On Thursday evening, March 9, 1995 at 8:00pm, Brother Jerry Mack Gibbs departed this life at Mercy Baptist Hospital. His soul winged its fligh from this world we know to a place of eternal rest.
Jerry Mack Gibbs was born May 29. 1920 to the late Luther and Martha McDuffie Gibbs in Adams County, Mississippi. He was baptized at an early age in Natchez, Mississippi. An industrious and hardworking young man, he joined the United States Army and after serving four years he moved to New Orleans, Louisiana.
He was employed by the New Orleans Steamship International Longshoremen Group and belonged to ILA Local Union 3000. He also worked part-time as a taxi-cab driver for Logan's Cab Co.
He was preceded in death by his parents Luther Gibbs and Martha Gibbs Barnes, four sister, Marie G. Crawford, Mattie G. Boones, Christian G. Young and Joan G. DeVoe, one brother, Arthur Gibbs and one stepson, Fredrick Douglas Melancon.
H leaves to cherish his loving memory his loving wife, Eleanor Dorothy Cadwell Gibbs, a brother Otha Gibbs, father and stepfather to Jerry Gibbs, Jr., Janice Shaw, Douglas Ann Thompson and Alvin Melancon and a host of grandchildren, niences, nephews, relatives and friends.
Jerry Mack Gibbs was born May 29. 1920 to the late Luther and Martha McDuffie Gibbs in Adams County, Mississippi. He was baptized at an early age in Natchez, Mississippi. An industrious and hardworking young man, he joined the United States Army and after serving four years he moved to New Orleans, Louisiana.
He was employed by the New Orleans Steamship International Longshoremen Group and belonged to ILA Local Union 3000. He also worked part-time as a taxi-cab driver for Logan's Cab Co.
He was preceded in death by his parents Luther Gibbs and Martha Gibbs Barnes, four sister, Marie G. Crawford, Mattie G. Boones, Christian G. Young and Joan G. DeVoe, one brother, Arthur Gibbs and one stepson, Fredrick Douglas Melancon.
H leaves to cherish his loving memory his loving wife, Eleanor Dorothy Cadwell Gibbs, a brother Otha Gibbs, father and stepfather to Jerry Gibbs, Jr., Janice Shaw, Douglas Ann Thompson and Alvin Melancon and a host of grandchildren, niences, nephews, relatives and friends.
On Thursday evening, March 9, 1995 at 8:00pm, Brother Jerry Mack Gibbs departed this life at Mercy Baptist Hospital. His soul winged its fligh from this world we know to a place of eternal rest.
Jerry Mack Gibbs was born May 29. 1920 to the late Luther and Martha McDuffie Gibbs in Adams County, Mississippi. He was baptized at an early age in Natchez, Mississippi. An industrious and hardworking young man, he joined the United States Army and after serving four years he moved to New Orleans, Louisiana.
He was employed by the New Orleans Steamship International Longshoremen Group and belonged to ILA Local Union 3000. He also worked part-time as a taxi-cab driver for Logan's Cab Co.
He was preceded in death by his parents Luther Gibbs and Martha Gibbs Barnes, four sister, Marie G. Crawford, Mattie G. Boones, Christian G. Young and Joan G. DeVoe, one brother, Arthur Gibbs and one stepson, Fredrick Douglas Melancon.
H leaves to cherish his loving memory his loving wife, Eleanor Dorothy Cadwell Gibbs, a brother Otha Gibbs, father and stepfather to Jerry Gibbs, Jr., Janice Shaw, Douglas Ann Thompson and Alvin Melancon and a host of grandchildren, niences, nephews, relatives and friends.
Jerry Mack Gibbs was born May 29. 1920 to the late Luther and Martha McDuffie Gibbs in Adams County, Mississippi. He was baptized at an early age in Natchez, Mississippi. An industrious and hardworking young man, he joined the United States Army and after serving four years he moved to New Orleans, Louisiana.
He was employed by the New Orleans Steamship International Longshoremen Group and belonged to ILA Local Union 3000. He also worked part-time as a taxi-cab driver for Logan's Cab Co.
He was preceded in death by his parents Luther Gibbs and Martha Gibbs Barnes, four sister, Marie G. Crawford, Mattie G. Boones, Christian G. Young and Joan G. DeVoe, one brother, Arthur Gibbs and one stepson, Fredrick Douglas Melancon.
H leaves to cherish his loving memory his loving wife, Eleanor Dorothy Cadwell Gibbs, a brother Otha Gibbs, father and stepfather to Jerry Gibbs, Jr., Janice Shaw, Douglas Ann Thompson and Alvin Melancon and a host of grandchildren, niences, nephews, relatives and friends.
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