Stebbins, Elizabeth M. - Revision history

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 *Bob Stebbins
 *George Stebbins
 ==Education==
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 :[[h:Altamont Enterprise|Altamont Enterprise]] - Thursday, August 30, 2012
-Funeral Information<br>
+Gibbs, Elizabeth "Betty" (Stebbins): Newspaper Obituary and Death Notice
 Home: Arden, NC<br>
 Date of Death: August 25, 2012<br>

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 ==Additional Media==
 Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gibbs and Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Ball attended the wedding of Elizabeth Mary Stebbins and Floyd Gibbs at Nyack on Tuesday.
-:[[Altamont Enterprise]] - Friday, June 4, 1948
+:[[h:Altamont Enterprise|Altamont Enterprise]] - Friday, June 4, 1948
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-Image:{filename}|<center>{caption}</center>
+Image:StebbinsElizabethMaryPortrait.jpg|<center>Elizabeth Mary Stebbins Gibbs</center>
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 *Tom Stebbins
 *Anne Stebbins
 ==Education==
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 — Zach Simeone
 :[[h:Altamont Enterprise|Altamont Enterprise]] - Thursday, August 30, 2012
 ==Additional Media==
 Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gibbs and Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Ball attended the wedding of Elizabeth Mary Stebbins and Floyd Gibbs at Nyack on Tuesday.

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 [[Image:StebbinsElizabethMPortrait.jpg|200px|thumb|right|<center>Elizabeth “Betty” M. Stebbins Gibbs</center>]]
 ==Birth==
-Elizabeth M. Stebbins was born on July 9, 1926, in Saigon, Vietnam, then French Indo China, to missionary parents, Rev. Irving Stebbins and Mrs. Mary Stebbins. Her siblings were:
+Elizabeth Mary Stebbins was born on July 9, 1926, in Saigon, Vietnam, then French Indo China, to missionary parents, Rev. Irving Stebbins and Mrs. Mary Stebbins. Her siblings were:
 *Tom Stebbins
 *Anne Stebbins

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 :[[h:Altamont Enterprise|Altamont Enterprise]] - Thursday, August 30, 2012
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 ==Marriage & Children==
-Elizabeth M. Stebbins married on June 1, 1948 Floyd Gibbs, of Knox.
+Elizabeth M. Stebbins married on June 1, 1948 '''[[Floyd Gibbs]]''' son of '''[[Albert I. Gibbs]]''' and Elizabeth Hiltsley, of [[k:Knox|Knox]].
 Their children were:
 *Esther Gibbs Brisson of Canton, Ga

