compassion.com .

Arrangements are in the care of Raymond Funeral Home in Fairfield.

Mrs. GABBERT was born July 5, 1922, near New Sharon, the daughter of Harry Watson PHILLIPS and Grace CRONK PHILLIPS. She was proud of her Iowa farm heritage, and she cherished memories of flying with her father in his Piper Cub. She married Dean GABBERT Oct. 9, 1942.

Mrs. GABBERT received her high school diploma at Lacey Consolidated School and her bachelor's degree at Parsons College. "I came to Fairfield in 1940 and I never went home," she laughed. First there was college, then marriage, children and 20 or so years as a member of The Fairfield Ledger news staff as a feature writer and columnist.

As a journalist, Joyce wrote with enthusiasm, emotion and humor. During the 1970s, she wrote a personal and popular column for the Ledger entitled "In Retrospect." Her front-page story about the closing of Parsons College in 1972 was a first-place winner in a newswriting competition sponsored by the Iowa Daily Press Association.

She was a member of Nauvoo Presbyterian Church, Chapter JO of PEO and Monday Study Club.

Survivors include her husband; four children, Deanne WHITE of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, John GABBERT of Winona, Minn., Gretchen VanDeVOORDE of Fairfield and Lisa GILLESPIE of Ottumwa; 13 grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren.

One sister and one grandson preceded her in death.

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Note: Buried in Lot 2nd.198. Husband Dean died in 2015.

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