Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Gibbs, Charles Brock November 26, 1920
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Norfolk Ledger Dispatch November 27, 1920

                 Charles B. Gibbs Victim Of A Sudden Attack

Charles Brock Gibbs, died suddenly yesterday afternoon at 2:45 o'clock at the 
home of his wife's sister, Mrs. B.B. Bott, 313 Berkley Avenue, as the result of 
a third stroke of paralysis. He was 49 years old.
Mr. Gibbs was stricken more than a year ago and while he had improved and was 
able to get around to a limited degree, he had not been able to give attention 
to business.
Until the time of his first attack, Mr. Gibbs was one of the most active men of 
the community. He conducted a hardware business, was steward and treasurer of 
Memorial Methodist Church, superintendent of the Twelfth Street Mission, a 
branch of Memorial Methodist Church, was a member of the moral uplife work of 
the community, member of the anti-saloon league from his church.
He was director of the Atlantic Permanent Building and Loan Association and the 
People's Bank and Trust Company and associated with several other business 
institutions. 
He was the son of the late Charles and Mary E. Gibbs, who died a few months ago.
He was born in Norfolk, but moved to Berkley with his people many hears ago 
where he had lived since.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Annie Warner Gibbs, one son, Charles Warner 
Gibbs, a sister, Mrs. W.B. Dougherty and two brothers, John M. Gibbs, manager of 
the Fosburgh Lumber Company, Hollister, N.C. and Wallace E. Gibbs of this city.
The body will be taken from his residence in Arlington Avenue to Memorial 
Methodist Episcopal Church, Berkley, tomorrow afternoon from which the funeral 
will be conducted at 3:45 o'clock by the pastor, Rev. S.J. Nattin. The burial 
will be in the family lot in Magnolia Cemetery.
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GIBBS - Suddenly at the home of his wife's sister, Mrs. B.B. Bott, 313 Berkley 
Avenue, Friday afternoon, November 26, 1920, at 2:45 o'clock, CHARLES BROCK 
GIBBS, son of the late Charles and Mrs. Mary E. Gibbs, of Norfolk proper, aged 
49 years and 24 days.
The funeral will be conducted in Memorial Methodist Church TOMORROW (Sunday) 
AFTERNOON at 3:45 o'clock and burial will be in the family lot in Magnolia 
Cemetery. Friends of the family are invited.

Norfolk Ledger Dispatch November 27, 1920

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