Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Epps, Irene Gibbs  August 16, 1991
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Virginian-Pilot, The (Norfolk, VA) - Tuesday, August 20, 1991 
Evangelist and Radio Minister

Evangelist Irene Gibbs Epps, 68, of the 1800 block of Montclair Ave., died Aug. 
16, 1991, in a hospital.
Mrs. Gibbs was born in Chocowinity, N.C. For the past two years she had a 
weekly radio ministry program on WZBQ-AM in Greenville, N.C. She was a member 
and eldress of Morning Glory Apostolic Faith Holiness Church. She had formerly 
served as an evangelist for St. Mark Apostolic Church in Norfolk, and for 
churches in North Carolina, Delaware and New York City. She was also a retired 
domestic worker and was the widow of Kirkland Epps.
Survivors include a daughter, Irene M. Harris of Suffolk; her father, the Rev. 
Thomas Gibbs of Washington, D.C.; three sisters, Dolly M. Baker of Colonial 
Heights, Dorothy G. Elliot and J. Patricia G. Cosely, both of Petersburg; four 
brothers, Sylvester Howard of Jacksonville, N.C., Vice Bishop Robert L. Gibbs 
of Spring Hope, N.C., Cliffton E. Gibbs of Chocowinity and Danny L. Gibbs Sr. 
of Bridgeport, Conn.; three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
The funeral will be conducted at 1 p.m. Wednesday in New Hope Church of God in 
Christ by the Rev. Herman Clark. Burial will be in Magnolia Cemetery. Twilight 
Funeral Home is handling arrangements. 




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