Obituaries:  Joseph Andrew Gibson, Jr., Sabine, Natchitoches Parish       G-125
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Apr 11, 1985
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Joseph Andrew Gibson, Jr.

  Services for Mr. Joseph Andrew Gibson, Jr., 59, of Natchitoches,
were held at 2 p.m., Friday, April 5, at the Old Bethel Baptist
Church near Natchitoches. The Rev. Richard Gillespie officiated.
Burial, with Masonic and military graveside rites, was at Old
Bethel Cemetery. Plans were under the direction of Blanchard-St.
Denis Funeral Home in Natchitoches.

  Mr. Gibson died Wednesday, April 3, 1985, at the Veterans
Administration Medical Center in Shreveport, La. He was a retired
school bus driver for the Natchitoches Parish School Board, and
was a veteran of World War II. Mr. Gibson was a poultry farmer.
He was a member of the Robeline Masonic Lodge No. 344. He was a
native of Demmings, N. M. He was preceded in death by a son,
William Eugene Gibson.

  He is survived by his wife, Naomi Nelson Gibson of Natchitoches;
three sons, Edward Gibson of Robeline, David Gibson of
Natchitoches, and Joey Allen of Robeline; two daughters, Betty
Broadway, and Dorothy Ammons of Natchitoches; his mother, Annie
Ringer Gibson of Natchitoches; three sisters, Annie Easley of
Luling, La., Ruth Cross of Metairie, La., and Martha Beckwith of
Minneapolis, Minn.; three brothers, Robert H. Gibson, and Chester
Gibson of Natchitoches; and Walter Aubrey Gibson of Atlanta, Ga.;
seven grandchildren.