Edward Everett Gibbens

September 27, 1889 – June 1, 1961

Edward Everett Gibbens, 72, of 2815 NW 33, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma died Thursday, June 1, 1961.

Born in Oberlin, Kansas on September 27, 1889, he was the son of Edward E. and Jessie Olive (Murphy) Gibbens. He came to Perry as a child and graduated from Perry high school in 1906. Following his graduation he continued his education at Epworth University, Oklahoma City. During the summers he worked for a mining company in Tombstone, Arizona, and saved up enough money to take a general business course at the Gem City business college at Quincy, Illinois.

Everett was employed by the Burlington Railroad Co. at Hannibal, Missouri until the end of 1909 when he accepted a position as stenographer with a law firm at Pawhuska, Oklahoma, followed by employment in Oklahoma City at the offices of Smith & Campbell, attorneys at law.

On November 20, 1910, he and Willa May Hoffman were married in Perry. They made their home in Oklahoma City, where they were blessed with three sons. Everett was affiliated with the Everest, McKenzie, Gibbens and Vaught legal firm. In the last three years of his career the firm consisted of Gibbens and Vaught.

He was a member of the Wesley Methodist Church and Siloam Chapter of Masonic Lodge.

Preceding him in death were his parents and one son, Robert Jean Gibbens.

Survivors include: his wife of 50 years, Willa; two sons, E. E. Gibbens, Jr., Houston, Texas and Dr. W. N. Gibbens, NW 16 and Eagle Lane, Oklahoma City; and a sister, Mrs. Hortense Miekle, Long Beach, California.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in Guardian Funeral Home, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Burial will be in Fairlawn Cemetery, Oklahoma City.