GIBSON, John: Died 1970

GIBSON, TAYLOR, CONNER, NEWELL

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Date: 4/14/2020 at 19:23:22

John Gibson

John Gibson, age 78, son of R.A. and Mary Taylor Gibson, was born Aug. 1, 1891 at Milton, Iowa and died at 9 a.m. April 21, 1970 at the Davis County Hospital in Bloomfield, where he had been a patient about four weeks.

On July 7, 1920 he married Mabel Conner at Girard, Kansas.

He worked as a barber, a painter and meat cutter, mainly in the Milton community where he lived most of his life.

He was a veteran of World War I and was a member of Old Gold Chapter 19 Disabled American Veterans.

He was preceded in death by his parents, four brothers and two sisters.

Survivors include his wife of Milton; one brother, Alvin, of Kalamazoo, Mich.; five nephews; one niece; and a sister-in-law, Mrs. Sophia Newell of Kalamazoo, Michigan; other relatives and friends.

Services were held Thursday, April 23 at the Wellborn Funeral Home at Milton, Rev. Herbert E. Phillips officiated. Interment was in Sunnyside Cemetery.

Source: "Slutts Book", Page 400, Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, IA