GIBBS, JOSEPH EDWARDS, March 1, 1887 – September 19, 1962

Funeral services were held at the Malad Second LDS Ward for Joseph Edwards Gibbs, 85, who died September 19, 1962 at the home of a daughter in Hyrum, UT, after a long illness.

Bisihop Max King officiated. Family prayer was offered by Nolan Blaisdell; invocation, John E. Blaisdell; benediction, Pres. Moyle Facer. Speakers were Dr. Thos. W. Richards, Roy Hale, Bishop King. Musical numbers were organ prelude and postlude, Myra Jean John; vocal, Barry Parkinson, Glen Morris, Denton John, Wynn John; vocal solos, Janice Wright and Jenkin L. Palmer. Accompanists were Myra Jean John and Marva Parkinson.

Concluding rites were at the Portage Cemetery where Loyal Harris offered the dedicatory prayer. Flowers were under the direction of the Second Ward Relief Society and the casket bearers were Alan Blaisdell, Elden Hoskins, Rex Hoskins, Theodore Hoskins, Verlo Rose and Grant Wright. Benson Funeral Home was in charge of the services.

Mr. Gibbs was born March 1, 1887 at Portage, Utah, a son of William Henry and Letitia John Gibbs. He married Mary L. Hoskins, October 11, 1898 in the Salt Lake Temple.

He was educated in Porgage schools and was a graduate of Brigham Young College at Logan. An active member of the LDS Church, he was a High Priest at the time of his death. He was a former Malad stake clerk for 35 years and was active in several offices of the Church.

He taught school at Washakie Indian Reservation, East Portage and Woodruff before moving to Malad in 1913. He was a bookkeeper for the Malad Farm Bureau.