GIBSON, Mayne Catherine: Died 1957

GIBSON, MARTIN, WISE, ENGLAND, MCKEE

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Date: 8/15/2016 at 19:34:24

**Handwritten: 1957

Mayme Catherine Gibson

Mayme Catherine Gibson, daughter of George Martin and Jane Martin Wise, was born September 21, 1889, at Lebanon, Iowa; and passed away at the Bloomfield Hospital, June 6, 1957 at the age of sixty-seven years and nine months.

She attended the Keosauqua schools and later the Bloomfield Normal school, where she was graduated with the commercial class. After graduation, she taught short-hand and typing in the Iowa Success School at Ottumwa, Iowa until her marriage to Ray Talbott in November 1912. Mr. Talbott passed away in the summer of 1913.

Mrs. Gibson was very artistic. She owned and operated a millinery store in Milton for a number of years, but later left to do clerical work for a large stationery concern in Salt Lake City. A few years later she returned to Milton and in June 1927 was united in marriage to Chandler B. Gibson. Mr. and Mrs. Gibson lived in Coon Rapids, Iowa; where Mrs. Gibson was active in Womans Federations Club Work as well as other civic organizations. Mr. Gibson passed away in 1941.

Mrs. Gibson returned to Milton and cared for her mother until her death in 1943. She, then, went to Los Angeles where she was employed by the Avon Company, but because she always felt that Milton was home she returned to her home in 1948. Soon after her return she suffered a stroke from which she never fully recovered. She spent unlimited time with her brother in Texas and her sister in Maryland, but was always anxious to return home.

Mayme, as she was familiarly known, had a sincere feeling for people. She was kind and generous and a good friend to many. She did many things which were unknown except to those personally involved. She always remembered special days, illnesses of others, and bereavements. She enjoyed being with people and in her passing there is a strong tie broken especially in her immediate family.

Her parents and a brother preceded her in death many years ago. She leaves behind to remember her as a person of fine qualities, her brother, George Martin of Bellaire, Texas; and a sister, Mrs. Elsie England of Baltimore, Maryland; two nephews, First Lt. George England of the U.S. Army and Charles England of Baltimore, Maryland; her aunt, Mrs. Clyde McKee of Troy, Iowa, and a number of cousins and friends.

Funeral services were held at the Wellborn Funeral Home, Sunday, June 9, 1957 at 2 p.m. with the Rev. Harold Harryman of Milton officiating. Interment was in Sunnyside Cemetery.

Source: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Obituary Book G, Page 165, Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, IA