Submitted by Patsy Hughes Carter, Mar 30, 2013
This obit was printed in the Teague Chronicle. There are several mistakes. I
don't know if that was done by the paper or the person who transcribed the obit.
I have typed it as I received it.
M. L. May was actually her second husband. Her first husband, Tom Scott was
killed in a logging accident about three weeks after their marriage.
Also, Barnie was most likely her step-son Bonnie Gibson.
The Teague Chronicle
August 25, 1951
Mrs. G. W. Gibson (Sarah Caldonia “Donie” Hancock Gibson)
Dies in Coleman
Funeral Held Here
Funeral services were held for Mrs. G. W. Gibson, Saturday afternoon, August 18,
? o'clock in the chapel of Ham Brother's Funeral Home with Bro. H. L..
McKissack, officiating.
Mrs. Gibson died in Coleman Thursday, August 16.
She was born in Freestone County, January 6, 1883 and married J. G. Gibson after
her first husband, M. L. May died.
Survivors are the following children Mrs. Ruby Beall Coleman; Bill May, Bay
City, Mrs. Manila Goans, Mrs. Odie Hill, Mrs. Marie Harris all of Houston; James
Gibson, Waco and Mrs. Marie Harris also of Houston. Brothers are, Lowery, Joe,
Pete and Davis Hancock and Jim Carroll. Sisters, Mrs. Vera Boykin, San Antonio,
Mrs. Tommie Skin, Hillsboro; Mrs. Emily Richardson, Donie, Janie Dial, Houston,
Mrs. Lucille Ward, Mrs. Francis Wilson and Mrs. Betty Maddox. Step-children,
Barnie, Bernice and Otis Gibson, and Mrs. Dora Fisher. Thirty-one grandchildren
and one great grandchild.
Burial was in Union Cemetery with Ham Brothers in charge.