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-[[Image:defaultimage.jpg|200px|thumb|right|<center>caption</center>]]
+[[Image:defaultimage.jpg|200px|thumb|right|<center>Elizabeth “Betty” M. Stebbins Gibbs</center>]]
 ==Birth==
-Elizabeth M. Stebbins was born on July 9, 1926, in Saigon, Vietnam, then French Indo China, to missionary parents, Rev. Irving Stebbins and Mrs. Mary Stebbins.
+Elizabeth M. Stebbins was born on July 9, 1926, in Saigon, Vietnam, then French Indo China, to missionary parents, Rev. Irving Stebbins and Mrs. Mary Stebbins. Her siblings were:
-==Education== <!--DELETE THIS LINE IF NOT NEEDED-->
+==Education==
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+After arriving in the United States, Elizabeth Stebbins went to high school in Nyack, N.Y. until the family moved to El Cerrito, Calif.
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-==Marriage & Children== <!--DELETE THIS LINE IF NOT NEEDED-->
+==Marriage & Children==
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+Elizabeth M. Stebbins married on June 1, 1948 Floyd Gibbs, of Knox.
 ==Death==
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 “I, myself, went to a boarding school,” her son said. “You learn to be on your own. You kind of grow up on your own. She was very independent growing up. She had a lot of fun in school growing up, too, but she had an independent spirit.”
-In 1942, when World War II was imminent, the Stebbins were the
+In 1942, when World War II was imminent, the Stebbins were the first missionary family to be returned to the United States because of concern for the safety of their seven children. “Her family was in some tough situations that were very dangerous, and came very close to the point of death,” said her son. “During the Tet Offensive, her sister and her family, in Vietnam, were shot to death by the Viet Cong. Five or six of them were trapped in a pit; the Viet Cong just came and shot them in the pit as they were hiding there. But she committed herself to this type of a lifestyle. She fully believed that God would take care of them in whatever they did.”
-After arriving in the United States, Mrs. Gibbs went to high
+After arriving in the United States, Mrs. Gibbs went to high school in Nyack, N.Y. until the family moved to El Cerrito, Calif. Her father worked as a translator at the Office of War Information in San Francisco.
-“She comes from a long line of missionaries,” their son said.
+After graduating from El Cerrito High School in 1945, Mrs. Gibbs worked at an office in the California shipyards before returning to New York State and joining the Nyack Missionary Training Institute, where she met her late husband, Floyd Gibbs, of Knox.
-During their years in Jolo, Mrs. Gibbs translated the Bible’s Book
+“She comes from a long line of missionaries,” their son said. “Growing up overseas, I think it’s one of the first things you think about — doing the same thing your parents did. There came a point in her life where she felt this was what she was supposed to do, so she went to Nyack, and that’s where she met my father.” The couple dated for several years before marrying on June 1, 1948.
-“I grew up over there,” her son said. “It was a very tough ministry.
+The Gibbses pastored a church in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada for two years before heading overseas to begin their missionary work in the Philippines. Their work took them to Jolo, Zamboanga City, and Manila.
-“Her specialty was Filipino food,” he said. “One of the things we
+During their years in Jolo, Mrs. Gibbs translated the Bible’s Book of John into the Tausug language. When they moved to Zamboanga, she ran the Guest Home for Missionaries in Zamboanga City, and later in Manila — “a home where missionaries and guests could stay and be refreshed and encouraged,” her family wrote.
-After their years in the Philippines, Mrs. Gibbs and her family
+“I grew up over there,” her son said. “It was a very tough ministry. They worked among the Muslims in the Philippines, and they had very few convents. The Muslims were very close-minded to any other faith, and it was very unsafe growing up, a lot of battles between the government and the Muslims. We had a lot of hairy experiences. I never saw the bullets, but I heard the bullets from our truck.” He remembers his mother’s talent as a singer, piano player, and cook.
-While living in upstate New York, Mrs. Gibbs ministered with her
+“Her specialty was Filipino food,” he said. “One of the things we all liked was lumpia. It’s kind of like an egg roll.” She also made pancit, a noodle dish; Filipino fried rice; and suman, sticky rice wrapped in a banana leaves.
-“No matter what, she was a very upbeat person,” said Philip Gibbs.
+After their years in the Philippines, Mrs. Gibbs and her family returned to Knox to care for her in-laws.
-Mrs. Gibbs is survived by their three children: Esther Gibbs Brisson
+“No matter what, she was a very upbeat person,” said Philip Gibbs. “Her faith was very strong.”
 Her grandson, Joshua, died in 1989, when he was 3-and-a-half. Four
-of her siblings died before her: Harriet, Ruth, Bob, and George.
+Mrs. Gibbs is survived by their three children: Esther Gibbs Brisson of Canton, Ga; Philip Gibbs of Ballston Lake; Irving Gibbs of Mills River, N.C.; and their spouses. Also surviving are her brother, Tom; her sister, Anne; nine grandchildren, and a great-granddaughter.
 A wake will be held at Fredendall Funeral Home in Altamont on
-Saturday, Sept. 2, at 10 a.m., with the funeral service to follow, and
+Her grandson, Joshua, died in 1989, when he was 3-and-a-half. Four of her siblings died before her: Harriet, Ruth, Bob, and George. A wake will be held at Fredendall Funeral Home in Altamont on Saturday, Sept. 2, at 10 a.m., with the funeral service to follow, and internment at [[k:Knox Cemetery|Knox Cemetery]].
 — Zach Simeone
 ==Additional Media==

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+__NOTOC__
 [[Image:defaultimage.jpg|200px|thumb|right|<center>caption</center>]]
 ==Birth==
+Elizabeth M. Stebbins was born on July 9, 1926, in Saigon, Vietnam, then French Indo China, to missionary parents, Rev. Irving Stebbins and Mrs. Mary Stebbins.
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 ==Death==
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+Elizabeth “Betty” M. Stebbins Gibbs died on Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012, at the Oaks of Sweeten Creek Nursing Home in Arden, N.C. She was 86.
-KNOX — Elizabeth “Betty” M. Stebbins Gibbs devoted her life to
+==Obituary==
-teaching her faith as a missionary, near and far, even when it put
+KNOX — Elizabeth “Betty” M. Stebbins Gibbs devoted her life to teaching her faith as a missionary, near and far, even when it put her in harm’s way.
-“She was a very giving person, always trying to help out,” said
+“She was a very giving person, always trying to help out,” said Philip Gibbs, one of her three children, whom she raised in the Philippines. “She tried to be on top of stuff all the time, and she tried to be a positive influence on people.”
-She died on Saturday, Aug. 25,
+She died on Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012, at the Oaks of Sweeten Creek Nursing Home in Arden, N.C. She was 86.
-Mrs. Gibbs was born on July
+Mrs. Gibbs was born on July 9, 1926, in Saigon, Vietnam, then French Indo China, to missionary parents, Rev. Irving Stebbins and Mrs. Mary Stebbins. In 1932, at age 6, she entered a children’s boarding school in Dalat, Vietnam, where she spent nine months a year separated from her family.
-“I, myself, went to a boarding
+“I, myself, went to a boarding school,” her son said. “You learn to be on your own. You kind of grow up on your own. She was very independent growing up. She had a lot of fun in school growing up, too, but she had an independent spirit.”
 In 1942, when World War II was imminent, the Stebbins were the