Leo Gibson's Funeral SlatedANDREWS (Special) — Leo Gibson, 71, longtime resident of Eunice, N.M., died at 11:05 a.m. Thursday in Permian General Hospital at Andrews.Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday (MST) in the First Baptist Church at Eunice with the Rev. G. A. Magee, pastor, officiating.Graveside services will be at 4:30 p.m. Saturday in the Andrews Cemetery. Burial will be under direction of Singleton Funeral Home.Gibson had been a resident of Eunice the past 30 years, and was a native of Kansas. He retired from Sunray Oil Co. in 1957 after being a pumper for 22 years. He was a member of the First Baptist Church at Eunice.Survivors include his wife. Mary Josephine; a son, Lewis Doyle, Roswell; a sister, Mrs. Emma Ball of Glendale, Calif.; and two brothers, Bruce, Bcrkeley, Calif., and Wallace, Danville, Calif.
Leo Gibson was my grand-uncle on my mom's paternal side. I don't remember ever meeting any of my grand-uncles, but I remember attending one funeral, for Wallace "Hoot" Gibson (1905-1968). Our relationship with my mom's extended family was always kind of odd. We were super close to her immediate family, my grandparents and her siblings, visiting them frequently, but we almost never saw anyone else.
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