Giberson, Thomas Hugh 1914-2005

GIBERSON, PECK, KIRK, BYERS, NICHOLS, GRIFFIN, WEAVER, CARTER, RIDGEWAY, BAKER

Posted By: Debbie Nash - Volunteer (email)
Date: 3/17/2005 at 18:25:59

Thomas Hugh Giberson
March 15, 2005

Thomas Hugh Giberson, 90, of Keosauqua, died at 6:12 p.m. Monday, March 14, 2005, at his home.

The funeral will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at Pedrick Funeral Home in Keosauqua, with the Rev. Bill Shewmaker officiating. Burial will be in Fellows Cemetery in Keosauqua.

Open visitation will begin at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home with family present from 7-8 p.m.

Memorials to Keosauqua Christian Church may be left at the funeral home or mailed to the family at 916 Country Lane Drive, Apt. 11, Keosauqua 52565.

Mr. Giberson was born July 26, 1914, near Stockport, the son of Thomas Jesse and Issie Peck Giberson. He married Helen Kirk Aug. 22, 1936, in Monmouth, Ill.

He farmed in the Stockport area and retired to Keosauqua, where he was an active member of Keosauqua Christian Church.

Survivors include his wife; one daughter, Diane Byers and husband Joseph of Naples, Fla.; one son, Lance Giberson and wife Gloria of Keosauqua and Mission, Texas; six grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and five sisters, Meda Nichols of Mount Union, Mada Griffin and Helen Weaver, both of Fairfield, Betty Carter of Eureka Springs, Ark., and Hazel Ridgeway of Keosauqua.

He was preceded in death by his parents and one sister, Maymie Baker.

Courtesy of the Fairfield Daily Ledger Inc. 2005