Submitted by: Dan Rich

James Gibson

Sept. 12, 1912 - Feb. 8, 1994

South Bend Tribune 2/10/1994

OSCEOLA - Services for James Gibson, 81, of 55655 Krause Road, who died at 11:25 p.m. Tuesday in Americana Healthcare Center, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in Chapel Hill Funeral Home. Burial will be in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens. Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday in the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society.

Mr. Gibson was a section hand for New York Central Railroad and B & 0 Railroad and retired in 1970 from Toppers Mobile Home Manufacturing Co., Mottville, Mich. He was born Sept. 12, 1912, in Carter County, Ky., and lived in Osceola for 50 years, coming from LaGrange.

On Jan. 17, 1940, in LaGrange County, he married Amy Hart. She survives, with four daughters, Bonnie Lewandowski of Wolcottville, Constance A. Cowan and Rebecca Chambers, both of South Bend, and Rita Shoemaker of Elkhart; 16 grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; a sister, Clara Gibson Tallmidge of Mishawaka; and a brother, Forrest of Mishawaka. He was a member of Jehovah's Witnesses, Mishawaka Conseravation Club, and Moose Lodge.