Clara (Trowbridge) Gibbs (1926)

TROWBRIDGE, GIBBS, PHILLIP, BELL, CHAMBER, WEIDT, SCHIRM, MOORE, HUTCHINSON, HORNEY

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 3/1/2017 at 07:16:28

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, April 29, 1926
Page 7

Clara Trowbridge Gibbs, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Trowbridge, was born at Patterson, Iowa, May 3rd, 1889. She taught school in Iowa and in 1908 joined her father and family in Yates Center, Kansas. Clara taught there several years, and in 1919 was married to James Gibbs, and they moved to Independence, where they lived until her death on April 13, 1926, of heart trouble and complications, after being sick three months. Left to mourn are her husband, her son, James Jr., her parents, eight sisters, Mrs. L. P. Phillip, Seneca, Kansas, Mrs. Carl Bell, Earlham, Mrs. Frank Chamber, Ottawa, Kansas, Mrs. Emily Weidt, Yates Center, Mrs. Ed Schirm, Winterset, Mrs. C. Moore, Salmon, Idaho, Mrs. A. B. Hutchinson, Kansas City and Mrs. Lee Horney of Yates Center.

Mrs. Gibbs was a young woman of great charm, was a successful school teacher, and after her marriage made a good home for her husband and young son. She was interested in religious work, and taught a class in Sunday school of the First Methodist church at Independence. A brief service was held at the home in Independence, conducted by her pastor, the Rev. Fred Bailey, and the funeral party motored to Yates Center where the funeral was held in the Methodist church.

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