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Gibson

Jun 25, 1913 — Jan 12, 2008

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Age 94, Lawton - Funeral services will be 11:00 AM Wednesday at First Christian Church with Dr. R. Nathan Grantham officiating. Mrs. Gibson died Saturday in Lawton. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens under the direction of Becker Funeral Home. She was born June 25, 1913 in Northville, South Dakota to Richard Ellis and Jennie Louise (Batteen) Vance. At the age of 9 she moved with her family to Missouri. She graduated from Chillicothe High School in 1930 and from Chillicothe Business College in 1931. She married James M. Gibson on June 26, 1932 in Carrollton, Missouri. He died August 17, 1994. She moved with her family to Lawton in 1946. Since that time she had been an active member of the First Christian Church, the Chapel Class and the Christian Women's Fellowship. She held several offices in the CWF, was a Church Board Member and was made a Deaconess Emeritus in 1985. She was a charter member of the Lawton Book and Play Review Club, a past member of the Pansy Garden Club and the Lawton Knife and Fork Club. She and her husband traveled extensively throughout the U.S. and internationally. She was an avid bridge player and reader. Survivors include her daughter and son-in-law, Judy and Fred Warden, Bluff Dale, Texas, a granddaughter and her husband, Susie and Chris Sievers, two great grandsons, Clayton Sievers and Tommy Sievers, all of Arlington, Texas and a nephew and his wife, Vance and Paula Morris, Pineville, Louisiana. She is preceded in death by a brother, Raymond Vance and a sister, Maxine Morris Memorial contributions may be made to the Memorial Trust Fund at First Christian Church, 701 S.W. D Ave., Lawton, OK 73501

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