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Ralph P. Gibson

GIBSON, BARNES, MOORE, GILBRECH, TERRELL

Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 6/25/2006 at 16:17:32

Winterset Madisonian
1969

RALPH P. GIBSON DIES IN DES MOINES

Ralph P. Gibson of Des Moines, a retired Madison county farmer died Tuesday, Dec. 24 in Des Moines. He was 83 years of age.

Mr. Gibson was a Madison county resident for 70 years. He was a native of Muscatine county, where he was born March 13, 1885, a son of George and Susie Barnes Gibson. He came to this community with his parents as a child. His active life was spent in farming until he retired in 1956 and moved to Des Moines. There he had worked for the Toby Ann Riding Stables.

He was married March 17, 1912 at Winterset to Effie A. Moore. Her death occurred in 1958.

Nearest surviving relatives are sister, Mrs. Blanche Gilbrech of Winterset, and a niece Mrs. Kenneth Terrell of Des Moines.

Funeral services were held here Friday from the Collins Funeral home, conducted by the Rev. William E. Bowles, pastor of the First Christian church here. Burial was made in the Winterset cemetery.


 

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