Gibbs, Oren Smith 1856-1937

GIBBS, PULSIFER, CRAMMOND, HUMISTON, WICKERTSHEIMER, BLAIR

Posted By: Jane Hogue (email)
Date: 3/17/2005 at 12:17:17

PASSING OF OREN S. GIBBS TUESDAY AFTERNOON
Last Rites Held at Late Home This Afternoon.

O.S. Gibbs, 80, a resident of Morning Sun the past thirty-one years, died at Mercy hospital in Burlington Tuesday afternoon, July 20. He had been ill for several months.

The funeral services were held from his late home in Morning Sun this Thursday afternoon, conducted by Rev. H. G. Patterson of the Reformed Presbyterian church. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Brown sang. The interment was at Elmwood cemetery. The pallbearers were grandsons, Lyle Gibbs, Merle Gibbs, Dale Gibbs, Orval Gibbs, Harold Gibbs and Earl Blair.

The following relatives from out-of-town were called here for the funeral services: Mrs. Emma Pulsifer and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Gibbs and little daughter of Elmwood, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. John Gibbs, Mr. and Mrs. Orval Gibbs, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Gibbs of Grinnell, Iowa; Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Gibbs of New London; Mr. and Mrs. Lester Gibbs and Mr. and Mrs. Merle Gibbs of Mt. Union; Mr. and Mrs. V. B. Crammond and daughters Velma and Mrs. Paul Humiston of Wapello, and a host of friends from the surrounding community.

Oren Smith Gibbs was born at Elmwood, Ill., Oct. 14, 1856. He was married Dec. 21, 1881, to Carrie Wickertsheimer at Williamstown, New York. To this union were born two sons, Lucian of Morning Sun, and John C. of Grinnell, Iowa. Ten grandchildren and seven great grandchildren are also living. Mr. and Mrs. Gibbs lived in Illinois until they moved to the Mt. Union community in Iowa in 1888, locating on a farm west of Morning Sun, moving to this city seventeen years later.

Mr. and Mrs. Gibbs celebrated their golden wedding five years ago and their 55th wedding anniversary last December. They had made their home in Morning Sun for the last thirty-one years.

Mr. Gibbs was a faithful member of the church for many years and loved the services of God’s house. He lived a clean, quiet, steady and industrious life. For more than seven months before his death he had been confined to his bed, but through all his suffering and weakness there was no complaining, but instead strong faith in Christ his Saviour, and perfect resignation to God’s will and readiness to go whenever the call came. The end came peacefully. “Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace."