Willard Leon Gibson
Willard Leon Gibson
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Funeral service for Willard Leon Gibson, 67, a resident of Rock Sound, Eleuthera & formerly of Savannah Sound, Eleuthera, will be held at Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church, Queens Highway, Rock Sound, Eleuthera, on Saturday, June 1, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. Officiating will be Rev. Ellison Greenslade, assisted by Rev. Howard Williamson, Rev. Clifford McKinney, Rev. Thelma Williamson, Rev. Jeffrey Darling & Rev. George Clarke. Interment follows in Yellow Ground Cemetery, Rock Sound, Eleuthera.
Precious memories will always linger in the hearts of his wife: Rev. Althea Gibson: two daughters: Raquel Gibson and Indira Wilson (Tyrino), four adopted children: Remia, Ray, Ryan and Ranold (Khalia) Knowles Jr., two grandsons: Pedro & Perez Demeritte. Five sisters: Clothilda Gibson-Brown (Cecil) of Miami Fla, Margaret Gibson-Small, Rev. Winifred Gibson-Williams (James), Marjorie Culmer (Lorenzo) & Ursula Gibson. Three adopted brothers: Carrington McIntosh (Carlis), Jose Tores (Veronica) & Tom Pooley (Andrea); two sisters in law: Evelyn Deal (Robert), Lillian Nixon, two brothers in law: Leroy Knowles (Prudence) and Ranold Knowles Sr. (0) nieces and Nephews: Denise Billings (Anthony), George, & Keith Gibson, Cherise Sweeting (Alan), Laverne Gardiner (Wendel); Catherine Stubbs, Ghia Scavella, Chaquita & Ledeswanique Nixon, Nicolette Anderson, Desiree (Franklyn) and Zion Moncur, Crystal Knowles, Theressa Dumont, Anna Rahming (Peter), Patrice Thompson (Richard), Kimberley Eldon, Rupert & Ronald Williamson, Ricardo (Michelle), Reece (Tiffany ), Roscoe, & Montello Gibson(Camille), Andrew Williams, Rochelle Cowden (Tony), Dominique (Bernadette) & Davando (Tequelanna) Gibson; Samantha, Sylvester, and Blaise Murphy, Thieast Petty; Schantta White (Derrick), Raymond, Shikara, Jamie, James and Michael Williams; Petetra & Peteria Higgs; Rashad & Shaquille Rolle, Cavin (Fontella), Carl, Corey (Shakera) Knowles, Edwin and Anthony Scavella, Gurth Knowles 111, Delvin Higgs, Richard, Bryan, Andrew, Edward, Francis,Thompson. Including a host of grandnieces & nephews: fifteen aunts: Julia Dotleen Johnson & Lilly Ousley of Miami, Fla, Eurice Grant, Leanna Burchell of Jacksonville, Fl, Araminta Poiter of Miami Florida, Alice Benson, Ada Johnson, Vernica Gibson, Bessie Serrette (Stephen), Eula Sawyer of Freeport, Grand Bahama, Mary Ferguson (Luther), Ivanell Culmer, Edna Albury, Sylvia Collie & Anishka Deal, three uncles: Allan Gibson, Ellerson Gibson (Penny), William Hilton (Theresa) and numerous grandnieces & nephews; Family and friends including: Aubrey Gibson, The Rankine Family of Savannah Sound, Edward Dean, Elvin Taylor & Family, Ellison Greenslade & Family, Rupert “Pete’ Moxey, Rashonda White, Alyah Hall, Leonard & Eileen White, Barbara Fox, Ruth Griffin, Katherine Marsh, Ezra & Shennen Braynen, Gary Ingraham, Earl McPhee, Carlton Clear, Tamara Lampley, Gurth Knowles, Nesley Lucien, the staff of Eastern Public Library, Patricia Saunders, Renaldo Cleare, Elroy Arthur, William Knowles Sr., Michael & Eloise Knowles & Family, the staff of Cape Eleuthera Resort & Marina, The Island School, The Stewart Family, The Symonette Family, Saunders Family, Nixon Family, Sands Family, The Carey Family, The Horton Family, Thompson Family, The Ingraham Family, The nurses and doctors of the Dialysis unit, Accident & Emergency & The Intensive Care Unit of The Princess Margaret Hospital, Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church Family, Doctor Smith and the nurses & staff at the Rock Sound Clinic and the South and Central Eleuthera Community. The Management & Staff of Demeritte’s Funeral Home. I apologize to anyone I may have omitted from the obituary please charge it to my head and not my heart.
Friends may pay their last respects at Demeritte’s Funeral Home, Rock Sound, Eleuthera, on Friday from 12-8:00 p.m. & on Saturday at the church from 9:00 a.m. until service time.
