Gibson, Jimmie DeWitt

CARTHAGE - Services for Jimmie DeWitt Gibson, 82, of Carthage, will be 
11 a.m. Tuesday, May 22, 2007, at Hawthorn Funeral Home Chapel with 
Brother Harry LaGrone officiating. Interment will be in Kilgore City 
Cemetery. Mrs. Gibson died May 19, 2007, in Kilgore.

Born March 27, 1925, in Panola County, she worked as head seamstress 
and supervisor for Nardis of Dallas, Laird Middle School for Kilgore 
ISD, and was a longtime member of Forest Home Baptist Church in Kilgore. 
Survivors include her son, John DeWitt; and daughter, Sharon Bush. 
Visitation will be 6-8 p.m. today, May 21, 2007, at the funeral home.

Published in the Longview News-Journal on 5/21/2007.

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Gibson, Jimmie DeWitt   	

CARTHAGE - Services for Jimmie DeWitt Gibson, 82, of Carthage, will be 
11 a.m. today, May 22, 2007, at Hawthorn Funeral Home Chapel with Brother 
Harry LaGrone officiating. Interment will be in Kilgore City Cemetery 
under the direction of Hawthorn Funeral Home. Mrs. Gibson died May 19, 
2007, in Kilgore.

Mrs. Jimmie Cloteal Gibson was born March 27, 1925, in Panola County, 
Texas, to William and Cammie Leona McNeese Wimberley. She graduated from 
Leverett's Chapel schools in rural Rusk County. Jimmie worked as head 
seamstress and supervisor for Nardis of Dallas and later Laird Middle 
School for Kilgore ISD.

She married Delbert L. DeWitt, who preceded her in death in 1974, and 
later married Joe Gibson who died in 2005.

Mrs. Gibson placed her Lord and family above all else. She was a longtime 
member of the Forest Home Baptist Church in Kilgore. Jimmie's legacy was 
loving her family and caring for many others in their time of need. She 
will be missed by the many friends whose lives she touched.

She is also preceded in death by her siblings, Cammie Jean Burkett, Wilma 
Lawhorn, Christene Kees, Herman Bagley, Waymon Bagley, Gertrude Sistrunk 
and Lillian Jernigan.

She is survived by her son, John DeWitt and wife, Gingie, of Kilgore; 
daughter, Sharon Bush and husband, Marlin, of Rehobeth; grandchildren, 
Staci Davis and husband, Mark, of Carthage, Amy Clinton and husband, Don, 
of Snap community, Kiley Schumacher and husband, Shawn, of Carthage, and 
Cody DeWitt and wife, Ray, Jean of Kilgore; and great-grandchildren, 
Keaton, Conner and Cammie Elizabeth Davis, Cole and Cooper Clinton, Si 
and Zane Schumacher and Brycen DeWitt.

Pallbearers will be Mark Davis, Don Clinton, Shawn Schumacher, Charlie 
Lawhorn, Edward Murphy and Melvin Minter.

Memorials may be made to Adams Cemetery Association.

Published in the Longview News-Journal on 5/22/2007.