This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gibbs, Munro, Smith Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UW.2ADE/1683 Message Board Post: The Mendocino Beacon newspaper Mendocino, California Friday 2 Nov. 1973 WILLIAM GIBBS Services were held Saturday, October 27, for William Gibbs, 81, who died Thursday, October 25, in a Fort Bragg hospital after a long illness. A native of Tacoma, Wash., Gibbs lived in the east bay before coming to the Mendocino Coast about 50 years ago. He left the coast and worked for the federal park system for 25 years before returning to Mendocino where he lived for the past 25 years. He was a member of Mendocino Lodge 179 Free and Accepted Masons, Ocean View Chapter 111, Order of Eastern Star; Royal Arch Masons, Mendocino; and Big River Post American Legion. He is survived by his wife, Mabel, Mendocino; a daughter, Cherie June Munro, San Mateo; and a sister, Dorothy Smith, Twentynine Palms. Services were at the Cannarr Fairlee Funeral Home under the auspices of the Masonic Lodge. Burial was at the family plot, Caspar Cemetery. California Death Index 1940 – 1997 Gibbs, William H. – born Oct. 16, 1892 in Washington & died Oct. 25, 1973 in Mendocino Co., California at age 81 yrs.