Biographies and Obituaries
In loving memory
Miss Lillian Marie Gibbs
Died February 14, 1920
Miss Lillian Gibbs, twenty-one years old, one of Washington's most
winsome and popular young women, daughter of Benjamin L. Gibbs, died
at 7 o'clock Saturday evening at her father's home, 407 Southwest Second
Street. She was stricken two years ago with pulmouary tuberculosis, which
caused her death after the long and valiant struggle against uneven odds.
Besides her father , she leaves two brothers--Homer, with the American
Army in Siberia and Fred of this city. Born in Washington, Miss Gibbs
spent her entire life here. She was graduated from the local high school
with the class of 1916, and was employed in the office of the Washington
Water, Light & Power company when she took ill. She was a devout
member of the First United Brethren church and took an active part in
church activities until her health failed. Her mother Fannie Tucker Gibbs,
died in October 1917. Funeral services from the United Brethren church
at 2 o'clock, Tuesday afternoon. Burial in Oak Grove Cemetery.