Florence Gibson
MRS. FLORENCE GIBSON ONE OF M’KINNEY’S BEST BELOVED AND CULTURED WOMEN PASSES AWAY
Newspaper, February 15, 1933
WIDOW LATE DR. J. E. GIBSON–UNUSUALLY GIFTED AND CULTURED IN MUSIC–GREAT LOVER CHILDREN, FLOWERS, BIRDS AND DUMB ANIMALS–FUNERAL AT 3 O’CLOCK FRIDAY AFTERNOON.
After several months’ illness, Mrs. Florence Clementson Gibson, relict of the late Dr. John E. Gibson, died at her family residence, corner of West Louisiana and South Church streets, this city, at 8:40 o’clock this Feb. 16 (morning). Her condition had been extremely critical for the past several weeks, and her demise was expected momentarily. She was 76 years, 6 months and 24 days old at death.
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Funeral Friday Afternoon.
Funeral services are to be conducted at 3 o’clock tomorrow (Friday) afternoon at the family residence, 212 West Louisiana street, by her pastor, Dr. Claude M. Simpson of the First Methodist church, assisted by Dr. J. H. Cozad, pastor of the First Baptist church. Undertaker in charge is the Isaac Crouch Funeral home.
Active Pallbearers–Dr. J. C. Erwin, Sr., Dr. E. L. Burton, J. M. Foster, Sr., Roy Caldwell, Mayor Tom W. Perkins, and Dr. Joe W. Largent.
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Native of Illinois.
Miss Florence Clementson was born July 22, 1856, at Marion, in Williamson County, Illinois, being the daughter of the late Col. John Clementson and Mary (Steed) Clementson. When a small child the family moved to Tennessee, where her father, who was a lawyer and a noted orator of his day, lived until after she was grown and married. She was favored with excellent academic and musical schooling advantages. Her natural talent for music was rapidly developed by superior training advantages under the best music teachers of her section of the state at that time. She became highly skilled as a pianist and also as a vocalist, turning her attention towards teaching, both voice and piano–more for the pure love derived from the art of music than from any other motive. For more than forty years she was recognized as one of the most gifted instructors in North Texas in her profession and many times the the demand for pupils to enroll in her classes exceeded her physical power to teach them. For a number of years she was choir leader and organist of the First Methodist church at McKinney, with which she became identified fifty-three years ago. Her connection with any kind of a public program – church, theater, club or rendered at private homes was always featured as an outstanding attraction and was a drawing card for any occasion. For many years she was called upon frequently to provide music for funerals, weddings, and on special church or literary programs and occasions of every kind.
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Newspaper, February 15, 1933
WIDOW LATE DR. J. E. GIBSON–UNUSUALLY GIFTED AND CULTURED IN MUSIC–GREAT LOVER CHILDREN, FLOWERS, BIRDS AND DUMB ANIMALS–FUNERAL AT 3 O’CLOCK FRIDAY AFTERNOON.
After several months’ illness, Mrs. Florence Clementson Gibson, relict of the late Dr. John E. Gibson, died at her family residence, corner of West Louisiana and South Church streets, this city, at 8:40 o’clock this Feb. 16 (morning). Her condition had been extremely critical for the past several weeks, and her demise was expected momentarily. She was 76 years, 6 months and 24 days old at death.
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Funeral Friday Afternoon.
Funeral services are to be conducted at 3 o’clock tomorrow (Friday) afternoon at the family residence, 212 West Louisiana street, by her pastor, Dr. Claude M. Simpson of the First Methodist church, assisted by Dr. J. H. Cozad, pastor of the First Baptist church. Undertaker in charge is the Isaac Crouch Funeral home.
Active Pallbearers–Dr. J. C. Erwin, Sr., Dr. E. L. Burton, J. M. Foster, Sr., Roy Caldwell, Mayor Tom W. Perkins, and Dr. Joe W. Largent.
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Native of Illinois.
Miss Florence Clementson was born July 22, 1856, at Marion, in Williamson County, Illinois, being the daughter of the late Col. John Clementson and Mary (Steed) Clementson. When a small child the family moved to Tennessee, where her father, who was a lawyer and a noted orator of his day, lived until after she was grown and married. She was favored with excellent academic and musical schooling advantages. Her natural talent for music was rapidly developed by superior training advantages under the best music teachers of her section of the state at that time. She became highly skilled as a pianist and also as a vocalist, turning her attention towards teaching, both voice and piano–more for the pure love derived from the art of music than from any other motive. For more than forty years she was recognized as one of the most gifted instructors in North Texas in her profession and many times the the demand for pupils to enroll in her classes exceeded her physical power to teach them. For a number of years she was choir leader and organist of the First Methodist church at McKinney, with which she became identified fifty-three years ago. Her connection with any kind of a public program – church, theater, club or rendered at private homes was always featured as an outstanding attraction and was a drawing card for any occasion. For many years she was called upon frequently to provide music for funerals, weddings, and on special church or literary programs and occasions of every kind.
(rest missing.)
