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Memorial Park Cemetery

Garfield County, Oklahoma


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© David Schram
Laura Frances Gibson
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© David Schram
Benjamin Ira "Hoot" Gibson


Obituary
Memorial Park
Garfield County, Oklahoma

Submitted by: David Schram


© Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home
Enid, Oklahoma
August 1985

Laura F. Gibson
January 12, 1886 ~ August 20, 1985


The funeral for Laura Frances Gibson, 99, 1410 W. Willow, will be at 10 AM Friday at the Chapel of Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home. The Rev Vernon Pendleton will officiate. Burial will be at Memorial Park Cemetery.

Mrs Gibson died Tuesday at a local nursing home. She was born January 12, 1886, in Missouri and came to Oklahoma in 1925, settling in Garber. She then lived in Perry for 20 years before moving to Enid in 1970.

The former Laura Crews, she married W. B. Gibson in 1902. He died in 1923.

Mrs Gibson was a member of the First Baptist Church in Perry.

Survivors include three daughters, Zelpha Drumheller, Fairview, Nettie Smothers and Della McDowell, both of Enid; a son, Lloyd Gibson, Sand Springs; six grandchildren; 25 great grandchildren, and 15 great great grandchildren.

Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by a son, a daughter and eight brothers and sisters.


Obituary
Memorial Park
Garfield County, Oklahoma

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Submitted by: Tommy Neatherly


© Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home
Enid, Oklahoma
November 3, 2008

Benjamin Ira "Hoot" Gibson
September 10, 1927 ~ November 1, 2008


The funeral for Benjamin Ira "Hoot" Gibson, 81, of Enid, will be 2 pm Wednesday, November 5, 2008, at Henninger-Hinson Funeral Home Chapel. Pastor Vernon Lee will officiate.

Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Family visitation will be 6 to 8 pm today, November 4, 2008, at the funeral home.

He was born September 10, 1927, to George Preston and Eathel Cronister Gibson and died Saturday, November 1, 2008, at St Mary's Regional Medical Center.

He married Mildred Frances Dillon in the late 1940s and then Ida Sue Gibson in 1982.

He worked in the oil fields all of his life. He served in the Philippines with the Army during World War II.

Surviving are six daughters, Emma Gibson, Louise Baker and Debbie Spoonemore, all of Pond Creek, Zelpha Elane Skaggs of Enid, Sheryl Ann Brittain of Medford, and Patty Ruth Eastes of Smith Center, Kansas; two sisters, Virginia Pritchett and Nellie Rose, both of Enid; 20 grandchildren; and 27 great grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Ida Sue, one daughter, four sisters, one brother and one granddaughter.


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