Bettie was born June 21, 1920 in Washington, DC, a daughter of the late George Cardinal Gibbons and the late Edith Tippett Gibbons. While she worked for many years alongside her husband as the bookkeeper for their trucking business, her most loved career was that of homemaker and mother. She enjoyed having a garden and took great pleasure in the canning and freezing of her gardens bounty, this was also something she and her husband enjoyed doing together. She was very craft-minded. She was an excellent basket weaver, making baskets out of vines and pine needles, as well as, growing and arranging flowers and making decorative wreaths. However, she was most noted in her community for that of being an artist. Her paintings have been admired by many and one of her pencil drawings of one of the first Deep Creek Church buildings hangs on display in the church today.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Foy Barbee, her son Vincent Barbee, and her sister, Jessie Huntington.
Bettie was born June 21, 1920 in Washington, DC, a daughter of the late George Cardinal Gibbons and the late Edith Tippett Gibbons. While she worked for many years alongside her husband as the bookkeeper for their trucking business, her most loved career was that of homemaker and mother. She enjoyed having a garden and took great pleasure in the canning and freezing of her gardens bounty, this was also something she and her husband enjoyed doing together. She was very craft-minded. She was an excellent basket weaver, making baskets out of vines and pine needles, as well as, growing and arranging flowers and making decorative wreaths. However, she was most noted in her community for that of being an artist. Her paintings have been admired by many and one of her pencil drawings of one of the first Deep Creek Church buildings hangs on display in the church today.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Foy Barbee, her son Vincent Barbee, and her sister, Jessie Huntington.
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