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Retired SMSgt Gerald Edward Gibbs

BOSSIER CITY, LA - Services for Retired SMSgt Gerald Edward Gibbs, 62, will be held at 1 p.m., Monday, February 15, 1999 at Rose-Neath's Bossier Chapel. Officiating will be Bill Alley and Chaplain at Barksdale Air Force Base. Burial will be in Rose-Neath Cemetery with full military honors.

SMSgt Gibbs passed away Friday, February 12, 1999 after a lengthy illness. "Gomer" proudly served his country for over 25 years as a Boom Operator in the USAF Reserves. He is a veteran of the Vietnam and Gulf Wars, flying over 250 combat missions and receiving numerous medals throughout his career in the military. From 1978 to 1985, he was owner operator of three Pap-Paws Fried Chicken Stores in the Bossier Shreveport area. A lover of airplanes, he also earned his private pilot licenses and became a flight instructor. He was a kind and generous man always putting the needs of others before himself. He will be greatly missed by all his friends and relatives.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Gibbs; brother, Garnett Gibbs; sister, Judy Gibbs Wiggins; and son-in-law, Tracy Edward Hendrix.

He leaves behind his devoted wife of 41 years, Barbara McBride Gibbs; three daughters, Gail Russell and husband, Tom of West Memphis, AK, Ginger Bigby and husband, Walt of Bossier City, LA, Sandra Hostman and husband, Chuck; seven grandchildren; brother, Joseph Gibbs and wife, Linda. Pallbearers will be Keith McBride, Craig McBride, Michael McBride, Zachary Hendrix, Hendrix, Billy LeBleu,
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Special thanks to the Willis-Knighton Bossier 3rd Floor and CCU Staffs, Doctors, Ted Warren and Danny Payne for the excellent care of our father, and to the O.R., Day Surgery, friends and co-workers for the support of our family.
Memorials may be made to St. Judes Children's Research Hospital.

Rose-Neath Funeral Home
Bossier Chapel, 746-2543

(Published in The Shreveport Times on February 14, 1999)

Gerald married Barbara Ruth McBride 14 Sep 1957, Orange, Orange County, Texas, USA. Barbara (daughter of Thomas Joseph McBride and Leoria Mae LeBleu) was born 18 Nov 1941, Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, USA; died 25 Jun 2014, Bossier City, Bossier Parish, Louisiana, USA; was buried 27 Jun 2014, Rose-Neath Cemetery - Bossier City, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet]

1. G.L. Gibbs
2. Ginger Sue Gibbs was born 27 Feb 1960, Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, USA; died 28 Jul 2023, Bossier City, Bossier Parish, Louisiana, USA.
3. S.D. Gibbs