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FRANK A. GIBSON, JR.

Frank Albert Gibson, Jr., 83, died on Jan. 25,2012.

He was born March 3, 1928, in Bethel to Frank Gibson, Sr., and Thirza Gibson at their house at 55 Gibson Road. This is the house he grew up in and moved back into in 1968 and lived there until he died.

He joined the U.S. Marines in 1947 at the age of 19.

He married Clarice May (Allen) Gibson in Aug. 26, 1950, in Kansas City, Missouri. She pre-deceased him on April 10, 2008.

He worked as an oil burner technician at Whitman's Oil Company in Norway, J.P. Cullinans in Norway, Luce Oil Company in Bethel, Benson's Coal and Oil Company in West Paris, Brooks Bros, Inc., in Bethel, where he was the manager, retiring in 1990. He started Gibson's Orchard in 1968 and ran it until he died.

He was an avid hunter and was a member of the North Waterford Fish and Game Club in the late '50s and early '60s. He was a great poker player and would stop and drop most anything to go to a poker game. He was a past member of the North Waterford Oddfellows Club, a past member of the Bethel Lions Club, a member and a past president of the Mundt-Allen American Legion and a member-at-Large of the V.F.W.

He is survived by four sons, Frank A. Gibson, III, of Ledgeview Living Center in West Paris, George A. Gibson of Bethel, Wilfred A. and Deanna Gibson of Fort Worth, Texas, and Ira A. Gibson of Bethel; one daughter, Jamie A. Gibson, wife Marty of Bradford, Conn.; one grandson, James William Ira Gibson of Orono; five granddaughters, Theresa Gibson of Bethel, Heather Gibson of Pownal, Meagan Gibson of Portland, Kaitlynne of Salt Lake City, Utah, and Elizabeth Gibson of Bethel; two step-grandsons, Jeremy Clement, Jr., of Texas and Joseph and Noelle Clement, Jr.; two step-grandsons, Noah Clement of Texas and Cyrus Mills of Bethel; and one sister, Roberta Pevear of Exeter, N.H.

Donations can be sent to Mundt-Allen American Legion in his name.

A memorial service will be held at Chandler Funeral Home, Bethel, Friday, Jan. 27, at 1 p.m.